EMOTIONS

FEELING BOARD Submitted by Cara I use this activity during morning meeting time in my Structured Teaching self-contained classroom (autism) Using real-life photos or pictures of children expressing various emotions, I velcro them to a thick poster board (4-8 pics. depending on your student's levels and abilities)...this way I can move the pictures around or change them. Each of the kids take turns affixing their picture next to the emotion they're feeling at that time. My kids re-visit the emotions board during the day to change where their picture are located depending on how they are feeling. Laminate everything for durability! Sing a Song of Feelings Help your youngsters learn to identify and express their feelings with this song. Invite students to use their voices, as well as body language, to dramatize the suggested feeling in the song. Then repeat the song, substituting a different feeling each time. In no time at all, your little ones will be singing about feelings...whoa, whoa, whoa! I Have Feelings (sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques") I have feelings; I have feelings. Look at me, and you'll see. Sometimes I feel [mad]; Really, really [mad]. Look at me, and you'll see. FORGIVENESS Submitted by Hillary Prepare small pieces of paper and write on each piece a statement: Someone took what you were playing with and won't share it. Someone won't let you play a game. Someone broke something of yours. Someone calls you names. Someone hits you. ect... Put the papers in a box labeled "Forgiveness Box". Show the box and ask a child up one at a time to take a piece of paper out of it. Read the statement and ask questions such as: Has this ever happend to you? How would you feel? ect... Explain that by forgiving someone this means that they shouldn't be angry at each other anymore and they should be friends.

EMOTIONS Submitted by Peg Title: Paper Plate Faces Make several paper plate faces reflecting emotions. Paste two opposite faces back to back - ex. Paste plate with happy face on back of plate with sad face. Glue popsicle stick between the 2 plates. Have children hold mask and pantomime expression and tell what makes them feel that way. Now switch to other side of mask and do the same. Guess My Feelings Game can be played several ways. 1). Teacher calls out emotion and class pantomime it with facial expression. 2). Child pantomimes emotion and class must guess feeling. 3). Teacher gives examples of situations and children pantomime how they would feel. Ex.: teacher says "You are going to the amusement park". (children should smile and be excited). "You are home and can't find your Mom" (children should show concern and fear). "Oh look Mom was just in the bathroom" (children show relief; smile) "You are meeting lots of new grown ups" (children pantomime shyness). FEELINGS Submitted by Brownwyn Feelings guage....glue 4 (2 on top & 2 on bottom...I use happy,sad,angry,scared) faces of various emotions onto a card. Using a split pin, put a pointer arrow in the centre. Each day the children come to school..and at any time they like, they move the pointer to indicate how they feel. This is a good way to find out how the child is feeling ..especially if they are reluctant talkers. The other children also get to read these as they are displayed iin the room and I find they go and ask a peer why they are sad etc. The teachers also have one. I teach 5year olds in Perth Australia. Thank you for your cite

SENSES
5 SENSES BOOK As a culmination to your five senses unit, have the children make self portraits; then glue on wiggle eyes, cotton ball dipped in perfume (nose), jingle bells (ears), sand paper (hands) and licorice (mouth). Use this caption: "_____________ has Five Senses". SMELL Submitted by Tami I buy ordinary/inexpensive bubbles and add a drop or two of pepperment extract to the bubbles. The children love the smell and it stimulates their olfactory senses as well as their fine motor control because they try to catch them and their tracking skills as they watch them float. HEARING Submitted by Diane Just a quickie to be added to the senses curriculum: Wind up a music box and have one child hide it while another hides his/her eyes. Then child must use his/her hearing to locate the sound.

