WF, 5/24/2021 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Happy Monday!

**Reminder: Wee Friends is closed Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day.

We started this week by talking about maps and globes, specifically how they are different! We focused only on maps today during K group. I held up the map of the United States and the map of the world.

When the map of the United States was our focus, friends shared where they’ve been! “Where’s Kentucky?! We went there and I got to ride a horse!”

We identified the states Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, South Carolina, and Wyoming (since those are the states that friends have visited recently!)

Sophia also asked, “Where’s Indy? Because I’ve been there!”

The term ‘capitals’ were brought up and the fact that each state has a capital.

Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.

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Last week, calendars were a major focus in both K group and PREK2 group. We have a calendar in the science area that children often reference when they want to know something date related. A small group of boys were looking at the calendar this morning and Franklin asked, ‘Is it really C’s birthday today?!”

When you make something like a calendar available all the time, authentic and natural learning experiences take place. They talked about the month and how May is almost over and then June will start!

This morning was one of those mornings where children utilized any and all shaded areas of our outdoor environment. Thankfully, regardless of the time of day, we have a couple options for shade if children need to take a break and cool off.