The Way I Feel

Activity Name: The Way I Feel
Age Group: 3 to 5 years old
Number of Children: 10
Length of Time:15 to 20 minutes

Area of Development: Emotional and cognitive skills.

Goal of the Activity: Promoting emotional and cognitive development.
Objective of the Activity: the children will be able to identify, imitate, understand and express feelings of happy, angry, sad, sleepy, scared and surprised

Materials Required: Chart that contains different faces of emotions.

Introduction: Ask the children how are they feels today.

My Role: 

• Facilitator and will participate during imitating of the emotion through action song, "If You're Happy".

Detailed Progression of the Activity:

• Ask the children how they feel when they first woke up this morning and when their mother and or father dropped them off the daycare.
• recognize the children's feelings and let them know that it is important how they feel and to accept the different ways we feel. It is good for others to know how we feel and for us particularly the children how to express the feelings safely and in acceptable manners.
• Show the chart of different faces of emotions to the children and let them identify the emotions.
• Sing and action song, "If You're Happy"

Transition: 

• If You're Happy and You Know It

Extension: Use the same procedure in a small group time later in the day, ask the children about their feelings.

Example:

• You need to go to clean up the centers. Are you happy or sad? and Why?
• You find your favorite toy that you thought was lost, are you happy or sad

Sequencing: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Activity Name: Sequencing Activity Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Age Group: 3 to 5 years old
Number of Children: 10
Length of Time: 15 to 20 minutes

Goal of the Activity: reinforcing memory skills and sequencing.
Objective of the Activity: The children will be able to know the sequence of the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and make their own version of the story.

Materials Required:

• Goldilocks and the three Bears books
• Picture cards of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with sticky tac or velcro

Introduction:

Ask the children if they know or hear the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

My Role:

• Facilitator
• Ask open-ended question

Detailed Progression of the Activity:

1. Let the children sit on a semi-circle and give a hint for today's topic.
2. Read the book to the children about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
3. Ask the children for an open-ended question in between readings.
4. Let the children guess what will going to happen to Goldilocks, this is to enhance their imagination and creative learning.
5. Let the children retell the story (1 minute story) by sequencing game.

Transitions: Acka Backa, or any other transitions

Extensions: 

1. Pretend play: the scene should be the same as the story
2. Matching game
3. Memory game
4. Coloring
5. Tracing activity