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April 13-17, 2020
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Character Trait of the Week - Emotions
It’s important to to recognize her feelings. Naming your emotions is a good way to teach children about their emotions.
Example:
Say, “You look sad right now,” or “I can tell you are mad.” Name your emotions too by saying, “I am sad that we can’t go visit your friend today,” or “I’m angry that those kids were being mean today.”
You can also have conversations about feelings by talking about characters in books or on TV shows. You can ask questions such as, “How do you think this character feels?” and "Why do you think that character feels this way?"
With practice, your child’s ability to identify his/her emotions will improve.
Character Book of the Week
CLICK THIS LINK TO HEAR THE BOOK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIfLgHBwYx4
In My Heart by Jo Witek
In the book, the author describes feelings in wonderfully creative ways that you can close your eyes and pictures.
For this activity, students choose four emotions (or fewer) and come up with creative ways to describe how they feel.
- Silly feels like a group of gobbling turkeys.
- Calm feels a tree swaying in the breeze.
- Mad feels like booming thunder.
You can abbreviate this to 1 or 2 feelings. If your students struggle to come up with metaphors for their feelings, they can come up with synonyms for feelings or identify when they feel that way. https://www.socialemotionalworkshop.com/2019/04/in-my-heart-feelings-activities/