Good Afternoon!
For sign in, our PREK1 friends had to sort shapes into two groups: zero sided shapes and four sided shapes. We sorted the shapes by similarities and afterwards, children identified the shape and wrote their name next to it.
We hit on our fourth and final text genre today in PREK1 group: fairytales! We read, ‘Cinderella’ and talked about the characteristics of fairytales. A few friends shared other fairytale books and movies such as Beauty and the Beast and Frozen.
PREK2: Today we read the story “Bear Feels Scared” at group. We each chose what would help us most for feel better: Ask for a hug, talk about it with a teacher/parent or play with friends. We put our name up under our choice on on the board.
At our welcome activity this morning we practiced different ways of sorting. Arthur enjoyed using his small tongs to find the smallest bead and put it in the smallest jar then doing this with medium and large. Ryan, who was looking on, was happy to jump in and help when Arthur was looking for the various sizes. They worked together to solve the size puzzle! Some older friends chose to sort by color. Nesta and Hannah asked for more and more containers as they found they had a complex assortment of colors to categorize!
In the sensory bin this morning friends enjoyed exploring ice blocks of different shapes and sizes. We used tongs to try the slippery challenge of putting them in order from large to small. William said he wanted to turn the ice into water and tried several ways of doing this, including chopping the ice into pieces. We settled on an eye dropper to pour water over the ice, which was warmer and helped to melt it. It was a fun way to experiment with water properties.
Breakfast– Toasted oatmeal squares with banana.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken and butter, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh pepper/cucumber.
PM snack– Sunflower/pumpkin seeds with whole wheat crackers
Wee Sprout– Fresh pepper/cucumber.
Have a great night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2023-09-21