WF, 9/1/2022 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

Two of our kindergarteners completed sign in before heading outside. They were asked to count a specific number of colored puff balls using their one to one correspondence skills: eight yellow balls, seven red balls, and eleven blue balls. One of our kindergarteners ended up having nine red balls and said aloud, “Oh I have nine red balls. I need to get rid of two.”—doing subtraction without even knowing it! Smile

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

We read, ‘The Gruffalo’ in K/PREK1 group. Before we started reading, I asked the group to pay attention to the characters in the story because I was going to be asking about them when we started our activity. This lead into a quick conversation about what ‘characters’ are in a story.

After the story was done, children worked together to name all of the characters in the book. We started going through each character to see how many syllables each word had. James, who was gone on Tuesday when we did our first syllable lesson, asked what syllables were. Since he wasn’t here for our syllable group lesson, friends gave him a quick crash course using our names to explain what syllables are! It was a great re-teaching experience where children became the teacher. We learned that most of the characters have one syllable in their name!

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

Rowan showed interest in gems and rocks earlier in the week so Miss Kim went down into the basement and brought up the rock collections. Children were able to use a magnifying glass to look closely at each rock. As they looked at a specific rock, children were told the names of each rock as well as where they came from—most came from volcanoes!

It was a beautiful morning! We’ve been spoiled with great weather the last few weeks. A group of older boys gathered in the housekeeping area where they used a collection of nature including mulch and purple flowers.