100 Acts Of Kindness Celebration!

We did it we managed as a group to show 100 acts of kindness! Today we had our celebration and had lots of fun. The children exchanged Valentine cards and of course shared lots of snacks.

We learned a lot about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The most requested movie duirng our Fun Fridays' activities is this one.

The sweetest thing ever is when Franklin brought his baby picture in for show and tell. After our sharing time I noticed Franklin placed his picture on the Peace Table right next to the picture of  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I can tell that Frankin was really identifying himself with this powerful leaderful.                                                                    

This is what our heart garland looks like. We decided it would be easier if we counted each heart as two. The children loved counting by twos everyday.

                                                                             
 With all of the excitement I was not able to get too many pictures during our celebration. The pictures I did get were right on time.

                                       Exchanging Valentines.

                                Eating grapefruit for the first time.

                                                                  
                                                                          
What I loved about our 100 acts of kindness celebration is that the children have a positive perspective on this special day. I hope that they will continue with their  acts of kindness throughout the year. It also put a different spin on what Valentines' Day is as Andrew put it " Today is Kindness day".  To me it takes the commercial aspect right out the picture. Well I hope everyone is enjoying this special day! I can't help thinking about Olives and Pickles she lost her grandmother this past week. If you have the time I request that you get caught doing an act of kindness and  offer them some encouraging words during their time of grief.

100 Acts of Kindness ( Montessori Monday)

 Last week was a wonderful week. Unfortunately I didn't take that many photos, but I still wanted to share the ones I did take.

                                                  Sandpaper numbers.

                                        Multiplying with the large bead frame.

                                      Learning the parts of the computer project.

 
                                 Writing with corn meal.

                                          Working with blue objects.

                                                   Knobless cylinders.

Jessica completed this brown stair extension not by a presentation but by observing the older children when they were doing this. Jessica is working with the brown stairs that are specifically for the toddler age being introduced to this work. They are the same as the brown stairs that the preschoolers use just only six stairs instead of ten.

                                                  Color mixing.

                                                                
   Here are some pictures of how we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

                                                   We read a few stories.

                                                                  
                                                             Colored pictures of him.

 Celebrated Martin Luther King Jr's birthday with a Happy Birthday song and some cake.

                                                                             
 Here is the icing on the cake while reading a post on livingmontessorinow.  I found out about the 100 Acts of Kindness Project at the wonderful blog Toddler Approved! The first challenge was to have the children in your lives cut out ten hearts and give them to ten different people. The project started on January 18 and continues to February 14th when you will have a celebration party to celebrate your 100 Acts of Kindness. It is not too late to join the project. I spoke with my kids on Friday about this and they were excited.
                      
         DJ  got really good at cutting hearts out and didn't stop at ten.

                                                                  
  Here are the hearts that were are using to record our 100 acts of kindness. We are going to make a garland with these.

                                                                                 
 So part of the rules in this project is that someone else has to report your acts of kindness. This is fun! When DJ was reminded of this you should of seen how many things he did for his sisters to get them to report his kindness.

To make the hearts accessible to the children when acts of kindness are reported I placed the hearts on our peace table. Our peace table displays a picture of the peacemaker we are learning about. Right now we are still learning about Dr. King our next peacemaker will be Mahatma Gandhi.

 Today I will be sending home a letter to the parents about our 100 Acts of Kindness project so I can involve the children that come here to learn everyday.

  So far three acts of kindness have been reported this is how our heart garland looks today.
                                                                               

   

 To see what other lessons children have been doing inspired by the montessori method please visit Montessori Monday hosted by One Hook Wonder.