Happy Friday!

We ended our week by celebrating Arthur’s birthday with him! He turned four years old today and perfected his playdough birthday cake this morning! Happy birthday, Arthur!

For PREK1 group sign in, children worked together to complete a snowman! We started with a blank snowman and each group member got to add one thing to the snowman. Children spent some time trying to decide what they wanted to add .

In PREK1 group, we read one of my favorite books, ‘Here and There’ which dives into daily life and routines in different countries. Today, we focused on how kids from different countries travel to school. We determined that everyone in our group gets to school the same way: by car! But, we learned that children in different countries often have to walk miles to school or in cable cars if you live in Venezuela! Children were fascinated to see that in parts of France and the Netherlands, children travel to school on a bike bus! They were also relieved that they don’t live in Japan as children travel to school by themselves, often by train, starting at the age of 6! As we talked about different countries, we identified them on the map and looked to see how far away the country is from the United States.

 Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand the differences between a map/globe.

Friends enjoyed an art activity in the art center this morning.  They used a mixture of paint and glue in squeeze bottles to make beautiful marbled and mixed artwork!  Many friends worked on this art project with extreme focus!  It lasted all morning!

Miss Ashley sat with a large group of children on the building rug as they learned the game of ‘Go Fish’. The rules were laid out and children helped one another throughout the game as it was all fairly new to everyone! We love learning a new game that we can play with our friends.

Breakfast– Brown rice cakes with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch– Ham on whole wheat tortilla/flatbread, fresh clementines/banana, and fresh carrots/snap peas/pepper.

PM snack– Arthur’s birthday snack: fresh fruit kabobs and block cheese.

Wee Sprout– Fresh snap peas/carrots.

Have a wonderful weekend.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2024-12-06