Emotions

 Hello Banana's Families,

We have had a fun week learning  about our emotions and ways to control our emotions when we have big and small feelings. We also learned about big and small problems in the classroom and ways we can resolve social conflicts with our peers. 

We want to thank all of our families that came to our Cookies and Milk open house this morning. We had a blast and missed all of our families that could not be with us!

Take a look at all we have been up to this week!


In the art center we used collage materials to create different feeling faces! We also created collages using magazines and newspapers to show various things that make us feel happy. We discovered that the pool makes many of our friends feel happy!


In the dramatic play center, we explored play with puppets! The friends enjoyed putting on many puppet shows for their friends and teachers in the classroom!


In the literacy center, we used letters and emotions cards to spell various emotion words!





We had a lot of fun engaging in a emotion memory game in the table toys center this week! The friends identified and match various emotions to see who would get the most matches and become the winner! We also worked on being happy for our friends when they would win the game!


We had our first music class this week! The friends loved meeting Mrs. Shelly and getting to play her musical instruments!

 




We hope everyone has a great weekend!

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