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Feel-good factors

Help children explore their various moods using these fun activities suggested by Jean Evans Encourage children to discuss their mood changes as they sympathise with the main character in this charming story.

Encourage children to discuss their mood changes as they sympathise with the main character in this charming story.

In The Good Mood Hunt by Hiawyn Oram and Joanne Partis (Oxford University Press, 4.99), Hannah wakes up so happy that everyone catches her good mood ... until she remembers something that makes her good mood disappear.

Approach

Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (page 11) emphasises the importance of providing children with a balance of adult-led and child-initiated learning.

This project therefore:

* identifies adult-led activities to introduce or develop children's understanding of the topic through stimulating, meaningful experiences which offer challenge.

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