Homeschool - Its All About Me/Emotions

This weeks lesson was All About Me! And Emotions.

Dakota has been struggling lately with dealing with his emotions, and struggling with himself. So we decided to make an entire weeks lesson on these things to help him communicate just a little better :)

Here are a few things we touched on:




This is our weekly bulletin board. These are the things we worked on that we display. As you can see, each boy has a side of the board. They proudly hang their items and love looking at them all week!

We worked on "People Watching" We sorted through magazines and ripped pieces out. They were supposed to be people doing things but the kids got excited and started ripping out things they liked instead, so I rolled with it and we pointed to people in the magazines instead and discussed what they were doing - i.e. reading, sleeping, crying, playing at the park etc. 

We then thanked God for making us who we are, boys and girls and unique. Dakota wasnt really feeling this lesson, so he didnt try very hard but he sat and listened as we sang, Jesus Loves Me and I talked about the things that made us different i.e. Blond Hair, Brown Hair, Blue Eyes, Tall, Short etc.

We did some rainbow finger painting! We tried to draw some faces that were happy and sad, but ended up smearing the paint all over, because it was way more fun!

We made emotion puppets. So we could express how we were feeling. We tested them out and made funny sad sounds and happy sounds. We used these all week, they were so much fun that I think I will keep them out a little longer!

We had fun this week talking about what makes us different. We read a few books about Down syndrome because I have been waiting a long time to use them in a curriculum!

The books we read were:

We'll Paint the Octopus Red
I Can, Can You?
and
The Best Worst Brother
(This one is our favorite because it reminds us of our life)




And last but not least, I leave you with our silly Sunday morning faces!!
How can I resist!