Glad Monster, Sad Monster

This week for Large Group, we read the book Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley and Anne Miranda.  As we read this book, we looked at the pictures and talked about what we saw when we looked at the monsters faces.  We talked about how we can tell how our friends are feeling by looking at their faces.  After we finished reading the story we looked at some monster masks that show many different emotions.  We played a game to see if we could tell how each monster felt by what we saw when we looked at their faces.  We talked about things that make us feel happy, sad, worried, scared, silly or mad.  This activity helped us work on social and emotional development, being able to identify and name the emotions that we feel and recognize that others have feelings that might be the same or different than our own.  It also helped us learn about having empathy for our friends and how they are feeling.

You can work on this at home by describing how you are feeling and recognizing and verbalizing how your child is feeling based on their actions.