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