WF, 1/31/2024 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

For PREK1 sign in, children were asked to come to the sign in board where we talked about how the author and illustrator of a story work together so that the author’s words and illustrator’s pictures match. I gave children two illustrations from the book and they told me what was happening. Then, I read two different paragraphs from the book and they had to match the words to the correct illustration.

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

After reading, ‘The Invisible Boy’ in PREK1 group, each child got a laminated card and a set of shape blocks. They used the shape blocks to build a new shape. For example, Nesta was given one hexagon and three small triangles. She had to use those four shapes to make a larger triangle.

K.G.4: Compose simple geometric shapes to form larger shapes (e.g. create a rectangle composed of two triangles).

We continued work on our group shape painting that we have been making as a process over a couple of days. We are using classroom objects that we use every day. We are seeing them in new ways as we use them as stamps and focus on the shapes they are made of. We started with a layer of circles yesterday. Today we created squares, rectangles and triangles. We used trio blocks, bristle blocks and Legos which we usually use for building and might not normally recognize as a sum of shapes. We noticed how the trio blocks made rectangles, but within that shape we could see circles and squares. The Legos made circles within rectangles and even the triangular bristle blocks were made up of tiny circles. It was a an exercise in finding shapes within shapes, thinking creatively about the use of objects and observation.

We worked on other activities throughout the classroom using shapes. Amelia particularly like a shape matching activity. She enjoyed coloring the shapes herself and then matching the buttons to the correct shapes. At the light table we used squares to see what imaginative configurations we could come up with using them. There was a magic house that could talk when its square doors and window were opened. We had a trick shape mixed in and friends had to guess why triangles would be part of a square activity. Many of us found that it was because two triangles make a square!