Additional Classroom Connections This storytime can be expanded to continue children’s exploration of feelings.
Social & Emotional Musical Feelings Music can be a powerful and fun way to help young children recognize different moods and feelings. Play a range of music. (Your Kid’s African Part y CD would be perfect.) Invite children to dance or move to the music. Talk about how the music inspires them to move. Ask them what feelings they associate with the music and movements. Then ask how they would move if they felt happy, proud, sad, shy, angry, or calm. Classroom Interactions Model Robust Language Make the most of the many language-building opportunities presented each day by modeling language use and encouraging robust language experiences. • Ask questions that require more than a one- or two-word response. Make sure all children have the opportunity to respond. • Use repetition to clarify children’s talk. Guide them through questions that encourage elaboration. • Use language throughout the day as a model. Clearly explain what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how you will do it.
Music & Movement Show It! Invite children to sing and act out a favorite song about feelings. Make up additional verses with other feelings. For example: If you’re angry and you know it, stomp your feet, or If you’re proud and you know it, thump your chest. If You’re Happy and You Know It 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 you really want to show it. If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
Language & Literacy
Print Awareness: How Books Work Print awareness is a child’s earliest understanding that written words carry meaning. This is a foundational understanding for children. Explain to children how books are organized. Show them the book Yo! Yes? and invite individual children to hold the book. Call attention to the differences between the front and back covers and the interior pages of the book. Explain that the covers are sturdier or stronger than the inside pages because they have to protect all the pages and keep them together. Talk about what children notice on the cover. Point out the title, author’s name, and characters. Track the print as you read and point out that, in English, we read from left to right and from top to bottom, and we turn pages from front to back.
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