WF, 9/22/2025 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Happy Monday!

We kicked off the week by completing a PREK1 sign in where we identified specific characteristics of shapes in a group. As each group member came up to the board, they looked at a group of four shapes; three small circles and one large circle. Everyone chose the large circle as the shape that didn’t belong to the group because it was a different size!

Later on in group, we read ‘The Big Bad Wolf and Lil Wolf’. I shared that throughout the week, we’ll be reading stories from each of the four text genres. We listed the four text genres and almost immediately, a few friends shared that this specific book is a fiction story! We looked at just the cover and came up with several reasons why it is a fiction story.

Parent conversation suggestion: ask your PREK1 child during dinner or bedtime routine about the book they read today and what made it a fiction story!

K.DA.1: Identify, sort, and classify objects by size, number, and other attributes. Identify objects that do not belong to a particular group and explain the reasoning used.

K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairytales, poems).

Legos have been a strong interest lately. We created a Lego work space on the building rug this morning so that all our curious builders could work on their projects in a group, sharing ideas as they went. We had a lot of creative ideas including machines, cars with three rows of seats and a smoke stack for a jail. Working with Legos is great for development. It helps to increase attention span, think creatively, increase fine motor development, use critical thinking, problem solving skills and helps to increasing over-all executive function. Working in a group allows kids to practice with social skills, social awareness and the sharing of ideas among peers.

PREK2: In group we have been practicing different breathing exercises along with body movements to help calm our bodies. We each tried to remember a breathing exercise and demonstrate that at group today. We tried tire breath, bunny breath, rainbow breath, butterfly breathing and peanut butter and jelly legs. Each exercise helps us stretch, move and align our bodies while using deep breathing.