About once or twice a year I wake up with a really good idea about how to teach something to the kids. Here's last weeks inspiration:
Make homemade lemonade
Have the kids taste the lemon juice--I wish I had gotten pictures.
Talk about how much they don't like it.
Add sugar and water to the lemon juice.
Talk about how much better the sugar makes it taste.
Talk about how Lemonade is like speaking to each other. We can speak sourly to each other or we can speak in a lemonade way.
Practice saying "I don't want to play with you" "Be quiet" and "Give that to me" in lemon juice ways and lemonade ways. The kids loved this part (except grumpy Jordan wouldn't participate--but I could tell he wanted to). They exaggerated speaking really mean and then really nice.
The best part: they got it and I didn't even lecture (a terrible tendency of mine).
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6 comments:
I love that idea! Thanks so much for sharing it!
You are very clever on many levels. Impressive. :)
Great idea Mrs. June Cleaver :)
You are brilliant! I hope your summer is going well!!
LOVE the idea! I'm going to have to remember it for sure!!
Great idea! I love your little lessons! We did it yesterday with limes and had a nice little lesson along with yummy limeade all afternoon. I thought of you each time. I told the kids when I hear them arguing- hey just like now! if they are "sweet" or "sour." Xander just replied "sour" and changed his ways. THANKS! It works great!
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