WF 08/28/2023 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Happy Monday!

**Reminder: Wee Friends is closed next Monday, September 4th for Labor Day. Thanks!

In PREK1 group, we read, ‘Blueberries for Sal’ which brought up the conversation of one to one correspondence, or counting! In the story, Sal and her mom went blueberry picking and they put one blueberry into their buckets at a time. After we read the story, each friend came up to the bench or stayed on their mat where they were given a pile of colorful counters. They had to place the counters out in front of them in a line and using their index finger, count them!

K.NS.4: Perform one to one correspondence skills.

PREK2: At small group today we read the book “alphabet adventure” working on our letter recognition.

It was an “aquatic” morning! Today we got to meet out new classroom Tadpoles! We will be observing them as they complete their stages of metamorphosis over the coming weeks. We spent some time looking at our life cycle cards and talking about the stages of change the tadpole goes through. We could arrange the model tadpoles in order and match them to the cards. Next we started our “Tadpole Journals”. We focused on making “observations”. A couple of older friends were able to verbalize this as meaning “looking closely”. We talked about descriptive words and how they help us record our observations. One friend said that the tadpole looked green and black and that it had a “Swishy tail”. Another fiends noticed that it had a round head. An older friend chose to draw the life cycle in the front of her journal, labeling each developmental stage. A younger friend drew the tadpole with all of its “brothers and sisters”. After observation journaling, we got to use our imaginations to play in a “frog and tadpole terrarium.”