How Do You Teach Preschool Children About Emotions & Feelings?
Learning about feelings is an important part of a child’s development. Preschool children experience a wide range of emotions, but are not always able to identify or control them. Teaching young children about feelings will help them express their own feelings in a more productive way. It will also help children learn to respond to the emotions of others appropriately. This might mean showing empathy when someone is sad or laughing when a friend is feeling silly. Teaching a unit about feelings and emotions to preschool children will be a valuable experience. Read a book about feelings to the children. “Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day” by Jamie Lee Curtis or “How Are You Peeling?” by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers are two good choices. On chart paper, list four common feelings that children will know: happy, sad, mad, scared. Discuss each feeling and have students give examples of when they felt that way. Discuss how people look when they feel certain ways. Call
