Wednesday, January 22, 2020

1/22/2020

A Joyful Jumping Kind of Day...

After chapel we sang several rounds of sleeping bunny, including: bunnies, owls, lions, baby pigs, unicorns, giraffes. The bunnies hopped, the owls flew and whoo-whoo'd, the baby pigs oinked, the unicorns neighed, and the giraffes bent their necks.
Later we took some time to intentionally focus our attention on each other by holding hands to make a circle, so that we could all see and hear each other and be present together in making our plan. Then the children initiated jumping up and down together. It was the first of more joyful jumping to come!

"No we aren't talking in spinach." -Reed

A conversation about smoothies:

"I like red smoothies." -Lucia
"I like red smoothies too." Jane
"I like green smoothie." -Violet
"What makes a red smoothie?" -Elyse
"Strawberries." -Audrey
"I love strawberries." -C.C.
"I want to have smoothies." -Maxon
"I like yellow smoothies." -George
"What makes a green smoothie." -Melanie
No response
"Remember the soup we made for our Thanksgiving feast and we chopped vegetables? We chopped spinach. I would put spinach in my smoothie to make it green." -Melanie
"No we aren't talking in spinach." -Reed
"Would you like to make smoothies?" -Elyse
"We could make smoothies for everyone." -Sylvie
We now hope to make smoothies next Wednesday!

"I've been to lots of shows." -Sylvie

Sylvie and Maxon got out the puppet animals. The children were asked, "Has anyone know seen a puppet show?" Sylvie responded, "I've been to lots of shows." The children were then invited to have a puppet show. They mostly worked on upward building, more so than putting on a puppet show, but Maxon was still for it, "Let's have a puppet show."