Our Adventures: Wee School: Letter U

Monday, March 23, 2015

Wee School: Letter U

Wee School Letter U: We started off our day reading Clorinda Takes Flight by Robert Kinerk. This is a fun book about a cow who wants to fly, and so she builds all sorts of flying contraptions. They all fall apart except the hot air balloon, which gets them across the ocean to visit the Queen, and then back again to their farm. We had lots of fun picking out all the things in the book that go Up--an airplane, helicopter, etc.

Then we sat down for a thinking activity: we had to separate the pictures of things that go Up and things that go Under. The kiddos did great--some of the "Under" things were a little abstract...(grass grows Under our feet, a chair goes Under the table, we sleep Under the blankets, etc.)

Then we played Run Under the Broom (otherwise known as limbo...haha)

We finished off day 1 with the alphabet puzzle review. The girls were really into finishing the puzzle!

Day 2 of letter U we took a field trip to the UPS plant (it helps to know someone on the inside...and those cinnamon rolls every christmas probably don't hurt, either)! We had a UPS scavenger hunt: we had to find a UPS truck, UPS hat, box, conveyer belt, etc. The managers very graciously took us on a tour, showed us the boxes, turned on the conveyer belt, and we got to go in a truck and everyone got to honk the horn!

we even got to line up holding safety signs!

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viktor frankl

love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. no one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. by his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. by making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

nelson mandela

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. it is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. we ask ourselves: who am i to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? actually, who are you not to be? you are a child of god. your playing small does not serve the world. there's nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel secure around you. we are born to make manifest the glory of god that is in us. it's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. as we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.