Happy Friday!

PREK1 friends wrapped up their week by completely sign in earlier today. Each friend had to find their name on the board along with a group of shapes that were specific to them. There was one shape in their grouping that didn’t fit. They had to figure out what shape didn’t fit into the group and share why. Albert said, “This one is a circle and it’s not a triangle like these.”. Everyone was able to quickly identify their ‘misfit’ shape and explain why it didn’t fit into the group.

K.DA.1: Identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number, and other attributes. Identify objects that do not belong to a particular group and explain the reasoning used.

We’ve been focusing on book genres all week in PREK1 and we finally came to the final genre: nonfiction! We have a few different animal life cycle representations that are displayed in the science area. One of those displays is the life cycle of the ladybug. So, we dove into the book ‘Ladybug Life Cycle’ and used the displays to help us get a close look at each stage. Friends were interested to find out that ladybugs aren’t just black and red but yellow, brown, and white!

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairytales, poems).

A couple of our young friends came up with a project idea earlier this week.  The project, referred to by its creators as “hook things together inventions”, was brought up yesterday afternoon in hopes that it could continue.  We brought the materials back out so the kids could continue to experiment and see the project through until they felt they had investigated all avenues!  Today we explored both new ideas and innovations to the old ones. Among our new ideas were an air plane with jet engines, a tiny umbrella and a pumpkin.

There is continued interest in the written word at Wee Friends!  Several kids have been very interested in a spelling game, using word cards and letter dice to sequence words.  Paige was clearly very pleased with her work!  Many of our younger journaling group have taken a leap from scribbling to making deliberate representational pictures and are beginning to write letters! It’s very exciting to see!

PREK2:  In group today we compared sizes.  We read the story “The Big Guy Took My Ball”.  We talked about the descriptive words large, small, big, little, and medium.  At the end of the story we came up to the board and picked a small, medium, or large “marble” to sort into a chart.  We used marbles given the strong interest in marble runs this week!

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with cream cheese and fresh grapes.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat tortilla, fresh cantaloupe/grapes, and fresh pepper/cucumber.

PM snack– Goldfish and cheddar block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-09-27