WF, 1/11/2021 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Happy Monday!

In K group, we read ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’. We focused on syllables as we read aloud six of the seven dwarfs and placed them in the appropriate syllable category. We read aloud six of the seven dwarf names and friends worked together to figure out the missing dwarfs name which happened to be the only one syllable name!

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

In PREK2, children worked on matching a group of items to the correct number. Each group member counted items on their own paper and after they were done counting, they connected it to the corresponding number!

The rest of our day was full of stories, puppet play, and exploring the art table. It was a day full of dialogue between peers, arguments and frustration, and ultimately, cooperation and understanding.

A short but good Teacher Tom blog from the other day caught my eye: ‘I Was a Different Person Then’. Isn’t that the truth for all of us! This quote resonated with me and I wanted to share it:

“After all, it’s our business, this process of human change, which is another way of saying growth or learning. We aren’t carpenters building children. We don’t fill them like one would empty vessels. We’re more like gardeners tending plants: we keep them safe, make sure they get food and water, pull the weeds, add a bit of fertilizer every now and then, and otherwise watch them change day after day after day. When things go awry, we make a study, we check with colleagues and experts, we strive to determine exactly who they are right now and what they need, then we make alterations to the child’s environment, but whatever happens, we don’t change the child any more than we educate them: they ultimately must change themselves.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-was-different-person-then.html