At the moment we are homeschooling our children and one of the subjects was on Social Emotional Learning. The objective was to make a card for your friend, cut out the card. Write a friend’s name. Fold on the line then hand it to someone in the class.
As I read it to my son, he was quick to say that he misses his friends so much and he would rather send them a card. I offered for us to create a card to send to one of his friends that he misses. If he could, he would have sent it to a dozen people including the kids down the street.
So we made a couple of cards together. I was inspired by a cartoon drawing about a pair of mushrooms missing each other so mush. And instead of drawing it out. Corban chose construction paper. I made the shapes and Corban helped cut the shapes out. We glued the scene together and I penned some facial expressions to finish it off. It is so adorable!
It was sized to fit in an envelope. We addressed it and he had the pleasure of licking the envelope, stamping and putting it in the mailbox.
He is working through the Top Student workbooks by Evan-Moore, but on this lesson. I believe that this direction was better and could lead to learning about emotions and building relationships.
When is the last time you wrote a handwritten letter to a loved one or created a greeting card with your children? Make that into a homeschool project.
