Happy Friday!
To wrap up our week with PREK1 sign in, we used one of our favorite books to help demonstrate the connections we’ve made to the illustrations in stories and the words written by the author.
We used a short story from a ‘Frog and Toad’ book titled, ‘A Swim’. There were five excerpts from the story. I read each child one notecard and they had to look at the pile of illustrations to see which illustration matched the words I read to them.
Later on in group, we read the exact same story to see what exactly took place in the story between Frog and Toad!
K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.
Our MACK curriculum is crucial to our Wee Friends philosophy on how to treat ourselves and others. It’s something we’ve always done but several years back, Tami created our MACK curriculum which is a 12 week cycle with 5 main areas that focus on social emotional learning goals. This weeks MACK focus was about learning to recognize and name emotions in ourselves and others.
This morning we offered a “playdough emotions” activity. Friends were invited to explore how emotions look by recreating them in blank faces using balls of colored play dough. We tried making several different emotions with our face. The kids were amazingly in tune with facial expressions and being able to reproduce them. They added extra details beyond what we expected like tears on a sad face, red cheeks or teeth showing on an angry face, and expressive eye brows! We have some very emotionally aware children!
Happy Scared Sad Angry
We hope you enjoy some more pictures from our day!
Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with cream cheese and banana.
Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon, and fresh snap peas/cucumber.
PM snack– Goldfish and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/cucumber.
Have a wonderful weekend!
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2024-09-20