Identifying Feelings

This morning started out like any other. Everyone came in, wrote their names, and then began to play at the various invitations around the room. About half of the friends settled around a train set and began building an elaborate train track that snaked across the carpet. Everyone was playing side by side, commenting on the different tracks they were building, creating a dialogue between the trains, and even trying to figure out how to make the track connect. But then something happened between the small group. 

C stood up, brow furrowed, and walked over to our feelings chart. He independently chose his name from the list and looked at each of the different faces expressing different emotions. 

This then sparked something in the others. Just then, all of the other kids began choosing their names and moving their names to the feeling face in which they were feeling. 

Because we have been working on identifying our feelings the last two weeks, this is was huge! The kids are beginning to talk more about all of the kinds of feelings they can have and what makes them feel that way. E said it best today. 

"You can't always be happy because you have a lot of feelings inside!"

We couldn't agree more 😊