- The book that I read to the children was “Lots of Feelings?” A Book About Emotions” by Shelly Rodner. I chose this book because I want children to understand each other feelings and understand how each other is feeling. This book shows anti-bias by showcasing pictures of actual children that are representing the emotions and feelings that people have during certain situation. The book also has many different types of children representing different types of culture around the world. Look at pictures to figure out which people are showing happiness, anger, and other emotions. Lots of feelings are pictured in this book that is a great way to teach little learners on how to read faces and the emotions they express.
2. I chose this book because I notice that in my classroom the children are hurting each other feelings and have not been showing empathy to one another and even they don’t know how to apologize to please others. I have seen many times when a child’s feelings get hurt, but the other child does not seem to care about how the other person was feeling. I wanted to show children that people do have feeling too and we should work together to solve the conflict with our words.
3. Prior to my reading preparation, We have many Dual Language Learners in our classroom and it is good to see many languages in read aloud. There are many children who need more support in emotions and connect them to what we read and explain to them. This book connects to what is happening in the classroom. I have many children who never been in school before so they don’t know how to show their feelings or solve problems with others.
4. I prepare different feelings pictures in different languages. strategies that I use was asking questions, having the children interacting with the book and covering up some of the words so they could read the pictures then revealing the words afterwards. When asking questions, I wanted the children to tell me which child was feeling what. I also wanted the children to teach me Spanish too, so I ask them to tell me how to say, “Happy” in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese.. or how to say, “Sad” in Spanish, Chines, Vietnamese… When interacting with the book I wanted the children to show me their faces of the emotions shown in the book. I wanted the children to recognize each other faces when they are feeling something. Lastly I wanted the children to learn the words in English as well, so by covering up the word, then revealing it to them, I was able to create kind of a “guess the emotion game” base on the picture, then the word would be revealed. I also created a game called “Feeling matching game”, we had such a great time to play this game.
5. I learn that when reading to the children they will become more engage in the story and need to have 10-15 minutes for read a loud. When I ask them questions about the book and have pictures that show what I ask, get them thinking. When I was telling the children to make the faces of how one’s is feeling, they enjoyed interacting with the book. If Dual language learners who are confused and don’t know the word to answer, they would point to the picture they think.
We also use a curriculum called ” Second Step”. After reading, we stand up and sing a song called ” If you happy/sad/angry/scary/mad/surprised and you know”, The children love to follow what the song says and show facial expressions.
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