- Kitchen Dance (book)
- pictures of different emotions (faces)
- dance
- emotion
- expression
- music
MA Standards:
Social Emotional/Mental Health SEL.PK.5.1 Identify the various feelings that most people experience and describe the physical and emotional reactions of the body to intense positive and negative feelings.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Social Relationships Recognizes and labels others’ emotions.
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation Recognizes and labels emotions.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Health Education 16 Recognize and describe or represent emotions such as happiness, surprise, anger, fear, sadness.
Play Together: Say It with Dance
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ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Creative Expression
Talk about feelings and how sometimes you can tell what someone is feeling by looking at his or her face. Put on a sad face and ask,
Can you tell how I am feeling when you look at the expression on my face? Tell children that you are going to show them pictures of people with different expressions on their faces. Say, Look at the face and see if you can tell what emotion, or feeling, the person was having when the picture was taken.
- Show a happy face. Ask, What kind of face is this? What emotion is the face showing? Allow children to describe what emotion is shown. Then say, What kind of music might make you feel this way?
- Encourage children to dance to show the emotion. Say, This is a happy face. How do you move when feel happy?
- Help children make connections to the book Kitchen Dance. Ask, What face shows how the family was feeling in the book Kitchen Dance? How were they moving to show they were happy?
- Continue with other emotions.