Happy Monday and happy December!
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In K/PREK1, we dove into the FAB for the week:
Social Studies: K.3.2 Identify maps and globes as ways of representing Earth and understand differences between a map/globe.
Group was started by answering the question: “What do we use a map or globe for?”
The following answers were shared:
“You can see where you’re going!”
“We can see states.”
“Places like Hong Kong.”
We read ‘I Am Planet Earth’ which identified different things that are on the Earth. For example, people, cities, towns, and states. This lead into our web that we filled in. Friends shared different states that they have knowledge of. We quickly filled up our web with eight states!
In PREK2, children identified a map with different items such as couch, bedroom, and dresser! They talked about what a map is used for which lead into the activity!
We came in today to find new activities! The first one children dove into was the new peg board.
Children took turns at the peg board, making difference creations such as a giraffe! What a great fine motor activity that’s interactive and colorful!
Our next exciting addition to our classroom are new, advanced 60-64 piece puzzles! Most of our older friends have conquered the 48 piece puzzles. However, the larger puzzles offered more of a challenge!
An art table activity was offered this morning. Children painted a piece of aluminum foil and after they were done, they took a piece of white paper and made a print of their creation.
Mack and Sophia carried buckets up to the top of the sandbox and flashed their muscles, sharing “We’re so strong!”
Tami had posted this article a few weeks back on the Wee Friends Facebook page and thought I’d share it here. The topic is independence and how it pertains to children.
“The truth is that independence is a pure good even if it doesn’t necessarily lead to pure good. But without it, without the freedom to make mistakes, to learn the often hard lessons that lead to the internalization of traits like courtesy and caution and thrift, children are left to learn them later in life, as teenagers or young adults, when the consequences of their inevitable mistakes are likely to be far more dire than they would have been had the mistakes been made, had the learning happened, when they were children.”
“Better, I think, if we really want our children to grow up to be their own people, free, capable, autonomous, and independent, we must allow them to experience freedom from an early age, to be allowed to make the mistakes necessary for learning what freedom is really all about. We must let them fall down and to be there to pick them back up, because that is the single most important lesson we can learn through freedom: independence means nothing unless it’s balanced with interdependence.”
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/you-want-your-children-to-be.html
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and fresh banana/grapes.
Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with shredded turkey and butter, fresh pears/banana, and fresh carrots.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with honey oats.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots.
Have a lovely evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 12/2
