Good Afternoon!

We used a map of the world for our PREK1 sign in this morning! We identified the compass on the map and talked about the four main directions. Children were able to state that ‘N’ stood for North! We talked about the three other directions as well.

A few friends have been travelling recently or are planning to travel this summer so we looked up the destinations on the map and figured out what direction the city or state was from us. Places we looked up were Washington, D.C., Virginia, Singapore, and Vietnam!

Social Studies: Create maps 2 dimensionally and 3 dimensionally.

This morning one of our friends said “I really liked that sand building activity with the trucks yesterday…can we do that again?”.  There was a lot of communicative hand gesturing so I knew it was important.  Of course, since we use emergent curriculum, we were happy to set up an activity for further exploration.  I couldn’t help but expand on it though.  Instead of kinetic sand, we used real sand.  We made read lakes and a river flowing through the middle.  We added long sticks and flat rocks which the kids used to build bridges, roads and houses.  Friends were engrossed in imaginative play, sensory and creative problem solving all morning…

…so much so that we moved the activity outdoors!

We hope you enjoy some more pictures from out day!

PREK2:  During group we read “The Mud Puddle”.  Most of us could confidently say this book was “fiction” because a mud puddle could not “run, walk or jump”.  After the story, we thought about how we could describe what the mud felt like on our hands while we explored the activity this morning.  We made a class list of what we thought.

Breakfast– Puffins cereal with banana.

Lunch– Sliced chicken breast and cheese on whole wheat bread, fresh watermelon/strawberries, and fresh pepper/snap peas/cucumber.

PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with butter and cinnamon.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/pepper/snap peas.

Have a wonderful night!

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-06-10