Right now our kiddos may be showing us an array of emotions. Initially, we may think they are just cranky or getting stir crazy, but maybe we need to look deeper into the presentation and determine whether it is coming from this underlying emotion of Anxiety. Kids often express themselves in ways that make it hard to connect the dots. We have to do our best to ask questions, gain understanding behind the outburst or tears, so we know how to best support and provide alternative methods.
Some may need to be adapted for home!
Simply exploring our basic emotions is a key learning target with our early primary students. If a child is able to understand and identify an emotion, they can begin to develop the strategies to regulate those emotions and better identify them in others. This identifying in others leads to our life skill of empathy. This video is so fun in identifying and modeling some of those basic emotions.
Also, check out our Mindfulness and Happy, Mind, Body, & Soul pages for some great new activities shared!