WF 04/29/2024 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

**Wee Friends will be closed on Monday, May 27th for Memorial Day.

PREK1 friends get to focus on how things move this week! Today, we focused on modes on transportation. During sign in, children had to write a vehicle that moves faster than a bike. Some answers were car, racecar, and motorcycle.

Science: K.3.2 Investigate that things move in different ways, such as fast, slow, etc.

Later on in group, we read a few pages out of ‘Here and There’ that focused on how people travel in different countries. We learned that it depends on climate and how the country looks as far as hilly, mountainous, or cold! In the book the author shared that a few different modes of transportation are trains, buses, ferries, rickshaws (think bicycle with a cabin attached), or by sled dogs! Did you know that Venice, Italy has no roads at all? Instead, they use a complex network on canals! Nesta shared towards the end of our group session that she road the double decker bus when she lived in London last year!

This morning we experimented with “objects in motion”. We built different types of ramps using a variety of materials. We could make our ramps very steep or nearly level. We also could try sending objects of different weights, materials and shapes down the ramps. We tried wood pieces of different shapes, felt balls and marbles. We noticed that the marbles were rolled down most quickly!

We spent time this morning working on our seed journals. We observed that our radish seeds had stems and leaves. Some of our bean seeds had little loops emerging and white roots. There were some specific details we noticed as we looked carefully at our plants. One thing that we found unusual was that the radish plants were not green but had reddish stems. Another detail was that the radish plants have three leaves. Arthur wrote in his journal that his science experiment “looks like a plant” “:).