Function Continued

The role friendships play in our lives (function)

Continuing the work the children did last week, we explored this concept a little further making new connections. 

While sorting pictures, the children discussed what friendships do in our lives and identified a role they hadn't yet thought of!

• to have someone to play with
• to help and be helped
• to love

What does it look like when you play/help/love your friend? Using the sorting pictures for inspiration, the children thought of different scenarios that reflect these ideas and we took pictures. 

Friends play dress up.

Friends show love to each other.

Friends help clean up

Oliver Jeffers book "Up and Down" is a beautiful story of how friends help each other. What child can resist making a catapult?! We stepped outside and in pairs the children played together making a catapult with a ruler and block and sent balls of play dough high in the air taking turns helping each other to retrieve the little balls! Passerby's enjoyed the squeals of laughter that filled the air!

Helping each other launch the catapult!

While outside we had an unexpected visitor: a neighbourhood cat! This prompted many questions including "Can a cat be a friend?"