The Grouchy Ladybug

Today in our quest to learn more about feelings we read a wonderful story about an unlikable ladybug that will not share.  She is confrontational, ill-mannered, and just plain grouchy.  The story begins very early in the morning with two ladybugs arriving to feast on a bunch of aphids covering a leaf.  The grouchy ladybug will not share so she heads off angrily to pick on someone bigger to fight.  She travels for twenty-four hours and ends up right back where she started only somewhat more contrite and a little wiser for the wear.  In this entertaining story, there are lessons about the passage of time, relative sizes, and the importance of manners and being nice. 

Each child had a chance to decide whether they were more like the grouchy ladybug or the nice ladybug. We found several grouchy ladybugs in our preschool room today...let me introduce you:

                                   Grouchy Bridger

                                   Grouchy Heather

                                     Grouchy Gage

                                    Grouchy Haley

                                    Grouchy Alyssa

                                   Grouchy Zaden

                                   Grouchy Mia

                                  Grouchy Cayson

                                  Grouchy Noah

Playing games like match the number of spots on the Ladybug and making Patterns with Ladybugs and flowers made most of our grouchies go away.

Today, we also received our very first homework folders. Tonight we have real homework. We get to practice making patterns with mom and dad, we need to write Ff four times and return it to Miss Julie on Friday, and oh-boy, we get to count the eggs in the refrigerator.