Nursery World - Finer feelings (1)

Plan a range of collaborative activities that explore what is good and bad about being happy and sad By the age of three or four years old, most children have acquired an awareness of themselves as a separate personality from their peers and are beginning to be able to identify the similarities and differences in their likes and dislikes that connect them to and distinguish them from their friends. Practitioners can help children develop learning partnerships with each other.

By the age of three or four years old, most children have acquired an awareness of themselves as a separate personality from their peers and are beginning to be able to identify the similarities and differences in their likes and dislikes that connect them to and distinguish them from their friends. Practitioners can help children develop learning partnerships with each other.

Making contact

* Provide opportunities for the children to make connections with each other by introducing them to each other by name. Model how to smile when you are introduced and say something positive about each child.

* Rehearse with the children saying 'hello' and how to look happy and then sad.

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