Educational activities to understand and manage emotions in children through storytelling and art
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[...] (10min) - Presentation of the box: A collectively decorated box will serve toto welcome the angers of children, in the form of drawings or small writings (dictated to the adult or words alone). (5min) - Activity: ? Each child chooses a situation that made them angry ? We can conclude with a ritual phrase to mark the symbolic deposit: 'My anger is in the box, I leave it here so it no longer bothers me' (10min) - « How did you feel while doing your drawing? [...]
[...] Organization: - « what does this book talk about, anyway? (10min) - Discussion on anger: 'how you imagine anger' (10min) - Children draw 'big anger' according to their imagination. (10min) - Presentation in front of the class of drawings (10min) Display of productions in the anger gallery (posters). Discovery of illustrations Objectives: Confronting one's personal representations with those of the illustrator Skills: - Developing observation - Justifying a point of view Organization: - Reading the album with illustrations: 'did you imagine it like that?' (10min) - Collective comparison: students compare their anger with that of the book (10min) - Discussion around anger: 'how can you calm your anger?' (10min) Reorder the story Objective: Understand the chronology of the story. [...]
[...] - Develop the imagination through listening. - Start to identify emotions and causes. - Announcement of the session: am going to read you a story, but you will not see the images. You will imagine it in your head, like a little secret film that you make in your imagination.' - Reading of the book by the teacher without showing the images - Discussion around the book: 'what is the character's name?'? (10min) - Language: the children close their eyes and describe with their words what they saw 'in their head' during the story. [...]
[...] Great Anger - Mireille d'Allancé (2000) - Exploitation of an album - Preparation sheet for sequence cycle 1 for Middle section The Emotions Period September - Naming Anger - Understanding that anger is an emotion - Reflecting on the causes and consequences of anger - Developing collectively strategies to manage anger successes: - Understanding the story and being able to rephrase it with one's own words - Naming the characters and describing their emotions - Justify the order of the images in the story - Recognize the emotion of anger and know how to verbalize a way to calm down other learning domains: - Mobilize language: ? Understand a story heard and retell the main steps ? Tell a story ? Enrich the vocabulary ? Identify characters, locations in a narrative ? Listen to a story from start to finish without interruption Evaluation: - Oral comprehension and reformulation. - Graphic and artistic activities Discovery of the album Objectives: Understand the emotion / mentally represent a story heard Transversal: Listen to a story, identify the character Skills: - Understand a story read without visual support. [...]
