Grouptime events

assessment: how does generosity make us feel? When asked what they know about generosity the children talked about kindness, helping others and being nice. What does it mean to be nice and how can we be kind and helpful to others?  We read the story 3 Kind Mice by: V. Schre as our feature story for the word "kindness".  The children thought it would be a lot of fun to have a party just like in the story so together we made invitations and planned for cake and treats for our Generosity party.   The story behind the Generosity party They were so excited about inviting the other children to a party they planned themselves.  We made a yummy chocolate cake to share and goody bags to give the children at the end of the day.  The children in the Earth group noticed the gleaming faces of the children as we ate and laughed together.  Allye is mixing the batter Damon is mixing the butter and the sugar Matthew: We are having a generosity par...

A line is anything in an artwork in the distance between 2 points What is a line?  For the next 3 Friday Art days the children will be exploring LINES as an art element.  We will be using different tools, play games to create and explore different kinds of lines.   In this particular grouptime the children learned about lines which show direction: vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zigzag and curvy.  First, we looked around the room to find these lines and we discovered that they are everywhere; there are even lines on our bodies! We practiced writing/drawing these lines in the air and on paper using markers.  We even drew lines with our heads, our tongues and our bottoms.  How does it feel like to move through these lines? We played a song game called "We are going walking" where children walked on either a zig-zag or straight line and at the end they were to stop and do a yoga pose. They enjoyed this game so much and invited the chi...