This short week, we focused on love and kindness.
Wednesday:
The students had fun building hearts out of various materials. We read a very sweet story about a mime and partnered up with classmates to play the silent mirror game, where one partner "mirrors" the movements of the other partner.
Our star of the week dazzled the students with a special visit from Spider-man.
Thursday:
The kids were so excited to hand out and receive all the special valentine's from their friends. It was a great opportunity to practice reading each other's names.
We completed one of my favourite activities called: Don't wrinkle my heart.
We passed around a paper heart and shared things that can hurt peoples feelings. For example, if someone says, "I don't want to play with you." or "I'm not your friend." With each idea we shared we would crinkle the heart.
After the heart was all crumpled up we brainstormed things to say to make friends feel better after hurting their feelings. Examples included, "I'm sorry." "Please come play with me." "You are my friend." "I love you."
While we shared these, we smoothed out the crumbled up heart. With each kind phrase we tried to fix the heart. Once we went completely around the circle the heart was still wrinkled. The lesson we take away is that when we say unkind things, they stick with us, even after apologies are made.
We all signed the heart as an agreement that we are going to work our best to not wrinkle any hearts.
We did choral reading with an emergent reader book called, "What do you love?" The kids completed the last page by illustrating and writing what they love. They had the help of Turtle to speak slowly and write down the sounds they heard in the word.
With buddies we complete maps of our hearts, drawing and writing the things that we love.
We are ready for another short week, with an exciting day on Wednesday. The kids are invited to dress up like they are 100, not mandatory, but it is always fun. Tip: You can use baby powder to grey hair colour.
Stories this week:
Here's a great little song about this story:
Star of the week shared: The Little Girl Who Lost Her Name by Wonderbly
Songs this week:
Spread Love ZUMBA
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