Joy School: Unit 6: Decisions

We opened Joy School today with Hailey choosing which finger plays to do (her options were flannel pictures). Then we did a flannel board story about "Mrs. Duck's New Hat" which Hailey also enjoyed and quickly decided which hat she liked best and stayed with her choice.

Then I did a Popsicle stick puppet (design was provided) show about good decisions, bad decisions and how they make us feel. We talk about good choices and bad choices all the time at home and she knows the right answer even if her actions doesn't show that. And of course, there was a song "Choices are Connected" to learn about our feelings.

We read "Shortcut" by Donald Crews which Hailey enjoyed. It's about a group of kids that decided to take the shortcut home by using the train tracks instead of the road and got surprised by a train coming. Hailey took this book to the bathroom and retold the story to herself.

We finished with the an art activity where she could make whatever shape she wanted with the stripes of paper. Then we stapled it together and she glued it onto a file folder to make a sculpture.