WF 01/29/2026 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

Our PREK1 friends came to sign in this morning where they chose an item from our classroom. They identified its shape and taped it inside the larger shape on the board.

Later on in group, we filled in a shape chart! There were several 2-D shapes that we identified and counted the number of sides and vertices of each shape. We noticed a pattern pretty early on; the number of sides and vertices are the same for each shape. We also loved the word ‘parallelogram’!

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).

This morning, we had some more interest in creating “jar storms”. A friend asked if we could learn about tornadoes so we created one in a jar. We used our small model to learn about what is happening in a tornado. First, we added a teaspoon of dish soap to a tinted jar of water. We also added a little glitter and some beads to act as “debris” one might find on the ground in the path of a tornado. Next, we used a long spoon to stir up a funnel. We could see a tornado form in our jar and reach to the ground, picking up the debris. We noticed that smaller debris was lifted up into the tornado, while larger debris was moved across the bottom of the jar but remained low in the water. We learned that a tornado acts much like this when it picks up objects off of the ground. We also noticed that when we put the spoon back in, the tornado dissipated. We talked about how a tornado does this when it hits large land formations such as mountains. Another thing we explored was jar shape. We tried different shapes and found that the tall thin cylinder shaped jar worked best!

There were several younger friends who became very interested in trying to catch the debris in the jar, so we set up an area where they could follow that inclination to do some fine motor work!