9/10/19

What a day!

The kids were able to see the newest baby goat, work in the garden with Ms. Miranda, and split up into chore groups to feed all of the animals!  Our lesson today was an overview of general health.  We talked about how people, just like animals, need to be healthy.  The class gave examples of things they do to stay healthy: eat right, exercise, take vitamins, etc.  I explained that each of those things helps keep us physically healthy, but that we should also include our emotional, mental, and social health.  I gave examples of how different animals need different things physically, but they also need to be with their herd or flock and not isolated, have attention and love, have things to keep them from being bored, etc.

Children love taking care of animals, and I use this as a bridge to help them understand our own needs.  At home, they will be choosing one of the animals on the farm and writing ideas of how to care for its physical, mental, emotional, and social health.  We'll share these in class.

In art, the students continued to work on their layered farm scene.  We will be finishing up the painting portion of this project soon and will be adding paper scraps and pieces of paint chips to create the details.



I love the enthusiasm and excitement in this group!  We try our best to keep things hopping.  We hop from indoors to outdoors, from listening time to "doing" time, from slower paced to fast paced.  This is intentional!  I will do my best to help these little ones learn to "change their channel" and switch modes, as needed.  It takes time to learn how to learn in a group, and I'm happy to lead them through this journey!