Good Afternoon!
Chloe picked ‘Lady and the Tramp’ to read during K/PREK1 which is a story that we hadn’t read in group before! Before I started reading, we observed the front cover to look at the illustration to see what the story may be about.
Throughout they story, a few friends shared what comes next since they had read the story before. This is a simple way to evaluate children’s comprehension. For example, if your child has a favorite book at home, ask them some questions before or during your reading at night. A few suggestions would be:
“Can you tell me a little about the characters that are in this story that you remember?”
“After the aunt kicks Lady out of the house, can you tell me what happens next?”
We completed calendar before heading to the art table to journal. During our calendar session today, we focused on several aspects including the month and day of the week.
K.M.2: Understand concepts of time, including: morning, afternoon, evening, today, yesterday tomorrow, day, week, month, and year. Understand that clocks and calendars are tools that measure time.
In PREK2, children read ‘Born to Read’ with Miss Kim. Afterwards, they identified four different events that occurred and worked together to place them in the correct order in which they happened.
Magnatile creations sprung up left and right as children worked together or by themselves to build a variety of towers, houses, and zoos. The magnets played a huge part of their experience because as Franklin was building, he didn’t want his triangles to connect to one another but they kept coming together as the magnets were too strong. He had to use trial and error to see how he could complete his creation without the magnets being attracted to each other.
We’ve seen a variety of children frequent the art table this week. Our older friends have taken on the role as ‘teacher’ during this time as children are asking one another about drawings, letters, and sounds that they have questions on.
Multi-age classrooms have numerous benefits but one that is evident here, every single day, is that, “Older children fell to their knees to help the younger ones. Younger children stepped up their game, stretching themselves to join the play of the older kids.”
We see this all the time. We have three year old’s whose play becomes elevated because their playing with older peers and we see the flip side: older friends who up their game in terms of being helpers and teachers to their younger friends. It truly is a learning experience.
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/clearly-as-it-should-be.html
Breakfast– Oatmeal Squares and fresh blackberries.
Lunch– Peanut butter on whole wheat bread, fresh cantaloupe, and fresh carrots/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and string cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/pepper.
Have a fantastic evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 2/18
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