WF 09/30/2025 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good afternoon!

Hannah asked, “What are we going to be signing in about today? I think it should be about a book..”.

She read my mind! We used ‘Froggy’s Lemonade Stand’ to help us identify the setting. Children chose from three different settings and wrote their name under the correct setting of the book.

Later on in PREK1 group, we read the book and made sure to pay attention to the characters, setting, and various specific events that occurred in the story. We’ve been using the words beginning, middle and end when talking about events in a story.

One friend added that a character in the story was the lemonade stand. This allowed us to have a meaningful conversation about characters and the things we look for in characters. We talked about how the lemonade stand was an important aspect of the story but it wasn’t a character because it didn’t talk or speak in the story.

K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g. characters, settings, or events)

Today, we used a painting activity to practice retaining information and then following a loose set of directions in order. The project was intended to build focused attention, memory and verbalization.

I explained the entire process at the beginning of the project. The kids would see how many steps they could remember. I explained that first, they would make small dots all over their paper using the squeeze bottles. Next, they would use the squeegee to pull the paint across the paper, then they would choose some leaves and paint them, using the tray of red paint and brushes. Lastly, they would print the leaves on the painting. I checked in at each step to see what each child could remember asking, “What is next?”. Of course, younger kids needed some help remembering what to do, but often could remember a couple of steps. There were some of our older friends that could remember every step, and verbalize all of the things they would be doing.

Though we were using paint to draw interest in practicing following a step by step process, this wasn’t really an “art” project. I feel it’s important to specify that our “art” projects are about open free expression and experimentation with very little instruction if any.

PREK2: Today in group we read the story “The Creature of Habit”. We are learning about parts of a story like characters and settings. At the end of group, we picked which was our favorite Character, the very big or very small creature. We added our name to the board under the character we picked.