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Activity of the Week June 15

Today's 2-minute activity

If you only have 2 minutes to spare, please consider trying the following:

In the morning start with "Tell me something good". Tell your child something good you are looking forward to during that day. For example, "I'm happy because today we are going to go for a walk outside." Ask your child what they are looking forward to.

At the end of the day, have a talk time with your child where they express an emotion they had during the day. Give them a prompted sentence to work with such as "Today, I felt ________ when ________ happened." For example, "Today, I felt excited when we got to go to the park."

Last week we learned the word glad. Glad is a happy feeling.

She is feeling glad.

Today our new word is sad. Start by making the word glad again. Now, take away the first two letters g and l. Put the letter s at the beginning. You made the word sad. Did you know that glad and sad are rhyming words?

He is feeling sad.

Story Time

Today, we will watch the story, Saturday, by Oge Mora.

Ava and her mother have to overcome lots of obstacles during this particular Saturday together. As you watch the story with your child, please complete the following:

Think and talk about the emotions that Ava & her mother felt (excited, happy, sad, disappointed, let-down, loving)
Talk about why they were having those feelings. For example, they felt excited because they were going to the puppet show.
What did Ava & her mother do to calm down when upset? (stopped, closed eyes, took deep breath)
Can you try to pretend to be Ava and use those strategies right now? (stop, close your eyes, take a deep breath)
What is something that makes you feel sad or upset?
What can you do to calm down when you're upset?

Song/Movement Time

Sing the classic " If You're Happy and You Know it" with your child at home.

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands

If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it (smile!)

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

Now replace happy with different emotions:

Mad/Angry – cross your arms.

Frustrated – stomp your feet.

Excited – jump up and down.

Sad – make a frown

Scared – hide your face.

It's important to learn that we express emotions with our face, our words and our body gestures. Talk about your child's facial expressions with them for each of the emotions. For example, for mad, their mouth might frown, their eyebrows might go down in the middle.

Here is a version of the song, in case you don't know the tune.

Feelings Exploration

with Loose Parts

If you have any craft material or loose parts (buttons, elastic bands, ribbon scraps, construction paper scraps, rice, beans, popcorn, etc) have your child make different feeling faces. The great thing about loose parts and art is that there is no wrong way to do this.

Take a picture of a face your child creates with the loose parts. Record your child's voice telling us how they made the face (buttons for eyes, rice for mouth, etc). Also, ask your child how that face is feeling (scared, happy, frustrated, excited, surprised, etc).

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