WF, 8/23/2023 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

**Please look for Tami’s email about announcements and reminders later this afternoon. Here are two items on the email we want to make sure everyone sees today. Thanks!

1. In the WF classroom, we have cups and water available all day long. Please do NOT leave a water bottle at WF for your child. (Exception: if we have already spoken with you about using a water bottle for your child, please continue to bring one, but all others will be sent home.)

2. Backpacks take up a lot of space in your child’s cubby that will be needed as soon as winter coats are necessary. You are welcome to use the grocery bags (located in an empty cubby) to take home art and other items and skip the backpacks.

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In PREK1 group today, we read ‘The Paperboy’ which is a story about a young boy who has a job as a paperboy! We talked about how paperboys/mailperson’s help us. Afterwards, we read seven community helper jobs on the chalkboard. Then, I read one description at a time and children worked together to share which job that description matched!

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.

PREK2: At group time we read the book “Germs are not for Sharing”. As we read we practiced hygiene lessons like how to cough and sneeze into your elbow, how to wash hands thoroughly, when we wash our hands and so on. We got to talk about why we do these things keeping our bodies and our classroom safe.

In journal group we got name sticks and worked on picking out our own name from the pile before we spelled it out in our journal.

In the art center we explored a colored water activity, using our color mixing skills to create hues. Next we used an eye dropper to fill a variety of shape trays with our colors creating visually interesting patterns and color block art work. A few friends got into making alternating AB patterns with their colors instead of mixing them.