According to Psychology Today, our children's ability to care about others must be nurtured in early years. The wonderful thing about caring is that so many conduits through which we can communicate its messages that can impact us. When we immerse ourselves in a sea of messages of caring, we are all but assured of getting the messages across. Besides being fun to work with materials like beads to create our names chain, it gives Lukah the confidence to manipulate everyday objects. Initially, it can be seen to be pretty challenging to master. After some time, and with more practices, helps him to overcome this challenge. Through this learning experience, Brooks demonstrates his strength in working with his finger muscles. He is too observed to build concentration and patience throughout. Small moments are also what we enjoy in our learning experiences to appreciate sensory. In this instance, we include our handmade soaps as part of our learning experience involving sensory. Balance, touch, movement, and hearing are all involved to hold and transfer a certain amount of liquid to the tray for the soaps to solidify. Valentine's Day provides various learning experiences for us to learn the values of giving, as one of the many attributes of caring. We love singing, and we love playing musical instruments. So we attempt to figure out how to put them together as our ways of expressing our feelings. We understand practicing music is a creative pursuit. Learning to play an instrument does wonders to the creative side of our brain. To Emily, it is upon her to put her own stamp on a piece. When she strikes a mallet onto the xylophone, she injects her personality into it. This provides Emily a healthy and composed way to channelize her inner feelings. We attempt to rise up to the challenge! Initially Nora strums the strings of the ukelele and next adds her lyrical voice. By doing this, she is multi-tasking two different endeavours. It takes concentration and coordination. Brooks includes a xylophone to incorporate musical concepts like rhythm, melody, and changes in pitch. When comes to the challenge to add sounds with his voice, he unhesitatingly sings a repertoire of his dear loved ones onto the music. Making a heart garland, to practice patterns and stringing, helps us to be grateful of the love we receive. Emily enjoys pushing cotton balls into the heart-shaped felt fabrics. Broodks challenges himself to handle a glue gun to seal the heart-shaped felt fabrics. By using a glue gun, he learns to keep own safety by understanding of how the tool works. Making connections with safety, we agree to unpack the meaning behind our spoken words. Sometimes we say words which we are unsure of their effects on our feelings or emotions. For example, you are not in my team anymore. As much as we learn to form sentences, they may become more complex. We agree when we experience an intense emotion, we may lose the ability to phrase our words. As a result, we struggle to find the words to convey exactly what we mean, We may say things we do not mean, things that do not make sense. By listening to the message underneath our words, we are learning to rephrase in positive ways. We definitely continue to communicate our emotions in a healthier way to nourish our caring relationship. We too value the feeling of giving and receiving gifts. For sharing gifts nurtures our abilities to learn about practicing empathy, besides sharing joy! We look deeper into this traditional practice of giving. Research informs us that gift-giving process embodies us shaping our identities. We make a point to talk about the significance behind this gift-giving and the actions that come with it. Finally, the day has arrived! Our highly anticipated field-trip to George C. Reifel Bird Sanctuary. After many days we practice using our binoculars to view with a sense of clarity, it is time to bring them closer. With so much fascination, we enter into the sanctuary. The entrance area is surrounded with friendly ducks more than we can count. Strolling along the trails, from wide open bordering the wetlands to forested paths. Feeding the ducks and chickadees is greatly enjoyed by us and of course, the birds. We push ourselves to be courageous to let the birds sit on our palms. It is indeed a strategy to invite the birds feel safe to come close. Stretching our palms openly and keeping our voice down manage to attract the birds consume the seeds. What a beautiful place to visit! Its serenity makes us not want to go back. If we could pause the time, we would love to stay longer. It's time for us to build our own bird-friendly backyard by planting native plants. Kindest,
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