School!

The sitter's kid starts school this week & B is bummed. He wants to go to school so badly, so I promised him, we would start doing "school" at home (in all my abundant spare time).


We're going to start with a unit on emotions.


Today's activity:

We printed out the emotions sorting game here and I cut out all of the faces. I gave B one of the large faces and asked him how the person felt. I wrote his answer on the top of the paper & let him paste the large face on the paper. Then he found and pasted the three matching small faces on the same page. We repeated until we did all four. Then I let him color and decorate.

Some activities that I think might be on the docket (We'll be using 1 + 1 + 1 = 1's Tot Book on some of these.):

• An emotions memory game
  
• "Color My Emotion"
  
• Reading books about emotions
• A "Today I Feel..." station on the refrigerator
  
• "How are we feeling game?" -- Where I explain scenarios & B finds the face that matches what the child would be feeling
  
• An emotions matching page (I'll have to help him with this) where B draws a line to match the word and the face
  
• Singing "If you're happy and you know it..." with verses for mad, sad, tired, etc.
  
• Playing "Mommy says..." with "act happy, sad, mad, etc."
  
• We may use the clown craft here and talk about turning the smile upside down to make a sad face.
  
• If I'm really adventurous, we'll make some different eyes and mouths & have B have create faces -- He has to find the angry eyes & match with an angry mouth to make and angry face on a paper plate -- We'll see how this goes.
• Playing Emotions Bingo (or some sort of Emotions Board Game)

• A Gross Motor Skills Game where we draw faces with sidewalk chalk & B has to run or jump or hop to the appropriate face.