SING WITH EMOTION!A social emotional music activity!

WHY TEACH THIS LESSON?

According to Developmental Profiles, four year old children should recite and sing simple songs and rhymes. (p. 142)

This activity will give the children an opportunity to identify emotions through song.

WHAT WILL THEY LEARN?

The children will be able to identify characteristics of emotions.

They will recognize and identify own emotions and the emotions of others.

WHAT TO DO!

After we’ve done the fingerplay, I’ll tell the children, “That fingerplay talks about feelings. Today we are going to sing songs about feelings.”

First, we’ll sing a song you all know, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”

We will sing the song.

I will ask the children, “We don’t always feel happy though, do we? What are some other feelings we have?”

I will choose sad or nervous and say, “What if we change our song to ‘If You’re Sad and You Know it?’”

I will ask the children what we might do when we’re sad.

We will sing the new song with our new actions supplied by the children