Kindness is everywhere, sometimes where you least expect it! We ran into a nice, older gentleman, on our walk back from visiting a little library, who gave the kids brand new bubble wands. They were so excited and surprised. It prompted a great mini conversation about generosity and kindness.
We continued working with emotions this week by relating to our stories, hunting for/identifying/sorting emotion cards and having a few morning meeting discussions about what makes us feel angry, sad, happy, or scared. We also talked about how we can make negative feelings less overwhelming, how we can identify different emotions in the people around us, and how to help others when they are feeling down. We had some great books to help spark discussion along the way:
-The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas
-The way I feel by Janan Cain
-In My Heart by Jo Witek
-One of Those Days by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
-Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney.
While reading The Colour Monster we learned that our emotions can be represented in colour and that sometimes it is hard to know exactly what we are feeling, so our colours are all messed up together, until we talk to someone. We had a fun time colouring our own Colour Monsters with crayons in swirly lines and straight lines.
Everyone became scientists when we did an experiment called Dancing Rice. In the end it ended up being cous cous and quinoa that danced for us. We learned that our rice was too heavy for the baking soda/vinegar bubbles to carry it up to the surface. We also discovered that yellow and red made orange when we added colour to our dancing rice water.
After heading out on an adventure, we brought back the beautifully coloured leaves everyone collected and made leaf rubbings. We also painted our portraits on mirrors, as we saw our own faces.
Our name activities this week included crayon rubbings over hot glued names, Velcro name letter matching, magnet letter name building with and without references for some and identifying the letters of everyone’s names before having the letters cut out and having to re-sequence them.
We continued working with emotions this week by relating to our stories, hunting for/identifying/sorting emotion cards and having a few morning meeting discussions about what makes us feel angry, sad, happy, or scared. We also talked about how we can make negative feelings less overwhelming, how we can identify different emotions in the people around us, and how to help others when they are feeling down. We had some great books to help spark discussion along the way:
-The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas
-The way I feel by Janan Cain
-In My Heart by Jo Witek
-One of Those Days by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
-Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anna Dewdney.
While reading The Colour Monster we learned that our emotions can be represented in colour and that sometimes it is hard to know exactly what we are feeling, so our colours are all messed up together, until we talk to someone. We had a fun time colouring our own Colour Monsters with crayons in swirly lines and straight lines.
Everyone became scientists when we did an experiment called Dancing Rice. In the end it ended up being cous cous and quinoa that danced for us. We learned that our rice was too heavy for the baking soda/vinegar bubbles to carry it up to the surface. We also discovered that yellow and red made orange when we added colour to our dancing rice water.
After heading out on an adventure, we brought back the beautifully coloured leaves everyone collected and made leaf rubbings. We also painted our portraits on mirrors, as we saw our own faces.
Our name activities this week included crayon rubbings over hot glued names, Velcro name letter matching, magnet letter name building with and without references for some and identifying the letters of everyone’s names before having the letters cut out and having to re-sequence them.
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