The Joy of Order and Goal Striving Day 1

Today was just lovely! Following our regular circle time activities, the children did a little show and tell with their Christmas presents. Grant shared his Star Wars Lego's... Eve shared her ladybug pillow pet... Joseph shared his robot... Isabel shared her baby penguin... and Emily showed up right in time to share her Rapunzel costume. It was a really fun activity and tied in well with reviewing sharing and gift giving and the feelings of happiness related to giving that they discussed at Liz's house before Christmas.

After a few stories related to setting goals, I was pleased with how well they really seemed to grasp the concept of goals. After I announced that they would be picking their own goal to work on, they continued to throw around a few ideas for the rest of the day. During our craft, which consisted of stickers, Eve suggested that Emily's goal be sharing stickers. That had me cracking up, especially since Emily protested that that is not what she wanted her goal to be.

The letter of the day was J. So perfect since J-J-JANUARY starts with the letter J. Naturally, our snack was J-J-Jell-o. Which Emily was thrilled about having just been at the dentist that morning. They also really had a fun time playing outside together, even though it was chilly. I made up a batch of fake snow in favor of winter, which they all had a fun time taking turns to play in.

For crafttime, we decorated the frames to their goal charts, which will come home at the end of the unit. The instruction was for them to go home and decide on a goal to work on for next time... I was excited to find out what they would choose.