April 9,2026
Our morning started by reviewing our circle time rules and the community helper that we learned yesterday.
- Dance
We made the class to listen to a song and asked them to think of dance steps.
P: snow angels
A: I can listen (hands on ear)
R: to be a good friend (made a thumbs up sign)
E: I can share (made a giving motion)
- Circle Time Rules
E: eyes on the speaker
K: hands and feet quiet
S: raise your hand
K: ears listening
H: lips closed
I: hands and feet quiet
K: sit like a giraffe
- Review
What did we learn yesterday?
A: I played with cookie and it’s not broken
R: we make candies together.
What was yesterday’s book about?
R: bicycle ! when we need to connect the parts together. The car will know which box to take to the home. They put the box to the airplane and finish.
Where are bicycles made?
H: factory
Who made bicycles in the factory?
R: Factory workers… factory owners… they look if the workers are doing a great job.
Whose family owns a factory?
E: mine! They also sometimes help.
Who wants to be a factory worker?
J: Me! I want to make a pancake!
Then we moved on to our question of the day; “Do our actions affect others?”. We shared our answered and began to think about the things we do that affects our friends and community.
- Question of the day
E: Can your…
K: Do our…
H: affect others
J: actions
What does action mean?
S: kick
H: we also kick in the swimming pool
If we sing too loud, what could happen to people next to us?
K: too loud
S: it’s going to be too noisy
R: ear will break. My grandma put water in her ears and then she couldn’t hear.
To help us understand more about the effects we have in our community, we did the domino activity. We carefully lined up dominoes and watched what happened when one domino was pushed. One small action made all the dominoes fall. We learned that just dominoes, one wrong choice can affect people around us.
- Domino Activity
What will happen if I push this?
R: Then this one will push and this one will push…..
Why didn’t everything fall down?
S: because blue and blue were not close (to each other)
Next, we explored cause and effect through different scenarios. We talked about different community helpers not doing their jobs and how it will affect us. We realized that some actions could make others get hurt.
- Cause and Effect Group Discussion
Group 1: E, K, A
Group 2: H, I, P
Group 3: R, J, S
What will happen if the police officers suddenly stopped catching bad guys?
Group 1: Things will get stolen
Group 2: Bad guys steal more things
Group 3: Bad guy will run away to other people’s home
What will happen if the doctors suddenly don’t want to help sick people?
Group 1: The people will get sick and they will die sometimes
Group 2: They will die
Group 3: People will get sick and sometimes they will die
What will happen if fire fighters stop putting off fires?
Group 1: People will get hot and hot and cook and then they die.
Group 2: The fire will get bigger and bigger and they will die.
Group 3: Sometimes they’re gonna be stuck and sick and they cannot go outside and they they will die.
What will happen if Laura, Cameron and Evita stop teaching the class?
Group 1: We will get not clever
Group 2: People will not learn
Group 3: The friend who doesn’t know English will not learn
If all the community helpers stops doing their job, would our community be good or bad?
Group 1: bad! People will die and die
Group 2: No! All the people will die
Group 3: No! because we didn’t work together.
What is a community?
R: group of people who work together.
What will happen if we don’t clean after playing?
S: house gonna be messy
A: The world will be smelly
P: The room will be dirty
What will happen if we have a dirty room?
R: (it will be a) messy school
H: rats will come
E: we cannot play there
What will happen if we can’t play?
R: We will be angry
K: We will cry
J: Shelley will throw us out in jail
H: But in jail they have toilet
What will happen if we are all in jail?
J: We will be sad
A: You can’t see mommy and daddy and you cannot see your brother or sister.
What are the things that you do in class that make our school community not good?
P: punch
E: kick
R: throwing water in someone’s eye
K: hit
R: saying bad words (unkind words)
How can we it better?
E: take turns
J: don’t punch
H: tell the truth
By the end of the day, we learned that actions big or small can affect everyone. We will continue to practice making kind and responsible decisions to make our school community better! Thank you and see you all tomorrow!
Love, Flower