WF, 8/23/2022 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

This week, we’ll be focusing on community helpers in K/PREK1 group. After reading, ‘Strictly No Elephants’, I brought up the term ‘community helper’ and everyone was quite unsure of what that meant. So, we identified what the word ‘community’ meant first.

Afterwards, we talked about ten community helpers that we run into in our daily lives. Each helpers name was written on the board and we worked together to come up with a way that they help us and our community. A few friends shared personal stories associated with a specific community helper. James, who has a dog at home, talked specifically about the importance of a veterinarian because his dog hurt her leg so she’ll need surgery.

Throughout the week, we’ll identify more helpers that make up our community.

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

Our PREK2 friends have been enjoying a daily, structured journal time. This allows them to work on the letters of their name and putting words to their drawing with the help of Miss Kim!

We started our yearly art project that we’ll display in the reading area! We used two complimentary colors, teal and a burnt orange, along with white. There were a couple steps to this project.

The first step was to place several dots of each color around the canvas. Some friends chose to spread out the paint dots while others chose to put the dots closely together. Rowan chose to put the paint dots on top of each other!

Once the dots were placed on the canvas, children took a squeegee and ran the colors together. Each friend took the squeegee and placed it at the top of the canvas and pulled the squeegee towards them and the bottle of their canvas. This allowed the colors to run together and made every single canvas unique based on the amount of dots and how the squeegee was used. We can’t wait to get them hung in the reading area!