A book I use when doing my unit on smelling is A Tale of Two Tengu. It's very funny especially when just told as a story. THE 5 SENSES - SIGHT Submitted by Becky Cut out the insides of paper plates, leaving the rims intact (2 plates per finished product). Glue or tape colored cellophane covering the opening of one plate and tape or glue another plate to secure cellophane. Can add a popscicle stick for a handle. Use yellow, green and red cellophane. Children can hold up and view the world in different colors and can hold up two plates to make orange, green or purple. If room lighting is not very good, can do outside or have a flashlight or other light source nearby. Can also cover toliet paper rolls on one end to make color telescopes. LIGHTS OUT I use three pairs of dark socks and one pair of white. I put all of the socks in a shoe box. Lights go out and the students must match the socks. This shows how eyes react to color in the dark. MY EYES Here are my eyes, One and two. I give a wink. So can you. When they're open, I can see light. When they're closed, It's dark like night. HAND SHAPED FEELY BOARD Need: posterboard and scraps of fabric (different textures of fabric), cotton balls, glue, scissors. Trace a childs' hand on posterboard and cut out the hand shape. Have the children glue different textures of fabric and cottonballs onto their posterboard hand. Sweet Smelling Art: for a special sensory experience, add a few drops of peppermint, lemon or vanilla to your play dough. Add a few drops of peppermint to your paint. If you have little ones, you might prefer to paint with jell or pudding so if they eat their "paint," no one will become ill. Have children draw pictures with scented markers or scented crayons. Encourage them to exchange pictures and compare scents. encourage children to discuss the "smells" of their markers or crayons..... TEXTURED GLOVES Fill separate disposable rubber gloves with textured materials such as gelatin, rice, beans, or cotton. Tightly tie the opening of each glove with a length of yarn. (Keep the gelatin-filled gloves chilled until you are

ready to use them.) Place the filled gloves in a learning center. To use the center, invite a student to feel, poke, and manipulate the gloves. Encourage him to describe the texture and movement of each glove as he explores it. THE MYSTERY CAN Submitted by Maureen (This is the notice inside the can (laminated) that is sent home with a different child each day. Dear Parents/Caregivers: This is our class mystery can. The object is for the children to try and guess what is inside. Your child has been selected to take it home tonight. Please help them to select something that makes a sound when the can is shaken, (I've attached a paper with some ideas and a list of items that others have sent in, it's ok to send them again). The rest of us will try to guess what is inside. Please help your child with clues to give the rest of us. Please return the can tomorrow. The object of this activity is to stimulate their curiosity, encourage the use of sensory skills and offer the children the opportunity to ask many questions. Happy hunting for your Mystery can item. Thanks, Song Title: Mystery Can Sung to, "I'm a Little Teapot." What's in the Mystery can Who can tell? Maybe it's a book, or maybe a shell What's in the Mystery can Who can see? It's something special for you and me. Items to put in the Mystery can: Acorns Beans Chocolate Chips Marbles Marshmallows Nails Paper clips Peanuts Pennies (1-5 coins should be enough) Rice Rocks Screws Thumbtacks

Clues: Item: Peanuts 1) Elephants like to eat them. 2) They make a good sandwich. Marshmallows 1) They melt if you put them in hot chocolate. 2) They can be sticky. SENSES Submitted by Stacy have the kids draw or paint blindfolded. It makes for an interesting picture and a totally different experience. Also play different types of music from classical to hard rock and have the kids draw what they hear. Play a relaxation tape of water or waves or the forest and also have them draw what they hear. FUN SENSES ACTIVITIES Submitted by Cheryl Smell: Tell a story about Nosy Bear, a Bear who loves to smell. He smells flowers, he smells pizza, he smells perfume, etc. Use a bear puppet if available, and embellish the story. Ask the children to bring in something good for Nosy Bear to smell. They might bring a plastic jar containing something with a smell, a medicine bottle with cotton ball soaked in the "smell", a plastic ziplock bag with (example) dusting powder, whatever. Then have the children guess what Nosy Bear is smelling and have them smell too and vote for their favorite smells. You could write a group story describing the different smells. This would emphasize ordering as well. First, Nosy Bear smelled ________. Etc. He really liked ___________. But he DIDN'T like to smell ____________. ______________was his favorite smell! Sight: BROWN BEAR PUPPETS As a follow up activity to "Brown Bear" story make bear puppets from paper lunch bags & brown construction paper ears. The children draw on the faces. To extend the experience to home, send home a note telling the parents that we read Brown Bear and are looking for different things to see. The children can use their puppets to "look". Ask the parents to send in a note telling one thing that their child and "Brown Bear" "SAW" together. Touch: Use oatmeal boxes to make 3 or 4 feelie boxes - cover them with contact paper. Cut the ribbing off of an old sock & attach it to the opening of each box using glue & then a couple of tight wraps of fat cloth tape. Put three or four things inside each box for the children to discover with different feels such as a wood ABC block, a rubber ball , a large cork, a plastic pop bead, a powder puff, a plastic pot scrubber, a short metal toddler spoon, etc. Describe what the child is feeling: hard, soft, warm, cool, rough, smooth, etc. Taste Comparative Taste-- Have the children compare the taste of different varieties of the same foods such as red and green seedless grapes, Golden Delicious and Granny Smith apples, and cheddar and mozzarella cheeses. Sound:

