We have turned our pink shop into a friendship house. This is my favorite thing the pink shop has been so far.......wait I say that every time. Anyway we will be using the friendship house to provide a safe place for teachable moments and bonding with our school family. Our first circle time activity using the Friendship House was talking about words. We can use pillow words or sand paper words. I had a fuzzy cozy pillow and asked all the children.... Do you like pillows? How does a pillow make you feel? We passed around the pillow and talked about what we liked about it. I passed sandpaper out and let the children feel and talk about the sandpaper. After we explored the two objects we talked about how we can use pillow words or sandpaper words to talk about our feelings! So far it has been a hit! The children are being more conscious of their language with their friends and dishing out compliments(pillow words) like they are going out of style.
We will keep building on this idea until the kids are ready to move on. It will be interesting to see everything we decide to add and explore. More importantly I can't wait to see the children's friendships blossom and their life tool box full of tools they will use for the rest of their lives!
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