We all have feelings, big and small, and sometimes many at once! This week was all about how to identify emotions in self and others, how to cope with big feelings and understanding what others may need when they are feeling big emotions.
We practiced the use of Buzzy Bee Breaths for when anger takes over.
We played games about identifying emotions, made play dough feeling faces, built feeling faces with painted rocks, crayon scriblbled our own "Worry", matching emotion face cards, painted a patterned bee to show any feeling. We also learned how colours can denote different emotions. We used this information to draw and paint faces with colours associated to each feeling and moved coloured buttons onto correct feeling faces in a baggie.
Some of the books we read surrounding emotions were;
The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
The Crayons' Book of Feelings by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
Glad Monster Sad Monster by Ed Emberely
Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival
Pete the Cat and the New Kid by Kimberely and James Dean
We started our letter learning this week. When learning letters we address a variety of literacy concepts such as letter identification in uppercase and lowercase, letter sounds, words that start with a particular letter and writing for those who are ready. We do all of this through song, dance, gross and fine motor work, and imaginative play.
We started our letter learning with the letters L and F. We are focusing on the capital letters that start with vertical and horizontal lines, excluding any curved letters. The kids sang and danced to letter songs, made these letters with their bodies, practiced using a ruler to make a ladder to write L in, built the letters using wood pieces, glued paper squares on a letter F and identified these letters in their journals by peeling and sticking stickers to the correct letter and made some Fabulous Food (pretend play) for Bella dog to try.
We practiced the use of Buzzy Bee Breaths for when anger takes over.
We played games about identifying emotions, made play dough feeling faces, built feeling faces with painted rocks, crayon scriblbled our own "Worry", matching emotion face cards, painted a patterned bee to show any feeling. We also learned how colours can denote different emotions. We used this information to draw and paint faces with colours associated to each feeling and moved coloured buttons onto correct feeling faces in a baggie.
Some of the books we read surrounding emotions were;
The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
The Crayons' Book of Feelings by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
Glad Monster Sad Monster by Ed Emberely
Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival
Pete the Cat and the New Kid by Kimberely and James Dean
We started our letter learning this week. When learning letters we address a variety of literacy concepts such as letter identification in uppercase and lowercase, letter sounds, words that start with a particular letter and writing for those who are ready. We do all of this through song, dance, gross and fine motor work, and imaginative play.
We started our letter learning with the letters L and F. We are focusing on the capital letters that start with vertical and horizontal lines, excluding any curved letters. The kids sang and danced to letter songs, made these letters with their bodies, practiced using a ruler to make a ladder to write L in, built the letters using wood pieces, glued paper squares on a letter F and identified these letters in their journals by peeling and sticking stickers to the correct letter and made some Fabulous Food (pretend play) for Bella dog to try.
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