Emotion Musical Walk

Emotion Musical Walk

This week in large group, we reviewed the story of Emo Egg and talked about the emotions he felt on the day he went to preschool.  We practiced showing each emotion our faces.  We then played a game where we danced to the music and when it stopped, we found an Emo Egg face to stand on.  We told the person next to us what emotion was showing on that face and then made it ourselves.  This activity helped us work on the preposition, next to, as well as using words to express thoughts and actions and recognizing emotions.  

Egg Hunt

Last week in Large Group, we talked about eggs.  We talked about what animals lay eggs. We looked at a big book that had pictures of many different eggs.   We talked about each egg; the big ones, small ones, pointy ones, round ones, oval shaped ones, white ones, colored ones and speckled ones.

We then played a game where we stood up in a circle and took turns talking an egg from Teacher Heidi's basket.  Each egg had a different amount of dots on it.  We counted the dots and then got to choose what movement we we do that many times.  We jumped, we clapped, we did jumping jacks, we hopped, we turned in a circle, we ran in place, we touched our toes and we even flew like birds.  

This activity helped us practice counting and it also helped us work on answering "wh" questions, as well as, using 1-4 words to make comments.  We also worked on using verbs as we described what action we were doing....jumping, clapping, running, hopping or flying.

The Emotion Game

The week of April 14-17  in Large Group, we played the Emotion Game.  Before we played, we reviewed the story of Emo Egg and talked about some of the emotions that Emo felt and how his face looked.  We then stood in a circle and we used our emotion and action dice to play the game.  One friend tossed the emotion dice to tell us how we were going to feel and another friend tossed the action dice to tell us what we were going to do.  We sang about the emotion and did the action to an adapted version of the song, If You're Happy and You Know It.  We sang...if you're happy, happy, happy clap your hands.  If you're happy, happy, happy clap your hands.  If you're happy clap your hands, if you're happy clap your hands, if you're happy, happy, happy clap your hands.  

We sang different words and did different actions to the song depending on what happened when we threw the dice.  We sang about being mad, scared, tired, sad, surprised and happy.  We growled, jumped, shouted hooray, clapped our hands, took a nap and stomped our feet. 

You can play this game at home by thinking of an emotion and asking your child what action they think would go with that emotion.  You can sing the song and do the action together.

EMO EGG

This week for Large Group, we met Emo Egg.  Emo goes to preschool just like we do.  We heard a story about Emo's day at preschool and we learned about different emotions he felt and how his face looked when he felt them.  We practiced making those emotions with our faces.  

You can play an emotion game at home by showing your child different emotions on your face and have them guess how you might be feeling.  You can switch places and have them show the emotions on their face and you have to guess. 

Egg Emotions

This week for Large Group, we talked about our new sound, the "g" sound or the frog sound.  We practiced saying the sound by itself and in words.  We also practiced saying the "g" sound in the word go when we sang the song, Go In My Car.

Teacher Heidi brought a big colored egg for us to look at.  We talked about how the word egg ends in the "g" sound and we practiced saying it.

Teacher Heidi introduced us to her egg friends and we looked at their faces and talked about how they might be feeling.  We met Emma Egg that was happy and Ethan Egg that was scared.  We meet Evelyn Egg that was tired and Eric Egg that was mad.  We practiced making different faces; happy, sad, tired, disgusted, mad, surprised and scared.

We talked about frowny and smiley faces and sang a song about them while we turned our own egg face to the frowny and smiley faces.

You can practice identifying and verbalizing feelings at home by talking about how you are feeling.  You can read stories and talk about what you see when you look at people's faces.  Talk about if you see a smile or a frown.  Ask your child if someone in a story looks happy or sad.  When your child is sad or happy, verbalize why they might be feeling that way.  An example of this would be to say, "I see you are sad because you fell and hurt your knee." or "I see you are happy because your friends are coming over to play."

The "G" Sound-The Frog Sound

For the month of March, we are working on the "g" or the Frog Sound.  This sound is made by keeping your tongue back and using your voice to say "g".  If you put your hand on your neck when you say this sound, you can feel your voice vibrating to make the sound.  

We practiced saying the "g" sound by itself and in words.  This month we are going to be singing the Go In My Car song because it helps us practice saying "g" in the word "go".  When we sing the song, we use our hands to sign the word "go" as we sing.  Ask your child to show you how to use their hands to say the word "go".

You can work on this sound as home with some of the following activities:

-Have a race between cars.  Ask your child to say "go" at the beginning of each race.

-Set up a goal and kick a ball through it.  Ask your child to say "goal" each time a goal is made.

-Play with toy cars and trucks.  Model the word "gas" by going to get "gas" in the car or truck.

-Have your child put gum balls into a container saying "gum" for each one.

-Practice the word "gone" by having your chid say "all gone" when a snack is finished or when toys get put away or when a family member leaves.