Lewis Joy School

Today's lesson was - The Joy of Family Security, Identity and Pride Part 4

We started off with working on the "Joy Song". J is getting so good. We worked on the body motions for the words and he caught on really fast. 

We then made Puppets of our family. I tried to turn the old 1985 cartoon family the Joy School instruction book into looking like our own lil' family. J was pretty excited about them. I did some Puppet shows for him. Reminded me of when I played with dolls. I talked for the Puppets. I even did a thing where if the Mom Puppet was asking the Oldest Boy Puppet (Jason) what he should do... I moved the Boy Puppet over to J and had the Puppet ask J what he would do. It was cute because J would whisper to the Boy Puppet the answer and then I would talk for the Puppet again and have him tell the Mom puppet what J told him to say.

Next I told J a story - which I used our new Puppets with - about a boy asking his mom why she loves him. At the end of the story, J said, "You love me like the Mom Puppet loves the Boy Puppet right mom?" And I said yes of course. I love that boy!

Art Activity!!!  "Making a Family Home"

Because we have been talking about Family, Identity and Pride, J made our family home. He chose the outside to be Red - his Favorite color, and 4 windows - a window for each one of our family's rooms. He even let Dad and Mom share a room :) 

While J worked on gluing windows and shrubbery to his house, I discussed with him what he thinks makes a happy family. He said things like, "When we have fun" and, "When we are nice and not mean". I'm so surprised with some of the answers he gives me. He's such a smart lil guy - just like his Daddy.
We also discussed a new word - Traditions. When I was trying to describe this to J, he said, "Is it like Santa?" and I said Ya! When we leave cookies out for Santa, that is a family tradition we like to do.

J also was able to work on his "Book" work. For the first few pages, we are concentrating on Colors. I offered for him to use more colors on the page than the "Color" the page was about but J said, "No, (and then he pointed to the title of the page) see, this says 'What is Black', so I should only use Black."

This is the little note that would normally be sent home with the kids - but since I'm the mommy, I'll just show you what it said - 

Dear Mom and Dad,

     Today I learned that what makes a house a home is love. I'm so glad our house is a home! It makes me feel secure.

Over all, another great day at Lewis Joy School.