Good Afternoon!
We read a story in K/PREK1 titled, ‘Strictly No Elephants’. It centers around an elephant and his owner not being able to join a specific group. They encounter a skunk and his owner who ALSO weren’t allowed to join the same group. SO, they created their own group where everyone is welcome! We identified the problem in the story as well as the solution.
After we were done, I read four sentence strips that had four specific, important events from the story. Working together, children were able to correctly identify the order of events that occurred in the story.
K.1.4: Identify and order events that take place in a sequence.
Before doing our calendar activity, which is a daily occurrence, we worked as a team to find three specific times on the clock. We identified the two hands on the clock; hour and minute.
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.
Members of PREK2 worked as a team to fill in the missing events that occurred in the story, ‘Up, Up, Down’. Once they filled in the missing parts of the story, Miss Kim read it back to them.
Jack explored the welcome activity this morning. He rolled two dice and counted the white dots on each dice. He used the tongs to move puff balls by the dice so that his puff balls matched the number that was on his dice.
Sophia and Emma used the puff balls in a different way. They discussed the puff balls using descriptive words such as big and small as well as talking about the differences in color.
Some friends love it. Some friends said, “No, thank you.”
The ‘guts’ of a pumpkin can be a very controversial activity. We heard the following:
“This feels so cool!”
“Ew! That’s disgusting!”
“I DON’T want to do that.”
That’s the beauty of it. Children who wanted to explore the guts of the pumpkin could stand there for as long as they wanted while friends who didn’t want to take part in the activity were free to do so!
Breakfast– Whole Grain Cheerios and fresh strawberries.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken, fresh oranges/pears, and fresh cherry tomatoes/pepper.
PM snack– Pumpkin seeds and whole wheat crackers.
Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/pepper.
Have a fantastic evening!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/10
Friends had a blast. We also talked about the color and shape of the pumpkin and if it was hard or soft. 
