Happy Monday!
Throughout the week, K/PREK1 will be reading books from different genres. Today, we focused on fairytales as we read ‘The Little Mermaid’. We quickly noticed that this version was much different than the original. The main character wasn’t called ‘Ariel’ but instead, just ‘The Little Mermaid’. Plus, she had blonde hair instead of red! We talked about how fairytales can have different versions depending on who the author and illustrator are in the story.
As a group, we can up with phrases, things, or people that we often see or hear in fairytales. Our list included: queens, kings, castles, ‘happily ever after’, unicorns, horses, ‘once upon a time’, and dragons.
As each child was rolling up their mat, they were given two or three shapes that they had to put in the correct category. We sorted shapes based on their sides and place the shapes in either the ‘no side’ category or the ‘side’ category.
K.RL.3.1: Recognize familiar narrative text genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, fairy tales, poems).
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.
In PREK2, friends used manipulatives to solve simple addition and subtraction problems. At this age, one to one correspondence skills are coming into focus. The first thing that we see is children using their index finger to count.
“Art for toddlers and preschoolers is rarely about beauty. It’s all about exploration and personal expression.”
-Heather Shumaker
Breakfast– Whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagel with butter and fresh pears.
Lunch– Whole wheat noodles with marinara sauce, banana, and fresh carrots/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with fresh oranges.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.
Have a terrific night.
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 2/4
