February, 2022

February - Emotions and Artistic Representation

Featured February Activities

Emotional Self Portraits -

Emotional Morning Meetings!

Getting outside!

Letter practice!

Math practice!

Featured February Activities

Feelings Books:

Each child posed for four photos, one with a happy face, one with a sad face, one with a mad face and one with a scared face. They then used those to create a book about their feelings. They chose the color of each page based on the emotion it represents to them. They then answered the question, "what makes you feel..." and for sad, mad, and scared, followed up with, "what makes you feel better." Finally, they illustrated a picture of a day that represents each feeling. We had a great time sharing our books with our friends and exploring the similarities and differences of our feelings.

Emotional Self Portraits -

Students chose one emotion to focus on, and using their photo for inspiration, carefully drew their facial features. We discussed what features showed their emotion, looking closely at eyes, eye brows, and mouths.

The children were introduced to gel sticks and were excited to discover that they could draw like crayons, but be rubbed around like pastels, but also turned to paint when added to water and spread with a paint brush. They carefully mixed colors to find their skin and eye colors. They also added "emotional representations," using colors and shapes that they found evocative of their specific emotion!

Click here to see our Self Portrait Gallery

Making Faces: Creativity, identifying feelings

Matching Feelings:

Emotional Morning Meetings!

We challenged ourselves to do all of our morning meeting jobs while feeling different feelings. One day we were all sad, another day we were mad, yet another we acted scared. The children decided that mad was their favorite!

100th Day of School Celebration

Getting outside!

A snowy day and emerging spring!

Letter practice!

In addition to singing the abc's every day, and noticing the letters of our names, we also have been practicing writing letters as we sound out all of our labels! We have now introduced the short "o" sound! With this we have started using hand motions to help us discern the subtle differences in short vowel sounds. "a" is a hand flat, palm down right under your chin. This draws attention to the jaw drop that occurs when making that sound. "i" is simply pointing to your nose. For short "o" we draw a circle with our finger around our mouths to show the shape they make when we say short "o."

Short "a" and "short i" sort: Letter recognition, cooperation, phonemic awareness

The children were given word pairs which varied only by middle vowel sounds, in teams of two, they worked to sort out the words by their middle sounds.