{"id":5779,"date":"2021-04-26T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2021-04-26T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:59:22","slug":"working-on-emotional-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2021\/04\/26\/working-on-emotional-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on Emotional Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lisa Smith, one of our Support for Learning Assistants, has been exploring emotions with the children in the Rainbow playroom.\u00a0 It has been extremely worthwhile in increasing the children’s awareness of reading body language and anticipating how someone might be feeling, to build empathy with others.\u00a0 We have seen lots of different types of faces as we have role played, drawn and modelled how different emotions look.\u00a0 It has been lots of fun and made us think carefully about how we feel at different times.\u00a0 Here are some of Lisa’s posts with some great comments from the children:<\/p>\n

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Today we drew different facial features on paper, and used these to make various expressions and feeling faces. This helps the children to think about how they may be feeling at certain times, and encourages them to identify many different emotions they may experience. The children enjoyed making lots of silly faces with this activity, and lots of fun was had chatting about when we might have a very silly face. For some of the children I\u00a0asked them to make a face\u00a0correlating to a\u00a0particular feeling, and then look in the mirror at their own face to see the sort of shapes their features were in.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Iona ‘\u00a0I am sad when I get in trouble’<\/em><\/div>\n
Emma ‘ I am happy when I am at nursery and I can play with Zara’<\/em><\/div>\n
Arabella ‘ If my big cousin Ellie was coming for a sleepover I would be surprised’<\/em><\/div>\n
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Using homemade playdough we were exploring feelings and facial expressions today. We made a variety of facial expressions together using the playdough, and then chatted about times where we might have feelings of happiness, excitement, sadness, worry and surprise. We also started to explore the sensations we may have in our bodies when we have those emotions.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Many of the\u00a0children had a good understanding of situations where they may feel differing emotions.<\/em><\/div>\n
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‘I would have a surprised face if I got a present not for my birthday’\u00a0 – Sophie<\/em><\/div>\n
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I would have a worried face if my baby crosses the road by itself’ – Callum<\/em><\/div>\n
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”I am happy when I play with my friends at nursery’ – Iona<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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