"Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more of everyone else"
-Sydney Clemens
At the beginning of each school year, we spend a lot of time learning about emotions and self-regulation. We use the Zones of Regulation to support building language around feelings and emotions (See last year's post about how we use Zones by clicking here). We spent time reading a variety of books about different feelings.
We learned that all feelings are okay. It's okay to be sad, or scared, or angry, or frustrated, or happy.
We read the book 'How are you Peeling? Foods with Moods', which inspired a wonderful art and literacy project for our learners. Our artists decided they wanted to create their own foods with feelings.
Our artists used their knowledge of feelings to create a representation of different emotions using clay/plasticine.
We then turned their artwork into a book! Our writers added words to describe each feeling.
(We used the company Book Bub to have our book published).
Here is a peak into our book:
