I added a number of mirrors to the studio environment in an effort to support the children's emerging interests in self portraits and emotional awareness. In response the children continued to explore feelings and emotions with a variety of media and tools.
They also enjoyed looking at each other and their reflections as they experimented with recognizing various emotions and attending to how each one feels inside.
A few children realized that they could actually make themselves FEEL an emotion by thinking about something: the time a brother pulled his hair and voila anger....the time mom left on a trip and there is sadness...getting an unexpected gift equals surprise and joy...
WOW thinking a thought is related to feeling an emotion...that's some fairly adroit emotional awareness!
We will meet next week as a whole staff to brainstorm ideas about this emerging project and where to go from here. If you have ideas, please chime in!
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