Good Afternoon!
Reminder for tomorrow’s Halloween parade (starting at 4:00 pm):
We have children in our classroom who cannot be shown on social media in anyway. For that reason, we ask that parents DO NOT take photos of any children during any WF event. If you have a photo you want- please see the teachers as they will have a camera on them or can take one with your phone as they can monitor which kids are behind yours in the photo! If you have any questions- please feel free to ask. Thank you to everyone for their understanding and cooperation!
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Today, our PRE-K/K group or large group as we call it, welcomed Grady! Tomorrow, Grady turns 4 and was ready for the transition. Usually, children move from ‘small group’ to ‘large group’ when they turn four years old OR when they’re ready for what large group entails. It’s different for every child so we take each child’s personality and developmental readiness into consideration.
Our large group friends were anxious to show Grady the ropes and the specific things we do in large group. This is a great opportunity for our older friends to set the example and take the lead in large group. We read the story ‘Me First’ which focused on the main character always wanting to be first. Towards the end of the story, he realized through specific events that it’s not always the best to be first! After finishing the story, we discussed punctuation and where we saw it in the story. We took five sentences that we read in the story and tried to pick out the punctuation that we saw and identified what it was called. Friends also noticed that the beginning letter of every sentence was capitalized so we circled the capital letter that started each sentence.
K.W.6.2a: Capitalization—Capitalizing the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
K.W.6.2b: Punctuation—Recognizing and naming end punctuation.
The rest of our morning was full of stories, sensory play with the corn mixture, and exploring the category game.
Breakfast– Whole wheat toast with butter and banana.
Lunch– Whole grain pasta with shredded cheese, PPC strawberries/banana, and PPC broccoli.
PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with PPC strawberries.
Wee Sprout– PPC broccoli.
Have a lovely night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 10/30