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Children will identify and analyze different emotions.

Social and Life Skills Focus: selfawareness

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

Paired Text: El libro de los sentimientos by Todd Parr

  • In this imaginative, bilingual, and vibrant picture book, Todd Parr introduce readers to all the changing emotions we all feel.

Circle Time Activity: Pantomimas de sentimientos

  • On small slips of paper, write feelings words. You can also draw faces. Put the slips in a paper bag.
  • Pass the bag around the circle, letting each child pick a feeling at random. Have them make a face that shows the feeling they picked as the rest of the group tries to guess it.

Scavenger Hunt: siente

  • The word siente is on each page of the mini book. Together, find and circle it each time it appears

Hands-on Activity: Juego de dados de los sentimientos

Skill: vocabulary, oral language

Materials: Plantilla del cubo de los sentimientos sheet, crayons, scissors, tape

  • Print out as many templates as you need to make the number of cubes you want. You can have children color the emoji faces before you assemble the cubes. Then follow the instructions on the skill sheet to assemble.
  • You can introduce the game at circle time. Toss the cube and show children which side landed face up. Then finish the sentence. For example, Me siento feliz cuando los veo por la mañana.
  • Go around the circle, letting children take turns rolling and finishing the sentence.
  • If you’d like, let kids play in small groups, or leave a cube out for center time.