Use a Karaoke machine for a sound game. Have one child hide behind a divider or curtain and then talk into the microphone. The other kids in the circle have to guess who it is by listening to the voice. For a sound discrimination set: Submitted by Lafnlearn Save your scotch tape boxes, the little ones that are about 2X2 inches. Fill 2 boxes with 2 teaspoons rice, fill 2 boxes with 2 teaspoons sand or salt, continue making pairs with other ingredients such as beans, pebbles, jingle bells, cheerios, etc... don't forget to make an empty pair! Cover the boxes with contact paper, make sure they all look alike. Let the kids figure out which sounds match. Your local elementary schools use lots of tape so put a cardboard box where the tape is kept and ask them to drop their tape boxes there... you'll have a huge set in no time! SENSES Submitted by Marilyn Activities For sight..I will try this year (recommended by a former professor) a game where I will cut out large common shapes from oaktag (such as a dog, elephant, butterfly, etc and decorate one side of the cutout. Show the blank side to the children and explain that they must use their eyes to determine what the shape is. Then turn the cutout around so that they see they are right. We will also go on a nature walk and write an experience chart about what we saw on our walk. SENSES Submitted by Tammy Sight - We will talk about how important sight is. We always talk about things we like to see (pretty things to us). Then I take a blindfold and have the children build a building with our large blocks without using their sense of sight. The kids love this and they get a little taste at how hard it can be to do things without looking. Sound - I have a sound game I use. I have a tape and bingo cards of everyday sounds (Baby crying, telephone ringing, car, lawnmower...etc.) The children have fun trying to identify what the sounds are they are hearing. The game is played like bingo. Feel - This one I got from a fellow looper. We are going to use an "elephant feely box". I am going to use margarine containers and socks. Cut the toe out of the sock and fit the margarine container into it. I am going to place one object in each and have the kids guess what is in there. Then the kids are going to get a chance to put objects in there too. Title: Smelly Plates Submitted by Dee deesmith@idsmail Provide each student with a small paper plate and smelly stickers (grapes, strawberries, candy canes,etc.) Allow students to peel the different smelly stickers and place onto their plate. Have them sniff the stickers and identify it's smell. Title: Naming Part and Senses Submitted by Kimberly

If a bird you want to hear You have to listen with your ______________ If you want to dig in the sand Hold the shovel in your __________ To see an airplane as it flies YOU must open up your __________ To smell a violet or a rose You sniff the fragrance thru your ____________ When you walk across the street You use two thing you call your ____________ East and West and North and South To eat or talk you use your __________ Title: Texture Shapes Submitted by Suzanne For each child, cut a large shape out of heavy paper or from cardboard. Prepare a variety of collage materials for the children to use...dyed pasta or rice, fabric, ribbon, paper scraps, & cellophane are some ideas. You can use just one color or several colors. (Use the 3 primary colors for example, or red , yellow, and orange if you are trying to teach red + yellow = orange) Let children cover shapes with glue, then use the materials to make a collage. When the glue has dried, have the children gently rub their hands across the shapes to feel the different textures. To dye pasta or rice: Place a small amount of rubbing alcohol in a jar that has a screw-top lid (a mayonnaise jar is good). Add a few drops of food coloring. Fill the jar about 2/3 full with uncooked rice or pasta. Replace the lid, & shake until color is evenly distributed. Allow pasta or rice ot dry for about 1 hour. Title: Training of Ears, Smell and Taste Submitted by Marilyn Materials: Lots of empty film roll different ingredients for filling Fill each roll with either a different product, like rice or beans, the children will hear the different sounds of it. You can make another roll with exactly the same filling. You can play film roll Lotto. The children have to find the same filling, just by shaking the roll(don't let them open it until the end, and you see if every child found the two matching rolls). Or you can make the same filling, but different amounts, like, one roll of rice filled up, the other one half way and the third one just a few rice corns.. The children learn to recognize the difference... We did it in Germany, and the children just loved it. You can use those photorolls for so many things... You also, can fill it with some spices, and let the children smell it or taste it, like sweet paprika powder, and stuff like that, lemon.........and so on.... Title: Sense - smell Submitted by Ruby One gets both green and red salsa. The kids compare the two, which has a stronger smell, which

is spicier, which is sweeter,how are they different (color,thickness) etc. Then as a whole group, one can discuss the difference. One can make a class graph on which one everyone liked more. then they can enjoy the rest of their chips with the salsa. This is great to use descriptive words and work on their senses. My students fully enjoyed this experiment and realize that there is a difference between red and green salsa.