Discovering Principles in Nature: Circles

Discovering Principles in Nature: Circles

We took the children outside while saying a verse (?), and looked for circles in nature together. We noticed the sun in the sky, the flowers, tree trunks, seeds, and other round things. Next, we went back inside and sang our Gathering Closing Song, ending in a tight circle in the middle, and saying, “Thank you” as we closed our class. Those who were interested were invited to stay for an additional story. We read one of the 7 Habits of Happy Kids books by Steven R. Covey called (?)

We gave each family of children some bubbles to take home, along with a copy of our affirmation that day, “I Am Loved”, and handed the mothers a review sheet that highlighted a little of what our focus was that day, and included activities they could do at home to support and reinforce what we had done in class.

Discovering Principles: The Head leads the Whole Body

Discovering Principles
We explained that the ancient Hebrews also used the letters in their Alphabet as numbers. We asked what number we usually start counting with (1), and drew the number 1 on the board. We pointed out that we only have one head on our bodies, and asked how hard it would be to make decisions and do things if we had more than one head.

We asked how our heads help our bodies. Then we asked them to pinch their arm and see if they felt their skin telling their brain it is getting pinched. We also told them to look around the room for a particular color, and listen for a sound. We pointed out that our bodies send messages to our brain about what we experience. Then, our heads listen to our bodies, and learn what the world is like and what is going on around and to us. We mentioned that if we felt our stomach tell our mind that it is empty, our mind would know that we need to eat food to get more energy for our body to work well. Our head listens to our body, and then help us know and decide what to do.

Next, we had the children touch their toes, their nose, and other things, and asked how they got their body to move. We talked about how their mind helped them decide to obey our instructions, and sent messages to their muscles. Then, their muscles obeyed the instructions from their minds. We pointed out that our heads are very important, and they help take care of our whole body, not just parts and pieces of it. We asked if our heads ever want any part of our bodies to hurt, and explained, that they don’t, the head wants every part of our body to be as healthy and happy as possible! Even though our bodies are made of lots of different parts and pieces, our heads help all those parts work together as one, whole body. 

Exploration Activity & Movement: Moving Our Body

We told them we were going to use our heads to move our bodies to some music. We turned on some music and danced around, making all kinds of different circles as we did. We noticed circles on our bodies, and ways we can move our bodies in circles, like summersaults, spinning and such.

Present Box: Bubbles

We discovered a bottle of bubbles in our present box, and pointed that each bubble captures a little ball of air. We need air to live, and what a marvelous gift it is for us! We asked who the first person was to breathe on earth (Adam). We asked where Adam got his breath from (God). God gave Adam breath, and it has been passed down from Adam and his wife, Eve, to every living person, including each of us.

We took a moment to close our eyes, and be present with the present of air, through the breath flowing in and out of us for 3 breaths. Then, we pretended to blow a big bubble that was big and round above our heads that reminded us of the sun.