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😺😼😾😿🙀 Emotions 😺😼😾😿🙀
''Dear children & parents,
The Covid-19 era is over floated with emotions and it is the perfect time to work on what we feel with our children. I chose five emotions -happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised-for the lesson that I think are the most common. I hope you like it.''
Key words: feel, happy, sad, angry, surpised, scared
Learning objectives: To name these five emotions, be able to identify them, match each of them with the right face expression and understand when we feel these emotions.
Materials/preparation: paper rolls, markers, cardboard, balloon, flour, spoon, funnel
😢Introducing the feelings
To open the subject you can question your child when he/she is happy, if it lasts for ever and what other feelings he/she might have felt. Then, take a piece of paper and draw gradually the emotions we are working on one by one. Name them and try to describe why the face expressions are like this ex. when we see/hear something shocking most of the times we open our mouth due to thesurprise or
we feel sad when we don't succeed to do something we want and try for. Then, ask your child to make his/her own faces that feel these emotion and name them.
😮Matching game
This a cute and easy game that can also work in a class. Cut in the middle those paper rolls you are saving and draw the 5 feelings. Cut out of cardboard small pieces that can fit in the rolls and draw the same faces. Give the pieces to the child and you keep the rolls. Call to find the happy face and put it in the right roll. Do the same for all of them. This way they have to identify and match the right face exression that escorts the emotion.
Note💥You can dodouble cards and more emotions to create a DIY memory game.
😲Sing and dance
In the following link you can a find an action song that includes emotions and moves. You can add your own emotions and extra moves also ''If you are happy..''. Encourage your child to sing and move with you.
Lyrics:
If you're happy happy happy clap your hands(x4)
If you're angry angry angry stomp your feet(x4)
If you're scared scared scared say, ''Oh no''(x4)
If you're sleepy sleepy sleepy take a nap..(x4)
😀Pantomime
It is time to act and imitate the faces on the rolls. Sit down with your child facing each other. The child should have the emotion card from the previous activity faced down. Pick one card at the time without showing it to you and imitate the feeling so you can guess. Then you can swap rolls and let your child guess and name the emotions you reflect.
😤Squeezy balloon face craft
Use a funnel from your kitchen or make a diy from a plastic bottle like I did by cutting the top and you can use the bottom of the bottle to put the flour in and the child can transfer it into the funnel to fill the balloon. Sometimes you will have to push the flour down with a pencil. Pour flour until is full and tie it. Let your child decide which emotion is the one for the squeezy balloon and draw it with a permanent marker.
Note: It's great idea for adults also to fight the daily stress.😉
