Last week, to end the month of October, we read the story Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley. We talked about each monster and how they felt. We also talked about things that made us feel happy, sad, scared, worried, loving and mad.
We also practiced showing how our face would look if we were sad, happy, mad, surprised or worried. We stood up and moved our bodies as if we were sad, happy or mad. We played a game where Teacher Heidi showed us a monster face and we said how we thought the monster was feeling based on how his face looked.
We sang the song If You're Happy and You Know It, but we changed it a little bit by changing the emotion we we were feeling (happy, sad, mad, loving, surprised, worried, scared) each time we sang and then we took turns telling the class the movement we would do to show that emotion.
This activity helped us to lean to identify and name our emotions. It also helped us to learn to recognize that others have feelings that may be the same as or different from ours. You can work on this at home by talking about feelings when your child is sad, happy or mad. You can help your child identify and verbalize their feelings by saying things like, "I see that you are sad because you cannot have a cookie right now.", or "I see that you are mad because brother took your toy.".
You can also watch a reading of the book Glad Monster, Sad Monster by searching the title on YouTube.
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