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In The Kid Connection elementary school students learn social emotional skills that support their meaningful participation in the classroom, on the playground, and in their lives outside of school. During the school dismissal period Miss Kitty, our Kid Connection Specialist, will be offering a series of brief, 5-minute videos for our students to learn and practice social emotional skills at home.
Being Aware of Your Emotions
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Being able to identify and label one’s emotions is an important part of developing self-awareness. To help your child practice and learn to identify and label his/her emotions:
- Talk with your child about how people on television, in books, and in magazines may be feeling, based on their facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice. For example, if someone is happy, their mouth may be turned up and they may be smiling, their eyes may be bright. If someone is angry they may have a furrowed brow, their eyes and lips may appear tense, their voice may be deep or loud.
- In front of a mirror, practice expressing various emotions with your child.
- Talk with your child about your facial expressions and body language and how you’re feeling.
- Talk with your child about his/her facial expression, tone of voice, and body language and help him/her to label the feeling.
- Print or download a Feelings Chart from the internet. At various times during the week, review the chart with your child and help your child to label how he/she is feeling. Have your child say, draw, or write how he/she is feeling, “I feel _____.”