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Feeling Faces
Read a book such as How are you Peeling? by Joost Effers to begin a discussion
about feelings.
Use paper plates to make sets of faces showing different feelings. Make some
with a big smile and some with a frown and tears. Give each child a set of plates.
Using a puppet, tell a few situations and have the children choose a paper plate to
show how they think the puppet feels. Here are a few examples:
• Porky Puppet’s Grandma came to visit and they made cookies together
• Porky Puppet’s kitty ran outside and is lost
• Porky Puppet found the lost kitty
• Porky Puppet’s sister broke his favorite toy car
• Porky Puppet’s mommy came to school to read a story to the whole class
See if the children can share a situation that happened to them and show how
they felt using a paper plate face.
First Friends
Read a book about friendship such as Together by George Ella Lyon or Margaret
and Margarita by Lynn Reiser.
Invite the children to choose a friend to work on a project together.
Give each pair of children one full sheet of art paper, some construction paper
and fabric scraps, pieces of tissue paper, and two glue sticks.
Encourage the children to make a collage together.
Write both children’s names on the collage and display it for all to see.
We Can Work It Out
Cultural and Language Tip
The book Together features two friends of different races.
The book Margaret and Margarita features two friends with
different home languages. Both books reflect positive images
of friends from different cultures.
In your classroom, set up two small chairs facing each other.
When children disagree about something, lead them over to the chairs.
With the children sitting face to face, help each one use words to tell about
the problem.
Calmly help them find a solution. Usually, with three year olds, the “conversation”
will be brief and the solution will be something simple such as “take
turns” or “share.”
Encourage the children to shake hands when they reach an agreement.
This is a way to begin teaching conflict resolution.