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Everyday Superheroes

Our last week of our August Mother Goose Time Superheroes theme has been extremely inspiring for my kids. They know about comic book superheroes already and all their amazing powers and abilities but I think it was eye opening to learn about people that are doing real life superhero jobs. This week we learned about firefighters, police officers, peace keepers, volunteers, and being a good neighbor. They were able to see that there are wonderful people in the world that are doing hero type jobs, and then realizing that they could be superheroes too.

We actually combined two of the days together this week since I was a little behind and I really want to start Septembers theme on time. I thought the Peacekeepers and the Volunteer days would go together nicely. We started of the morning watching a student news station I found for my daughter that tells all the major world news in easy to understand stories for younger audiences. It was great because they talked about the military and the work they are doing to help protect our country from possible missile launches. This opened up conversation about military men and women and the heroic jobs they have. We talked about how they not only help keep peace within our own country but that sometimes they get sent to other countries to help keep peace when they are facing dangerous times. We also talked about volunteers and the different types of jobs they have. A friend of mine is a peace corps volunteer and working in Uganda right now so I showed them pictures of where she is and described the work she is doing. We talked about people volunteering their time, money, and supplies to the people in Texas that are dealing with the floods, and we talked about volunteer jobs locally as well. I wanted them to know that volunteering could be as simple as organizing a beach clean up all the way up to committing 2 years of service to the peace corps. We then read the suggested stories which were really beautiful stories. While I read the stories they worked on the Give Joy activity from the teachers guide. Mother Goose Time provided a card, envelope, and some stickers. I gave them some magazines and markers. They each got to work making their cousin a card. We haven't seen him in over a year and they miss him a lot so they thought it might be nice to send him a little joy. My daughter pasted jokes and funny pictures on the card and my son used the stickers and drew him a picture. It was great because we were reading about filling peoples buckets and I am sure when he receives the cards in the mail his bucket will be filled.



In Last Stop On Market Street we learned that the main character and his Grandma were volunteering at a soup kitchen. My daughter and I have volunteered at a food bank packing bags for school kids to take home on weekends so they would have food to eat while they were at home. We decided that we need to find something like that in Washington so we can all go volunteer our time together again. My son was so excited about this possibility that he set up his own soup kitchen with his toys and served people.


He was very interested in where the food came from and what they served. He is excited about the possibility of helping people not be hungry. 

At the end of the day we did the Peace Badges activity. We were given a poster that we could write ways that we could help make peace. We really enjoyed this and thought of a lot to put on the poster.


I hung it on our wall and we will add to it if we think of other ways we can make peace. I really love this idea and I feel like it is so important for kids to be aware of making peace and filling buckets. We had a really great week!


*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*







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