Sharing is Caring

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."  

-- Khalil Gibran

 

Today was a blast! We covered sharing and caring and had quite the busy day. We were so busy with our activities that the day actually ran over our time and no one noticed!

We started out with our older student, Audrey, teaching the younger ones how to weave our laundry baskets. While I was setting up the kids used the crepe papers to help them run faster. When they had run their sillies out, we sat down and had Audrey help them weave the crepe paper in and out.

We moved on to some outside painting. We learned that if pink shares with blue, we can make purple. The kids decided to finger paint and then collect items from outside to manipulate the paint. It was a great activity that kept them involved for quite some time.

They definitely built up the quite the appetite from our morning so we started our snack time. We spread the love with our own homemade strawberry jam. Each child "picked" their strawberries, put them in zip lock bags, added a pinch of sugar and smashed the berries into jam. Even our littlest student, Royce, joined in! Then, we sat down and enjoyed our jam on some crackers.

After snack, Audrey showed how much she cared about her friends by reading a story to them while they snuggled with their favorite stuffed animal.

When story time was over, we talked about how we can show that we care about our friends when they are hurt. Creating our band aid card was super fun and super cute!

We ended the day, with our share box and the kids decorated with stickers.

 

A beautiful day was had at Chicken Nugget Mom Academy!



** Mother Goose Time allows me to follow two of my biggest passions. Educating my children and writing! I am honored to work with Mother Goose Time. I do receive the curriculum in exchange for my blog posts but every word in here is honest and a true example of this curriculum in a multi age home practice.

Keys To Friendship

Today we learned how to "include everyone" and "work together"! We started our day with circle time and discussed how many friends we can have. We had super awesome answers ranging from 10 all the way to 100. The more the merrier as they say. We did some review on our shape, the circle! The kids got to close their eyes and try to feel for the circle amongst the other shapes. Then we went over the number two. The kids held onto the number two and jumped two times, clapped two times, spun around two times. They had so many ideas on all the fun things we could do twice.

We got to start making our friendship bracelets and discussing what we can do to make a friend feel included. We started out by dumping the beads out and letting the kids explore. It was so cool to just watch them talk about how they can make patterns with their beads. Once they started creating their bracelets they had a blast and if one child needed a certain color, they all shared nicely. 

Now we got to take a ride on our friendship train! We spoke about who we should include when we play. That was easy, EVERYONE! We then set out our paper chains and let them connect to each other while making their train. They had so much fun choo-chooing around the house.

After we choo-chooed, we started our next activity. Before starting we asked the kids, " How can working together make a task easier?" We let them take turns trying to pick up a heavy toy. Then we tried working together and they saw how much easier it was.

We continued working on that platform and had the kids stamp out the heart shaped stampers on a piece of paper. They took turns placing two stamps on the paper and then running around the group, duck duck goose style. After we filled our paper, we asked them if it would have been easier doing all that stamping and running by ourselves. They all agreed working together was easier.

We ended our day building with our tangrams. We did lose most of the younger kids by this time. They all wanted to play outside, so we let them explore while our older students created AB patterns with the tangrams. 

 

 

** Mother Goose Time allows me to follow two of my biggest passions. Educating my children and writing! I am honored to work with Mother Goose Time. I do receive the curriculum in exchange for my blog posts but every word in here is honest and a true example of this curriculum in a multi age home practice.

More.......Emotions, emotions, emotions!

Today we studied the following emotions: mad, scared, and calm. We took our emotion magnifying glasses and when the happy face came up, we made our own happy faces. We did the same activity with sad and mad. The kids loved showing us their super smiling happy faces. Then, we sped it up and things got a little silly!

We then moved onto our first craft. The children were asked how they feel when they are mad and then discussed different ways we could practice calming down. To do this we made stress balls with balloons and homemade playdoh. The kids loved stuffing there playdoh in the balloons. Afterwards, we all took turns pretending we were mad and squeezing our stress balls.

We then got to crazy dance over to our next activity. I'm noticing the best way to keep their attention is to think on their level and what would keep me interested at that age. Crazy dancing over to our next activity worked like a gem. Everyone got their "sillies out" and we made our way to a dark area so we could talk about what may scare us in the dark. We used some little toy bugs and made shadows with them. We spoke about how things may appear scary but in reality they are not so scary when you see them for what they really are. Here you see the kids holding up their little toys to see the shadow.

Now that we discussed the mad and scared emotions, we thought adding calm as an extra emotion would go perfectly hand in hand with the previous two. We went over how we could calm ourselves down when we are mad or scared. We had some answers such as breathing, exercising, stretching, and dancing. Now that we discussed calmness we made calm down jars.

Overall, the kids had a super fun day discussing these emotions and the time flew by!

** Mother Goose Time allows me to follow two of my biggest passions. Educating my children and writing! I am honored to work with Mother Goose Time. I do receive the curriculum in exchange for my blog posts but every word in here is honest and a true example of this curriculum in a multi age home practice.

Today was full of emotions...

Literally! We learned about feeling Happy, Sad and Surprised! After our circle time, we did some exercises exploring how our face moves when we're feeling these emotions. 

The boys and girls loved our first activity! They had no problem identifying the happy, sad and surprised faces drawn on the whiteboard. 

What better way to explore our faces than to use a mirror? Here we are crafting up a hand held mirror to see how our lips move when we're sad, how we look when we're surprised 

and how many ways you can smile when we're happy! 

As story time approached, we got some snacks prepared and I took out a silly little prop! We read, "The Woodcutter's Woes" and learned more about feeling happy, sad and surprised. Each time the word "sausage" was said in the story each child got a sausage taped to their nose, and boy were they surprised! The story had a great lesson, we learned that happiness comes from the heart and not from the things we buy. Except popcorn - doesn't popcorn make everyone happy? 

We popped right in to introducing the letter "P" by popping popcorn - and ourselves - 

around a big letter P taped on the floor! 

After we pop-pop-popped, we made the letter P out of our popcorn 

and then enjoyed it as a tasty treat! 

We continued our lesson with a Feeling Shapes Game. Sometimes we feel more than one emotion at a time, so each child chose two shapes from the bag and created a pattern by tracing it onto their paper. They were so creative they even drew different emotions on the shapes they traced!

 

We closed our day with a game of Red Light, Green Light 123 outside, 

using happy (green) faces and sad (red) faces. 

With a few distractions from the airplanes flying by, we redirected the children by extending our arms and flying back to the start line for another round of Red Light, Green Light 123. 

 

** Mother Goose Time allows me to follow two of my biggest passions. Educating my children and writing! I am honored to work with Mother Goose Time. I do receive the curriculum in exchange for my blog posts but every word in here is honest and a true example of this curriculum in a multi age home practice.