WF 01/06/2026 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

We continued to dive into our FAB’s for the week and today, we focused on community helpers. Each PREK1 group member came to the board where they found their name and solved their community helper riddle. Majority of children took the initiative to write their answer by themselves with help from a teacher as they sounded out the word.

Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.

Just before break we read a book about volcanos, which captured the interest of several of our older kids. We planned to create a volcanic eruption through an experiment in our classroom which the kids were very excited about. Returning from break, two kids asked about the volcano upon entry on day one…so clearly still interested even after two weeks :).

This morning, we began work on the volcano. We worked together to make a batch of salt dough. Next, we placed a bottle on a tray as the volcano’s crater and used the salt dough to build a volcano around it. We ran out of dough so had to stop and make a second batch. Since some of the kids felt that the dough was not a good color for a volcano, we added some brown food coloring. The kids also shared that we should have grass around the volcano so we added some green play dough we already had in the classroom. A few kids also decided to use some dough to add “rocks” around the bottom. They were quite invested in making the volcano as realistic as possible and I loved how they had so many ideas to add to the project! We are anxiously waiting for the project to dry so we can used a few benign household materials to create the eruption.