Relationships Part 2

Today was a strange day since Chloe and Luc had no school and still needed to be watched. So, I had them from 8:30-5:30. However, neither wanted to do Joy School so today was the first day of just Hailey and I.

First we talked about the importance of having friends and how they make us happy. Then we did a figure play with elephants.

Then I had a flannel board story about how it would be if Hailey was the only person in the world. Following that, it talks about since she is not the only person that she needs to learn how to get along with others.

After that we were supposed to read "The Quarreling Book" by Charlotte Zolotow but my library doesn't carry it. I did find "The Rain Came Down" by David Shannon in book and tape form and am very glad I checked it out. The point that Joy School wanted to introduce is that feelings are contagious. In "The Quarreling Book" everything goes down hill because the husband forgets to kiss his wife goodbye and in "The Rain Came Down" it starts with the rain. It was a great, funny book with good illustrations.

To help illustrate what contagious means we talked about how a mirror copies everything that we do (we also learned a song about it). We also did an art project about reflection. We dipped yarn into a pile of paint then put it on one side of the piece of paper and smashed the paper together to get the reflected image on the other side.
Hailey thought it was very fun.

Hailey's finished project is the one on top, while mine is on bottom.

Then we finished with another book. The recommended book was "That's What a Friend Is" by P.K. Hallinan but since the library didn't have it we did "Rainbow Fish" by Leo Leonni.

This lesson had a lot of books which is what Hailey enjoys.