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Question

I am in college studying to be a teacher and am writing an activity plan dealing with faces. I am going to explain to them that we can sometimes tell what people are thinking by the look on their face (Surprised, scared, nervous, excited, happy) and then I am going to give them a chance to make some facial expressions while looking in the mirror. My professor says that I need another activity to go along with it....something they can do hands on but I cannot think for the life of me what that might be...Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Hi, why not ask the children to draw different faces on how they are feeling today and ask them to explain it to the rest of the children, or you could ask them to draw pictures of how they think their friends are feeling , happy / sad ect, I think it would be interesting to see how they interpret how others are feeling around them.

Answer 2

There used to be a book called Happy, Mad, Silly, Sad that had the character of a bear in it along with emotion "face plates" for the bear. The child would pick the correct face plate to put on the picture to show what emotion the bear would have.

What about having them make emotion dials - use a circular piece of paper and have them draw four small pictures of various emotions at 12, 3, 9 and 6 o'clock on the paper. Have another circular piece of paper with a s window cut into it that can show the pictures. Connect the two papers together with one of those bend open clips at the center. The kids can then show you how they feel by "dialing" the emotion.

Answer 3

Get some balloons and draw different emotion faces on them. Then make up a game...

Try musical balloons..... the children pass the balloon around, and when the music stops, get the child to make the face on the balloon. Get them to try and identify the emotion verbally.

My preschool age children love playing this game.... and you can make it simple, or more complex depending on the age of the children.... think about this in your plan, if the activity seems too simple, write in your plan an extra step they can do, if it seems to simple when you are doing it, or if they find the basics too difficult, then don't go the next step..... makes for good evaluation of your plan afterwards too.

Answer 4

How about writing up a few different scenarios on paper giving 1 person at a time the chance to sit in front facing the class but they must read the article/story silently and allow the class to judge by the look on their face whether it was a believable scary, happy, sad, puzzling, tragic or loving article/story.
See if the class is good at analyzing their fellow students face.
Hope this helps,-

Answer 5

In a public school you will need a teacher certification - which will require a BA and student teaching. During student teaching you will receive no income for 16 weeks unless you work nights (VERY difficult during student teaching). States offer different options for the certification. Some offer Early Childhood Ed which is birth through age 8 (third grade) that would let you teach K, but some only offer Elementary (K-6). Both are different than the degree in Child & Family Development that many schools offer. While it also trains you to work with young children, it does NOT certify you to teach above preschool.

Another option is to find out if any of your local public schools offer a preschool program on-site. Its a growing trend and many schools are piloting preschool programs. Not sure if they would require you to be degreed or certified, but you get the same benefits as a public school teacher and would most likely earn quite a bit more than you do now.

I would suggest contacting a school and asking to "shadow" a K teacher for a day to see what a typical work day is like. Mention to them that you work in early childhood ed as a preschool teacher and are considering pursuing teacher certification. I assume that you are required by your preschool to have a criminal background check and TB test on file. You might mention this to them as their volunteers & employees must have these.

Also, some larger preschools offer tuition reimbursement for teachers intending to become degreed or certified. If yours does not, there are also several scholarships from ECE professional organizations at the state and national level that might help you with the financial aspect of continued schooling. Best of luck!

Answer 6

If you have such a good quality you may do some other that when you look the expressions you may give them how to use that condition or get out of the worried condition-that will also helped them and side by side you also satisfied to do some noble work, while you are going to earn- it would not be very hard - I think so.

Answer 7

You could refer to the current TSA training involving recognizing moods through facial expressions. They train TSA operatives in the facial expressions of people who are sad, nervous, determined, scared, etc. and use that to select people for more thorough searches.

Answer 8

Get some mannequin heads that they display wigs on. Then pick up different facial parts at a craft store and let them make their own faces.

Answer 9

There's a great magazine called Wonder Time. It's for preschoolers. I love it. When the smaller kids are here I use it for all kinds of ideas.I got my first copy free off the website. You'll love it..the things in it are so neat for little ones to do..crafts..fun..food..reading..
memories to share..it's just wonderful

Answer 10

Have them draw different facial expressions matching scenarios that you present to them. They love to draw, it keeps them busy and it will give you a bit more time for your lesson.