Busy Days in First Grade

We are continuing our focus on how we can be kind to others and to ourselves.  This is illustrated beautifully in these books:

and Sad, The Dog

We did a lesson about how words can help and heal our hearts.
As we read a book, each time the character's heart was hurt by others we crinkled a paper heart.  When someone was kind, we smoothed out the wrinkles.

However, we realized that the wrinkles/negative words never really get all the way smoothed out.  This illustrates why it's important to do our best to use kind words.

We have also been talking about our Hopes & Dreams and decorated balloons for our Hopes & Dreams.

 We look forward to sharing these hopes and dreams with our families during conferences these two weeks!