WF 09/14/2023 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 group sign in focused on the book, ‘Duck In The Truck’. They had to match the author’s words that I gave them to the illustration in the book. Earlier in the week, we started talking about authors and illustrators and what their job entails. Today, we specifically talked about illustration and how the words the author writes should match the illustrations that the illustrator draws/creates.

K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

PREK2: This week Today we read the story “Calm Down Cool Down” which teaches about what we can do to help us calm our bodies when we experience difficult emotions. We talked about what might happen to make us feel difficult emotions and what we could do instead of hitting or pushing. At the end of the book we made a list of calming techniques that we remembered from the story that might help us calm our bodies. Some of us recalled what we heard in the story. If we had trouble remembering we pointed to the pictures of what we might do. Some friends came up with other things they did to calm down like getting a hug from Mom. If you would like to learn more about out MACK curriculum which focuses on self regulation follow the link https://weefriendskids.com/about-us/program-philosophy/

This morning was a hands on exploration of sunflower science. Everyone dove into a closer look at the sunflower heads which were full of seeds. As we explored with magnifying glasses and tweezers, we noticed the tiny flowers still present of the fresh sunflower surface. Several friends wondered what they were. We got to talk about how sunflowers are actually made up of hundreds of tiny flowers. Each flower gets fertilized by a bee and makes a single seed. As we looked at how many seeds there were we could see how many flowers the sunflower was actually made of. William was fully invested in this project for the entire duration of it. He lead a movement to collect ever single seed and put them into a jar so see how many there were. We brought out a big measuring pitcher and William backed it full with four cups of seeds from just the largest flower head! This measuring project may continue tomorrow. Over and over young children learn best from real things they can see and touch!