WF 1-27-2025 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

**PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS THEIR SNOW GEAR FOR TOMORROW!

We kicked off a new week of PREK1 sign in where we focused on a specific physical characteristic of various shapes: the number of sides! Each friend blindly picked a shape from a bowl and counted the number of sides. They sorted the shape into a category on the board based on the number of sides their shape had. As they taped their shape on the board, some friends commented on other shapes in their group!

K.G.2: Compare shapes using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, and parts (e.g. number of sides, length of sides, and vertices).

Throughout the week, we’ll add the book we read during PREK1 group to our chart. Today, we identified the title, author, and illustrator and talked about the specific jobs of the author and illustrator. The illustrations in ‘A Story For Small Bear’ were so beautiful!

K.RL.3.2: Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

This morning we puzzled over pattern blocks, trying to find new ways of putting them together to make shapes. Several friends made flowers. They found different solutions using hexagons, trapezoids, diamonds, triangles and squares arranged in different ways. One friend noticed that the diamond shape resembled a flower seed and added those shapes to the center of her flower where the seeds would be. Several others did this as well. We had grown a large sunflower in the garden this summer and we had examined it up close after it had gone to seed. Friends spent an afternoon removing the seeds with tweezers. It was fun to see the kids so aware of where the seeds are formed in a flower!

In the art center, we used classroom objects that we see every day to make shape paintings. We enjoyed some of the new textures, like the dots and lines we could make with the bristle blocks. This activity opens up new ways of seeing the world, as we break it down into the shapes that are all around us.