Good. I like having diverse group of kids personality wise.

Today’s animal - cat Talked abt cats both in wild and domesticated Made a pompom cat with pipe cleaner ears and legs. Made balloon cat face with paper ears

Good. I like having diverse group of kids personality wise. Makes it fun

Today’s animal - cat Talked abt cat & made a pompom cat with pipe cleaner ears and legs and a ballooon cat face with paper ears

Good. But I opened the door on an ongoing class and I felt bad. The class starts at 3:15 but the teacher there told me that they also end at that time so I have to wait till that last min.

Made yellow slime with dark green and light green glitter.

Alright for me but couple of kids started to feel sick today (stomachache & headache). A little menstrual pain for me too. Told them to sip on some water and stretch and rest.

Meditation Stretch Kids count out 1-4 (line leader) 5-8 (everyone else) much better now while we do the suri-ashi laps. New strike practice - kote, push, do Battles

Happy I was able to be surrounded with such a wonderful caring kids to talk about our own species.

Human was an animal of the day. We talked about human evolution and what we are as a species. How we had all these emotions and beliefs since the Stone Age. Started making tools, hunt, farm, domesticating other annimals, etc. And how there used to be 14 different types of human species before us. I had a parachute guy, balloon sword, and a dog ready but we only ended up doing the balloons. Making tools and having a pet dog like a human.

Kids stayed at their tables more after reminding about last week. Much less slimes on the floor and chairs today

Made slime Used clear glue and shaving gel instead of white glue and shaving cream to see it it would be clear, but slime still came out white. Colored it with red or/and yellow Put glitters

During the free fight, one kid told me to join, so I did and everyone started fighting me! It was so fun, and a lot of us got so tired by the end of today’s class. I also talked to the kids about dance party button and the kid who tapped it last week said, “no it’s ok we promise we won’t tap it” when I was trying to take it off and wasn’t coming off. I made everyone raise their pinky and promise it, and they never tapped it.

Silence / chinmoku Suriashi laps with line leaders counting 1-4, rest counting 5-8 in Japanese Strikes practices Today, we did 1-20 men And went around to let each kids do 5 strikes with shinai/bamboo sword. Free fight during break Battles 2 Samurai quote cards

Lots of kids were so excited about how fluffy and chunky the yarns I brought for tails. Had to remind couple of kids not to steal materials. - more than half of big yarns into her sweatshirt.

Started working on new type of paper chinchilla (easier) Finished the origami chinchilla we started in the beginning (harder)

Pretty good! Class went smooth Today, I told kids that class starts “now” as they lined up outside, and we did suri-ashi all the way up the stairs to our classroom. I also decided to give myself 2 min water break out of 5 min and gave kids the chance to free fight for 3 min while I’m watching as a movement break. I think I’ll keep doing those 2 things from now on. It helps kids get in the samurai mode right away, and helps me from giving too much timeouts for kids who just really want to fight whenever they get the chance.

Suri-ashi from parking lot to the classroom 10 sec. Chinmoku Stretch Suriashi 2 laps right 2 laps left Strike practice kneeling with left, With suriashi forward and back Changing speed, finishing fast counting to 20 in Japanese. Partner strikes practice Kote-men Men-do Break Chinmoku & bow Battles Samurai quite

Both last week and today, I started a class with meditation. Last time, it was because a kid screamed. Today, so they can decide their wish to write down. I think those pauses worked well, because without even giving them 10 seconds, I hear “idk what I wish for!” Or “idk the next step, can you please help me!?” Before I even show/ teach the next step. I tell them, try by yourself 3 times, then ask your classmate, then me. Or I give them 2 min to figure it out just by watching demonstrations

Wrote wishes to a paper Folded it into a 2 dancing red crowned crane lucky charm Decorated it