Joy School: Unit 10 Family Tree

This was a fun lesson to do. I found pictures of Hailey, Nathan and I, my parents, Nathan's parents, and our grandparents. The only pictures I couldn't find was of Nathan's dad's dad (who died in 1990 I think) and grandma Connie.
I was proud that I could find the pictures and make this nice tree of Hailey's ancestors.

We also read books about grandmas and grandpas.

This is our last lesson in Joy School Year 1. I really like Joy School and am excited to start it again in the fall.

Joy School Unit 10: Belonging

We talked about our ancestors in this lesson with a family tree chart.
Then we talked about babies and how moms make a choice and wanted the child to join their family. So Hailey took a picture of Hannah, our newest member who we wanted to join our family. Hannah was our special guest (which was apart of the lesson this time).

Then we listened to a lullaby. She here is Hailey cuddling her baby, Lambie.

The craft today was making a mobile as a gift for the baby.

Here's Hannah playing with them.

Even Robert liked playing with it.

Then Hailey and I made a family flag. It was difficult knowing what to put on it. In the middle we have a star with three suns in the middle (for three kids) and five hearts around the star that says, service, love, mommy, daddy, Hailey. On the right is our family slogan: I'm thankful for every new day! And on the right is our family motto: Choose the Right and Kindness starts with me. Our family scripture is Philippians 1:3-11 (it was a scripture that my visiting teacher shared with me that I liked a lot).

Philippians 1:3-11

3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Joy School: Unit 10: Family Chain

Since Hannah was born, I have been doing very short lessons (and haven't had the chance to really blog about it.) I'm writing now at the end of August about events that happened several months ago. In this lesson we built a house out of yarn. We did a puppet show about family members loving each other.

Finally we made a family circle chain. Hailey enjoyed this activity. Each family member has their name on a different slip of paper. However, just our names isn't enough. To complete the circle and have a great family you need, Joy and Love! (those are on the yellow and white slips)
Luc joined us for Joy School today.

Joy School: Unit 10: Traditions and Family

Since this lesson had a lot of big class projects to get ready for a graduation program, we worked on our tradition calender that was apart of the previous lesson. Here's baby Hannah, joining us at school today. It's been hard to finish off the lessons with a newborn around to take care of.

We did a felt story board game about Katie's school and family.

The final activity was using felt people to model our family after. Hailey liked playing with the little people.

Joy School: Unit 10: Mothers and Homes

In this lesson we introduce the importance of the last name. Hailey who has been hanging out with Emily recently, tried to included her in our family with the same last name. I reminded her that Emily if a good friend but has her own family and therefore a different last name.

Then we read "The Kissing Hand" by Audrey Pen about an animal who is afraid to leave his mommy and go to school. She kissed his hand to help him remember she'll always be close and will always love him. It's a cute book and Hailey likes it. Next time I'm allowed to buy books, I'll get this one.

After we listen to a song, Hailey made a Mother's Day card. This lesson was supposed to line up with Mother's Day. However, I think everyday should be Mother's Day so we kept this activity in. The front of the card says "A Mother Like No Other." Then in the inside is a picture of me (with the whole family since I don't have any good pictures of my alone). Then Hailey filled in the blanks of the poem inside. It says:

"Happy is what I feel when my mother ... kisses me.

Her hands ... hold mine tight.

She's funny when she ... is pretty.

I love her because ... we are a family."

Then we read "The Sleepy Book" by Charlotte Zolotow and had a puppet show about family love.

We finished the lesson with drawing our house. The activity was supposed to be decorating a house in a shoe box and making it a 3D model. I was excited about this but ended up dreading this activity due to the work involved to make a little table, chairs, bed, couch, etc. So I ended up drawing it instead. Hailey loved it and turned it into her map.

Here's a video of Hailey talking about her map.

Joy School: Unit 10: Belong

This is the first lesson in Unit 10: The Joy of Family Security, Identity, and Pride. This is also our last unit for year 1 which I'm kind of excited about.

We started the lesson talking about a story that had a little boy who had a bad week but everything ended well because his parents where there to support him.

After that we learned a new song "Because we are Family". This is a very long song (3 verses) so each verse is taught in different lessons.

Then we did a flannel board story of "Peter's Family" to identify who is in our family and the different roles they have. This story's family had a dog so Hailey was convinced that she had a dog too. So we talked about our family for a little. Then we talked about what other types of groups we're apart of like Joy School, tumbling class, Sunbeams (church), a playgroup, and a neighborhood. I asked her who her neighbor was and she said Aunt Kerstin (who lives in Utah while we're in Idaho).

This led into our art activity of putting a circle of friends together. This was supposed to be our the Joy School classmates but instead I just asked her who she wanted in her circle and she said Mommy, Hailey, Hannah, Robert, Daddy, and Gramma.


We ended the lesson reading Corduroy. I'm glad we were able to do Joy School again.