WF 09/08/2023 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Happy Friday!

PREK1 kiddos came to the sign in board where they worked with shapes, specifically hexagons! They had to pull out the hexagon from the bowl that they were given. Next, they had to find the trapezoids and figure out how many trapezoids made one hexagon. After they figured that out, they had to pull out all of the triangles from their bowl and figure out how many triangles it took to make one hexagon.

K.4.1 Identify and describe geometric objects: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, sphere, and cube. (2006 standard)

PREK2: Today at group we read the story “Triangle” which is about the two characters “Triangle” and “Square” who interact in the story. We noticed as we went though the book that everything in triangles home was shaped like a triangle and everything in squares home was shaped like a square. After the story we chose our favorite character and used a sticky not to place our name under the character we chose.

At our welcome activity this morning we explored spheres and cubes. We talked about how they are three-dimensional shapes. We saw how a sphere can roll like a ball and that cubes can be stacked like blocks. Some friends worked on constructing the cube using six square magnetic tiles.

In the art center we worked on shape prints. Older friends used a clip board and shape check list to go around the classroom and hunt for shapes. They brought the shapes to the art table in a basket and used them to create a shape print. Younger friends chose from classroom objects of different shapes in the middle of the table working on asking for the shapes by name and identifying them correctly before they printed them.