Assignment: Unit 5 Video Activity

there are 2 questions for this please answer them separate 

 

1. In this video, the teacher is helping the children learn how to handle difficult emotions such as anger and sadness. She is using a puppet to talk to the children and model different tools and techniques, such as physical movement such as jumping and hugging the puppet or an adult tightly. As an early childhood educator, if you did not have a puppet, what could you do instead that would accomplish the same goals? What other activities could you teach the children to express and deal appropriately with difficult emotions?

 

2. How would you change the teacher’s puppet demonstration to integrate either visual art- or music-based activities, while still providing children with opportunities to learn tools and techniques to help them identify and handle their emotions in appropriate ways?
 

 

 

the video 

 

>> Although preschool children are learning many new words and can play cooperatively with other children they still need suggestions about how to express their feelings without physically or emotionally hurting anyone else. Adults can demonstrate appropriate ways to express anger, sadness and frustration. Puppets can also be used to demonstrate effective ways to express feelings. Children will often talk to a puppet as if it is real, they might say things to a puppet that they would not say to an adult. The teacher in this preschool room uses a puppet, Pasquale, to demonstrate to the children what to do when they feel sad or mad.

>> Now, Pasquale here is going to talk to us about our feelings. When you feel angry here’s what you do. The first thing I do is I stand up, very good, and now I begin to bounce. Can you try that with me? Bounce, okay, can you bounce faster, and faster and faster? Now, can you jump, jump, jump, jump, jump — keep jumping faster, faster, faster, faster now stop! How do you feel? I feel a little bit better how about you?

>> When children have few words to express themselves they often feel better if they can express their feelings physically. Pasquale’s tricks enable children to decrease the intensity of their negative emotions by doing something physical like jumping or hugging someone hard. Hugging an adult also helps children to feel secure and safe. The children also learned tricks that used imagination redirecting their attention away from their sad or mad emotions. Children are surprised and curious when they watch a parent or adult pretend to pull sadness out of an ear. They are receiving positive attention. At the same time they’re gaining a sense of control over their emotions. Certainly the magic that occurs when they turn slowly around and count to 10 to get rid of their angry feelings is helpful to both children and adults.

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