WF 08/31/2023 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 group came to the sign in board this morning where they drew a card from the bottom that had a picture diagram on it. They had to count the number of items in the diagram and match it to the number on the board. Not only did this allow them to work on their one to one correspondence skills but also their number identification up to ten.

K.NS.5: Count up to 20 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle. Count up to 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

PREK2: Today we read the story “My Heart is like a Zoo”. Afterward, we each took turns naming our favorite animal from the story.

We enjoyed a close up look at the tadpoles today in a white observation tray where we could see them very well. We were able to make more observations noticing more colors and even spots on the tadpoles. We noticed they swam in circles around the edges. Someone said that frogs eat bugs. We got a chance to talk about how the tadpoles are different from their parents in many ways…in how they look, breath and what they eat. We learned that tadpoles eat algae. We learned that algae is a plant with no stem and no leaves. We observed algae in the aquarium where the tadpoles live. Many of us felt that it did not look like a plant that they had seen. It was something new!

Many of us took on the cheerio stacking challenge. Younger friends used their fine motor skills to make a stack as tall as they could. Older friends also counted as high as they could as they stacked. They looked for the number tiles to represent what number they reached in their tallest stack. This way, a variety of ages and developmental levels could be met where, to be challenged in different ways by the same activity.