Welcome to May!

This week, our FAB focuses on how things move. The three kindergarteners had to take four vehicles and sort them from slowest to fastest for their sign in.

In K/PREK1 group, we read, ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ which focuses on the two main characters leading very different lives. The tortoise moves extremely slow in everything he does while the hare moves fast, almost rushing through various moments in her life. At the end of the story, they come to an understanding that sometimes its okay to move at different paces.

Science: K.3.2 Investigate that things move in different ways, such as fast, slow, etc.

Lady bugs were very popular today.  Everyone observed the lady bug larvae and noticed that they had grown bigger over the weekend.  We watched the lady bug larvae with a flashlight as they crawled around their habitat.  Some of us got to see them eat and drink.  Several friends drew pictures of our lady bug friends after watching them.  We hung the drawings around the lady bug habitat so we could talk about each others work. 

We created some lady bug play areas afterward.  We made a make believe interactive habitat where we could place tiny plastic lay bugs in moss and sticks.  We could catch them and place them in jars, count them and touch them all we wanted, which we have been very mindful not to do with the real ones. 

Some of us had been asking to make “smash paintings” or “symmetry paintings”, where we paint half of the paper and fold it over to make a symmetrical design.  A friend had done this with glitter glue and we had talked about the idea of smash paintings then.  We were offered this option in art center today and shown how to do it.  We talked about the word symmetry as well as were got to see a very good example of what this word means. 

Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Homemade macaroni and cheese with whole wheat noodles, fresh pineapple, and fresh carrots/pepper.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with banana.

Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.

Have a lovely night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2023-05-01