Good Afternoon!

We continue talking about text genre’s in PREK1 group. For sign in, children were given two books and they had to figure out which book was the fiction story.

During group time, it was all about poetry! We read poems from the book, ‘It’s Raining Pigs and Noodle’. We loved the rhyming addition that we noticed in the poems and most of them were quite funny!

PREK 2: Today we read the story “What should Darla Do?”  The book talked about different ways that someone could solve a problem.  The kids helped choose what Darla should do when faced with different situations.  Then they got to hear how different solutions might work…or not work in Darla’s favor.  If Darla chose to push someone off her seat she might get pushed back and not get to enjoy being at the table in the first place.  If she chose a different seat,  Darla would get to have a nice time sharing in the table’s activity…

Since yesterday was about tiny pointillism painting,  today was about big and bold painting.  We looked at the artist Mark Rothko’s work who made large expressive color block paintings.  We talked about how in the book the paintings looked small but in real life they are the size of the entire wall.  After we looked at examples of the style, we worked together to create some ourselves.  We blocked off sections with tape and spread the paint in our area.  We talked about how looking at large blocks of color like in Rothko’s work often evokes emotions.  We talked about how the different colors made us feel.  Some of us felt like the red color made us feel happy and others said it was the green color that was happy to them.  We talked about how different colors can evoke different emotions in different people.  This is part of the reason we all might have different color preferences.  We all experience what we see a little differently. 

While setting up, one of our friends chose to come into the art center and wait for the painting project to start.  Another friend asked her to go play something else and she said “no, I want to do this.”  When her friend asked why, she responded “Because I’ve never done this before”…  A beautiful way to approach experience that young children possess such simple but profound insight about. 

 

At our morning welcome activity we worked on our grouping and counting skills.  We built groups of 1-10 cubes counting as many as we could based on our age and ability.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with fresh pears

Lunch: Scrambled eggs with fresh carrots, cantaloupe and orange slices

PM snack:  Popped corn with raisins

Wee Sprouts: Fresh peppers and cucumbers

Link to photos:2023-09-20

Have a great afternoon!

~Wee Friends Teachers