Social/Emotional Experience Activity

Class average age (in months) Nineteen to Twenty-four months

Primary Objective & Infant/Toddler Standards (You must list specific

guidelines or content standards and which domains: See above example).
• Nineteen to twenty-four months, Social & Emotional
development, Expresses feelings.
• Student will be able to identify different feelings and learn how different
emotions look.

Secondary Objective & Infant Toddler Standard:

• Nineteen to Twenty-four months, Creative Expression, Begins to develop
creative thinking (appreciates music).
• Student will be able to repeat the name of the different emotions and actions
mentioned in the song.

Experience description:
Children will listen to a song that talks about feelings and then have children
recognize different emotions that they are presented with and have a conversation
about what things makes them feel those emotions (happy, sad, angry, confuse,
etc.)

Materials

• If You're Happy | Super Simple Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4WNrvVjiTw
• Plastic eggs that break in half
• Permanent markers
Scaffolding (child’s prior knowledge to build on):
• Knowledge of basic emotions (happy, sad, angry, scared, etc.)
• Knows how to open a plastic egg.

Plan for carrying out experience (what caregiver will do):

For this activity teacher will begin by playing the “If you’re happy” song a couple
times. The first time will be to listen to it and discuss it with children, stopping a
few times to ask questions like…
• What are a few things that make you feel happy?
• Is there anything that makes you feel angry?
• What makes you feel scare and why?
• What are a few things you like to do to make you sleepy?

After playing the song and discussing it with the children the teacher will play the
song a second time this time it will be for children to try to sing and dance along to
it. After this the children will be able to play with emotion eggs.

For this activity teacher will begin by drawing a variety of facial expressions on
each of the plastic eggs, emotions like being happy, sad, confused, angry, proud
etc. The fun part of these emotion eggs is that you can break and mix them up to
create a whole lot of new and interesting emotions. It’s going to be fun for the
children to see how much a face can change just by the shape of the eyes or
position of the mouth.

To make it more difficult all the eggs can be separated, and teacher and students
can take turns naming emotions and have them try and find the eggs that make the
face of the emotion that is require also have them try and repeat that same with
their own face.
Assessment
A. How would you be able to determine the success of this activity?
If children are able to recognize and describe different feelings (emotions) in their
self and in others this activity will be a success because it can lead to children
learning about empathy and importance of being kind.

B. Do you feel children’s knowledge based on this experience? (Do I see this
new knowledge being learned in other areas)
By learning this, children are going to be able to identify different emotions not
just in their self but in others and can potentially start to identify them in other
things (books, songs, movies, etc.)