Happy Monday!

Today, our class for the school year became complete! Ellie joined our classroom today after being over at Wee Wee! We are so excited to have Ellie in our classroom and round out our 2020 crew.

This week, we are kicking off our MACK curriculum. This is our second full year of implementing this curriculum into our daily routine. MACK stands for Mindful Attention with Curiosity and Kindness Curriculum. Our Mindful Attention with Curiosity and Kindness curriculum provides teachers with direct-teaching learning goals in 5 areas over a 12 week cycle. To read up on this ‘newer’ addition to our curriculum, you can read up on it here (plus look at our ever growing list of awesome books!)

https://weefriendskids.com/about-us/program-philosophy/

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This week’s MACK is:

Children will learn that mindfulness involves paying attention on purpose in the present moment with curiosity and kindness. Children will use their sense to describe what they are feeling and seeing in the world around them.

In K group, we read ‘The Listening Walk’ which speaks to listening instead of talking. When you stop talking, you can hear much more going on around you. Afterwards, each friend got the chance to come to the chalkboard and count the numbers of items on a specific paper. For example. Mack came up to the chalkboard and counted 4 diamonds. After he counted the four diamonds, he found the number 4 and tapped it above the picture that displayed ‘4’.

In our kindergarten curriculum, we’ll focus on the following FAB’s this week:

K.RF.2.4: Identify and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

K.RF.3.2: Orally segment words into syllables.

K.NS.4: Perform one-to-one correspondence tasks.

K.NS.5: Count up to 20 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle. Count up to 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

In PREK2, Miss Kim’s group drew lines from a picture to the number the picture represented!

The rest of our day revolved around lovely piano sounds, art creations for special people in our lives, and WONDEROUS outside time.

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and fresh strawberries.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce and melted shredded cheese, fresh pineapple/apples, and fresh peppers/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh strawberries.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/peppers.

Have a wonderful evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 8/31