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Today we continued to rebuild our feeders. Children found inspiration from their old ideas and used all they knew to build again. We also added our "no touch" signs to help remind our community to keep our feeders safe.  Of course, we continued our study of care and kindness by adding to our chain. JW wondered, what could we put on this tree? We could make it a kindness tree! We observed children sticking together, helping each other, taking turns, and creating friendships (even between their pet rocks)!

We asked children, "how can we take care of the school?" the other day. Being a good friend was a common theme and the teachers instantly looked at each other smiling because we had a connection moment... Another classroom, the Children of the Maple Room have been studying kindness throughout the year. They noticed the big wooden hearts all around the community wondering about how to spread kindness. They met with the Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation and that ignited a passion to spread kindness with hearts.  On a walk inside the building, children noticed the hearts. DL tallied the number of hearts as we walked So, the Children of Magnolia went to the Maple Room to see their documentation and learn more about their story. The Maple community invited us in to learn more about their work. We wondered...  How can we connect taking care with kindness? How can we care for our community?  Children came back to our room and thought about how to spread care using kindness from the ...

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Friends were so happy to play at school together.  They did a great job taking care of each other, taking turns, and playing cooperatively. We noticed that every child was engaged with a peer today and did a lot of problem solving.  "Is this water real?" We talked about being "professional" at the hair salon.  There has been a lot of silly business that needed to be shaped into staying safe and sticking together.  Being professional means you are doing the right thing!  I suggested that maybe they needed a manager ;). Several kids declared they were the boss!   June:  I'm the principal with you (Erin). Erin:  Oh really? June:  You were out on vacation.  So we are taking care it.