Week of 1/28

Hello Sky Room Families!

The Sky Room has been feeling ALL the feels this week as we have been learning all about FEELINGS! We have explored our own feelings by talking about what makes us feel happy, sad, angry, nice, and silly (just to name a few!). Here are some of fun activities that we’ve been enjoying!

Classroom Activities:

• After introducing the concept of what feelings are, we showed the students photos of children looking happy, sad, angry, and silly. After making the facial expression that corresponded with each feeling, the children picked one feeling to depict for their self portrait. Needless to say, we had some very dramatic poses/looks, which are now featured outside on our “Feelings” bulletin board! 
• We sat on the rug to check out our “feelings portraits” and created a story based around what the students observed from each photo. The students helped to create this story by looking at each portrait, and stating “she looks happy!” or “he looks silly!”. We then prompted and scaffolded the conversation to allow for the students to come up with reasons as to why they were feeling that particular way. Our impromptu “Sky Room Story” turned out to be quite the emotional roller coaster. :) 
• We assembled and cooked our very own “Emotional Pizza Faces” using English muffins, mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce, thinly sliced cherry tomatoes, and sliced peppers. The students were instructed to first add the sauce, then the cheese, and then were given the liberty to add on their own "emotion" to the pizza using the rest of their ingredients. They had a great time making (but mostly eating) their pizza faces.

Songs We Sang:

• “Winter Weather"
• “Feelings!"
• “The Story of My Feelings”, by Laurie Berkner

Books We Read:

• “Gus Gets Mad”, by Frank Remkiewicz
• “The Happy Bee”, by Ian Beck
• “I Was So Mad”, by Mercer Mayer

Have a wonderful weekend!

Laura, Desiree and Ashley