WF, 11/30/2022 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

Kindergarteners used a globe to aid in their sign in this morning. Questions like, “What does the blue represent on the globe?” were asked as well as the country that we live in. This lead to a conversation about the differences between South Bend (city), Michiana (area around us), and United States (country). We used the globe to help us answer these questions!

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

During our K/PREK1 group, we read a few pages from the book ‘Here and There’ which focuses on different traditions and the makeup of various countries around the world (it’s a great book to have to compare and contrast how we live verses how other cultures/people live!). We focused on a few pages that dealt with how a few other cities and countries look such as Hong Kong and Bangladesh (sky scrappers were a big topic with this group once it was brought up!). Before we read about these cities and countries, we used a world map to see just where they are compared to Indiana!

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It was a game type of morning! Our older preschoolers and kindergarteners love to play games and there are many benefits to games at this age. Through games, children learn how to follow rules and explore cooperation.

Daniel and Bo played a few rounds of Uno which allowed them to work on their math skills as well! Bo commented, “I have three cards here and two cards over here so I have five cards total left!”

Memory games can get quite competitive in our classroom but children do a great job of cheering their peers on! Maggie, Daniel, and Bo played a round of memory and it ended up being a very close game.

Rowan and a kindergarten peer played a matching rhyming game. The objective was to find the rhyming matching images and see if they go together. They did a fantastic job at encouraging one another.

Shortly before lunch, a few children asked to make bead bracelets! This is one of our favorite fine motor activities. Children made a few bracelets and some even incorporated patterns using colors into their bracelet.