All About Feelings

We have begun a unit on feelings and emotions in the Tel Aviv All Star class.
Although we have been helping the children to identify feelings in themselves and others since the beginning of the year, we are now delving more deeply in to this subject area. We have many wonderful books to read to the children, beautiful photographs of children displaying different facial expressions and body postures, along with related games and exercises. Our exploration of feelings follows smoothly from our focus on problem solving and conflict resolution which we have been working on since the beginning of the year. In the collage to the right, Hadley is drawing her "angry" picture which shows her brother eating some of her alphabet soup. Isaiah said of his picture: "I'm happy, and I'm moving my foot up and down. I'm happy because I'm almost getting a piece of candy." Nathaniel worked for a long time on his"angry" picture which was very colorful and covered the entire page. We plan to revisit these pictures again as we continue our exploration of feelings and emotions over the weeks to come. Each child is working on his/her own feelings book to take home.