WF 09/19/2023 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

PREK1 friends made their way to the sign in board as they had to determine which group had the most stars. All of the group members were able to look at each group and determine which group had the most, without counting the stars.

K.NS.9: Use correctly the words for comparison, including: one and many; none, some and all; more and less; most and least; and equal to, more than and less than.

We’re continuing to talk about text genres in PREK1 group. On today’s agenda: nonfiction! We read two nonfiction stories: Apples and Tomatoes. We talked about how nonfiction stories are about real things and often offer facts about real life, such as food! We can’t wait to learn about the other two text genres later in the week.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairytales, poems).

PREK2: In group we read the story “How Are You Peeling?” which talked about many different emotions. Repetition of these ideas in different ways helps to create a solid foundation of understanding for our early preschoolers. After the story, everyone thought of what made them feel better when they were experiencing difficult emotions.

In the art center today we created “Pointillism” paintings. We looked at photos from an art book by Georges Seurat. We looked very carefully at the paintings to see how they ere constructed only of tiny dots. Many of us marveled at the artists ability to create an image just from dots. Since we are talking about size comparisons in our curriculum, we learned that something like a large and complex painting can be made of simple tiny dots We each got the opportunity to try one of our own. A group of older friends got creative, trying different ways to make marks with the pencil. They all settled on a technique they tried using the pencil to roll across the dots. This created an interesting effect. The colors smeared but the dots remained…It was great to see the group so intuitively understanding the experimental nature of art.

During our welcome activity we did a sorting project with stones. At the first tray we tried sorting the stones by size in bowls that were small medium and large. At the second tray we tried making “Cairns” stacking the stones and balancing them to make short medium and tall stacks.