ANGRY FACES

Before work choices we looked at photos of angry faces.  Looking carefully at how our faces and bodies change when we are angry.  These are excerpts from our conversation.

Ms. Small: Look at these faces. What do you see?

Ren: They’re boys and girls.

Kaia: They’re mad and scared.

Ms. Small: Look at the shape of their mouths. What do you notice?

Ren: Some people have different mouths. They’re open and closed.

Livio: That’s kind of a scary face.

Eli: She’s not happy. She’s mad.

Ren: She’s actually going “Aargh!”

Livio: That one’s going to punch someone.

Kaia: There’s people pushing people.

Ms. Small: What do their arms say?

Ren: Go away!

Ms. Small: When you’re at school, what can you do when you’re angry?

Ren: You can calm down. You breathe. (He gave an example of how we breathe)

Kaia: Give people a hug.

Livio: You can talk to them.

Some friends also use child's pose.

Tomorrow we will talk about other tools we have at school to help us calm down when we get angry or frustrated.

I managed to buy some protective glasses so we could hammer nails into pumpkins. A good way to develop hand and eye coordination and it's a lot of fun.

                                          We continued with our corn stalk drawings. 

                      Before going outside we read Iggy Peck, Architect another book by Andrea Beaty.  

We ended our day with a hike to  Gravity Hill.   

QUESTIONS
What did Iggy Peck's teacher say that made him sad?

What is the safe way to hold a nail when hammering?