Teaching Children Joy:
Joy in the body Part 2
"What is joy is in the body! The joy of work and of hard purposeful effort, the joy of singing, the joy of sport and activity, the joy of tenderness and physical touch, the joy o controlling physical matter. Children have a tendency toward them all. Softly feel a baby's head, rough-house with a two-year-old, with a three-year-old squeeze shapes from a square block of clay, and you'll see the opening melodies of the body's joy." (From Teaching Children Joy. By Linda and Richard Eyre)
In our part 2 of Joy in the body Talk about:
What what different body parts can do
Make a large puzzle of the body out of paper
After we traced her body (I put a different part on each paper) I had her put the puzzle together.
I cut out each piece and had Fluttershy put together with tape.
Today's lesson was very simple, but very fun for a 4 year old. Now there is a picture of her on her bedroom wall. For the benefit of Rarity I had Fluttershy point to each body part and name them. Rarity likes to repeat what her sister says so she was repeating right along with her.
What a great idea on how to teach body parts.
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