Friendly Monsters have joined our classroom. They are very sensitive and have a variety of feelings.
When asking the children "What feelings do you have sometimes?" I was blown away by their answers. Usually, we know children at this age can only identify with sad, mad, happy and angry.
My class also came up with "annoying, upset, afraid, frustrated, and lonely!" They are really in touch with their feelings. The dialogue going on in the classroom is very sweet and wonderful as they are doing acts of kindness for each other. I've heard some of the following:
"I'll get the towel for you because I know you are short and can't get it" (LOL)
"I can show you which bag is yours."
" Can I help you sweep? I'll hold the dust pan for you."
" Miss Kathi, I can pass out the snack if you want. I know you are busy."
and "Let's do something nice for Ms. Jeannie when we go to the lobby."...And they did! They decided she needed a pack of fruit snacks. Today we found a note on our door from Ms. Jeannie thanking everyone.
We have been busy learning about feelings, and even heard the book today Big Bad Bullybug,which tells how one big bug is mean and unkind to the little bugs. The children responded with "thats not nice", "arms are for hugging"
and "we need to be kind to each other!"
We've been making our own monsters. The names and stories were scary! We worked on
monster math with patterning and working on ordinal numbers.
We had so much fun flipping Sully the monster up in the air. Giggles Galore!!!
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