Happy Monday!
After reading, ‘Tacky and the Winter Games’ in K group, we played one round of shape bingo! This week, we’ll be working on identifying various 2-D and 3-D shapes. I gave the group a description of the shape I was referring to and friends worked together to identify it! Once they did, they found the shape on their bingo board and covered it with a colored counter.
K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.
In PREK2, the focus was on lowercase letters versus uppercase letters. Miss Kim wrote her group member’s names in all uppercase letters and friends worked together to write their name in lowercase letters. We find that lowercase letters are more challenging to write when children are first starting out because there are move curves to the letters as opposed to uppercase letters which are made up of mostly straight lines.
Each kindergartener came up to the island where they signed in to start their day. There were a few steps that they had to follow to complete their journal:
1. Trace the lines of each shape with a marker (some counted as they did this!).
2. Identify the shape.
3. Kid spell or work with a teacher to write the names of the shapes.
K.4.1: Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube.
K.W.2.1: Write most uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet, correctly shaping and spacing.
Last week, an art project was started about one of our favorite topics as of late: eels!
Today, friends took turns painting the eel.
Before Franklin started painting, he got out a science book and turned to the glossary that he learned about last week. He was able to find ‘eels’ and figure out what page the information he was looking for was on.
Other engaging activities were taking place throughout the morning.
Daniel and Evie used small lights to observe glass figurines. They made comments to each other based on what they saw.
Our younger friends have been frequenting the art table quite often lately! They love to create pictures for family members, teachers, or peers. Children’s drawing skills are continuing to grow and we love to watch the process children go through as they start putting their thoughts down onto paper.
Breakfast– Whole wheat bagel with butter and fresh pears.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with butter and kidney/black beans, banana, and fresh carrots/tomatoes/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/cherry tomatoes.
Have a wonderful night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 1/18