So today we continued to learn all about emotions and feelings. At the touch and feel pool we sorted letters and numbers of all different colors and used the letters to spell words. We spelled our names and all the different feelings that we have been learning about this week. We also talked about each letter and its corresponding sound.
What a beautiful day to play outside! Ryan and Ethan were all about playing together today. They especially loved to play chase as they went through the tunnel, under the play equipment, up the steps, and down the slide over and over again. There was also some fun in the playhouse, some shopping cart races, and soccer. Hmm...I think a playdate is in order for these two peas in a pod!
Our book today, If You're Angry and You Know It!, by Cecily Kaiser did a great job of showing how people express anger. It uses the well know song, "If You're Happy and You Know It" and changes it to "Angry." For example, if you're angry and you know it stomp your feet, bang a drum, take a deep breath, etc. The book does a great job teaching kids how to express their anger in an appropriate manner. As we read the book, Ryan and Ethan pretended to be angry and to express their anger as the book told us to do.
For our art today we made feeling puppets. First, we reviewed the main types of feelings that we have been learning about this week...happy, mad, and sad; and we talked about what these faces look like. A happy face has a smile or laughter. A sad face has a frown and sometimes tears. A made face has angry eyes and mouth, and sometimes mad people stomp their feet, yell, or scream. Then Ryan and Ethan had to match the appropriate mouth (showing a specific emotion) to the the correct eyes (showing the same emotion). We labeled each face with the written word of the emotion given the cue, "Find the word that says sad. It starts with an /s/ sound." Finally, Ryan and Ethan glued these faces to popsicle sticks to complete their feeling puppets. We then used these puppets to act out their specific feelings.
After we finished our puppets, we had time for some sensory fun with shaving cream. We made sad, mad, and happy faces in the shaving cream; and we also worked on imitation of the pre-writing strokes of circle, horizontal, and vertical in the shaving cream. We talked about how it felt and smelled and how it made a really big MESS! Then we had the perfect opportunity to practice our good hand-washing technique while using our temporal concepts of first, second, third, etc as we followed the hand-washing steps displayed in the bathroom.
We had just a few minutes left before lunch to complete a firetruck puzzle. We talked about the front, middle, and back of the firetruck, and the sound that it makes along with a whole lot of other vocabulary as Ryan and Ethan used team work to put the puzzle together. It was another very busy day for us, and we had two very tired kiddos by the end of the day!
For practice at home today, I sent home "My Feelings Activity Book." As you read with Ryan and Ethan, talk about the emotions felt by the animals in the book and the expressions on their faces that indicate those specific emotions. Then you can have your boys color the pictures (paying attention to their crayon grasp :)) and ask them wh-questions as you read the book along with them....What are the ducks doing? How does the kitten feel when he is getting a bath? Who is standing on the ball? How many bunnies do you see? Where is the dragon fly? These are a few examples that might help. It's great to incorporate these types of wh-questions during shared reading with any book.
Have a great weekend! See you on Tuesday as we learn all about the five senses!
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