Good Afternoon!

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PREK1 kiddos kicked off their week by identifying the state that they live in as well as talking about other states that they’ve been to! It was a great time to talk about travel as we’re coming off of a holiday weekend where we had many kids traveling to other states! Other states and cities that we identified were Santa Fe, New Mexico and Seattle, Washington as well as the state of Michigan!

During group, we read an excerpt from ‘Here and There’ which talks about how people live their lives differently all around the world. Today, we read about how children get to school depending on where they live. In Japan, children as young as six years old travel by train to school…all by themselves! Our kiddos had a hard time imagining that! We brought out the world map to identify countries that we learned about in the book such as Japan, the Netherlands, Venezuela, and Zambia!

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

Older friends began looking at maps as a way to find places this morning, so we created a project around the ideas they are learning about.  Older kids hid a treasure somewhere in the classroom.  They were challenged to draw a map to the hiding place and have a friends follow the map to find it. While drawing the maps, we thought about places and objects in the classroom we could include in the map to help the reader find the treasure.  Many friends included large classroom landmarks like the kitchen island or the round table.  Others included less obvious features that they noticed like fire extinguishers. Older friends were encouraged to give younger friends a turn to follow their map with a little help along the way .

We worked on planting outside in the garden today.  We added tomato plants and pepper plants to the garden.  Older friends helped plant while younger friends watered.

PREK2:  Older kids created maps this morning for younger friends to follow to hidden treasure.  At group today, we imagined where we, as the younger friends, might have hidden the treasure. 

Breakfast– Kix and fresh pears.

Lunch– Peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh pears/pineapple, and fresh cucumber/carrots.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with graham crackers.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/carrot.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-05-27