five little monkeys book eileen christelow

Another child comes over with a paper towel and helps you wipe it up, is this a thumbs up/down? You fell down while running on the playground and someone laughs at you, thumbs up/down?) (You are playing in the blocks and another child comes in and goes right up to your building and knocks it down and laughs, is this a thumbs up, or thumbs down? You are getting some water to put into the water table and you spill some on the floor by accident. Make up scenarios or use ones you have seen in your classroom and ask the children if it is a thumbs up or thumbs down? After you have run several scenarios pass the children, older children might like to try making one up. When they hear a thoughtless or mean idea make a thumbs down. Have them make a thumbs up sign and tell them that when they hear a kind/friendly idea make a thumbs up. Ask them if they know what it means to tease somebody? Ask them how they feel when somebody teases them? After the children have shared their experiences about teasing, tell them that you are going to play a game.

Tell the children that you want to talk to them about teasing. Tease (to make somebody mad on purpose or to be purposely hurtful).Scolds (to tell somebody off, to speak angrily to another).Bits of tree parts (bark, leaf, stickbud, seed).A basket the children can use for picnic play.This is a fun counting/subtraction bookīased on a popular finger play.

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Multiple Intelligence and Children’s Learning.

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Five little monkeys book eileen christelow