Good Afternoon!

We continued talking about shapes for our PREK1 sign in today! Each group member came to the board where we walked through a series of steps.

First, children searched the board for their name. They identified the corresponding shape and then counted the sides of their shape. On a plate was a group of different numbers. They searched and found the correct number and taped their number inside of their shape. Eliza was surprised to learn that there were zero sides on a circle.

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).

Later on in group, we read a book titled, ‘The Way I Feel’ from our MACK collection. Throughout the story, the author and illustrator demonstrated how they work together to share the words AND the corresponding illustration. Each page had a specific feeling with a facial expression on a character. On a few pages, we looked at the characters facial expression to see if we could guess the emotion on that page!

We talked about different situations in our life that makes us feel a certain way. Our friends with siblings shared that sometimes they feel jealous when their other sibling is getting attention from their parents and they’re not—so relatable and true!

MACK WEEK 3: Children will learn to recognize and name emotions in themselves and others.

K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

There has been interest in collecting and playing with leaves outside lately, so we thought it would be a great time to do this leaf printing art project.  Kids chose their favorite leaf shapes.  They painted their leaves and then pressed them onto their paper to make prints of the leaves.  Some kids experimented with painting blocks of different shades of green on the same leaf or painting compound leaves in different shades.  This made for some interesting prints!

Another interest that popped up for the morning was solving puzzles.  Some kids have been able to put together our most difficult pattern play puzzle.  Several kids got interested in trying more difficult puzzles and challenging themselves.  We saw some great team work as kids helped each other with struggles or gave each other pointers.

Breakfast– Overnight oatmeal with cinnamon and banana.

Lunch– Farm fresh scrambled eggs with shredded cheese, whole wheat tortilla/flatbread, fresh watermelon/pears, and fresh green beans/cucumber/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Air popped corn with raisins.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cucumber/green beans/pepper.

Have a lovely night.

-Wee Friends Teachers

Link to pictures: 2025-09-17