Morning Meeting: wave breathing before a hard topic · Week 6, Monday · 10 min

Open with three wave breaths. Breathe in slowly through the nose as the wave gathers and rolls toward shore, pause as the wave crests, breathe out as it falls back. Then reconnect it to what has changed: 'This is the ocean we have been getting to know, and this week we learn about how people can hurt it. Some of that can feel heavy. Breathing like the ocean helps us stay steady while we think about hard things.'

• Gather at last week's food web with a plastic bag, or a photograph of ocean plastic.
• Literacy follows with Somebody Swallowed Stanley by Sarah Roberts, chosen because it shows real harm without frightening: gentle, rhyming, and it resolves. Chart the chain of cause and effect as you read.

Morning Meeting and Enrichment · Week 1, Monday · 60 min

• Circle time sky observation: children share what they already know about the sky.
• Interactive storytelling that introduces the theme: looking up and wondering.
• Enrichment: a group mural of the night sky with collaborative star placement, then a movement activity simulating zero-gravity exploration.