Meet our Roots of Empathy Baby - Isaiah!

This week, we began our Roots of Empathy Program.  This program is intended to teach caring and empathy in Kindergarten students. It is an evidence-based program that seeks to lower aggression in young children. You can learn more about this program at www.rootsofempathy.org.

The children will have the opportunity to learn from a unique teacher - a baby!

Meet our Roots of Empathy teacher: Baby Isaiah 
 

Baby Isaiah came to visit on Nov. 12th for the first time.  Before his visit, Ms. Switzer asked the students what they thought Isaiah would be doing and not doing at this time.  She also asked them to estimate how big he would be.  When he came to visit, we asked his Mommy questions and she answered "yes" or "not yet" for each one.

We lied the baby down and we compared him to a doll to see if the children were accurate in their estimates.  We also measured him with cubes (non-standard units).

He was about 36 cubes long.

Ms. Switzer checked to see if he noticed sounds by using a toy. He was more interested in the children!

We put him on his tummy to see how he would react.

We are so happy to get to learn about baby Isaiah!!  We sang to him as he said good-bye.