Today, during circle time, we read Making Friends. For our first small group activity, we discussed emotions with pictures of animals making faces, and then we used clothespins to identify which animals' facial expressions matched. For our second small group activity, we compared the feeling of cotton balls to sand paper. We discussed how using nice words and actions with our friends is soft and feels nice like the cotton ball, while yelling or being mean would compare to the sand paper. For our final and large group, we practiced "rubbings" by putting cardboard with faces drawn in hot glue under our papers and then coloring over them to make the face appear! We had a terrific Thursday.