Our fall unit was called "How About a Hand?".  Good literature can do a powerful job of helping young children learn the conventions and appropriate behavior in the community, school, and home.  Through 8 stories, the class will learn to help each other, value others, believe in themselves, treat smaller children with patience, work together, get along, recognize a need and seek a solution, realize that people are more similar than different, and understand that everyone is deserving of respect, without regard to race or physical/mental challenges.

We made Playdough as a follow up to lesson one:  Who Will Help?  The class read The Little Red Hen and learned that in order to have the reward you need to help with the preparations. 

We read Rose for Abby.  It is a story about a little girl who sees a homeless person and finds a way to help.  Our class is participating in the Giving Tree.  We are collecting new clothing for a family in need.