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    Social and Emotional Well-Being
    Social and Emotional Well-Being
    Social and Emotional Well-Being
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    Social and Emotional Well-Being

    By Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks and Becky S. Bennett

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    Young children are better able to cope with their ever-changing world, overcome obstacles, and grow into emotionally healthy adults if they are provided opportunities to build their self-awareness and confidence. Help children appreciate themselves and others, explore relationships, and develop coping mechanisms for dealing with change and difficult events in their lives as they learn about self-esteem, emotions and feelings, family, friends, and changes in life.

    The curriculum includes
    Overviews of the six social and emotional well-being topics
    Suggested interest area materials and supports for creating the learning environment
    Learning objectives and vocabulary words to introduce and use
    Suggestions for evaluating children’s understanding of each topic
    More than 30 hands-on classroom activities
    Family information and take-home activities

    This book is part of the Growing, Growing Strong series, a whole-health curriculum for children age three though kindergarten. Together, the books provide a complete set of activities and resources to help you support children’s growth and wellness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRedleaf Press
    Release dateJan 15, 2014
    ISBN9781605543345
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      Social and Emotional Well-Being - Connie Jo Smith

      Introduction

      Young children are better able to cope with their ever-changing world, to overcome obstacles, and even to thrive and grow into emotionally healthy adults if they are provided opportunities to build their self-awareness and confidence. Caregivers can play an important role in helping children celebrate their individual differences, as well as develop acceptance and understanding of how each individual possesses differences, strengths, and abilities. Assisting children in recognizing and building on their individual strengths and recognizing those of others will allow each child to develop both appreciation of others and a sense of self-worth and confidence, key traits for social and emotional development addressed within this curriculum.

      As children engage with the world around them, they will experience many emotions, some of which they will have more or less difficulty in handling. Through this curriculum, you can help each child identify and express feelings at a level suitable to her language skills and development, adding to her self-awareness and confidence. Each new experience and the resulting feelings can be confusing for a child. As children learn about themselves and explore their surroundings, you can support them by providing factual information and by helping them cope with and express their feelings in an appropriate manner.

      This curriculum will also help children identify their family members and friends and begin to understand their own roles in these relationships. Young children generally think of their family as the people who live under the same roof with them. Their primary caregiver may be a father, mother, grandparent, sibling, aunt, uncle, stepparent, foster parent, or other guardian. In addition, many children have extended families and may have homes in more than one place. A child’s sense of belonging in a family and home may be defined in a variety of ways. Regardless of the makeup, size, number, or location of those each child considers family, this curriculum will encourage exploration and acceptance of a wide variety of living situations and families.

      Curriculum topics include self-esteem, emotions and feelings, family, friends, and change in children’s lives. Activities and resources will help children learn to appreciate themselves and others, begin to recognize various family structures and cultures, explore friend and family relationships, and develop coping mechanisms for dealing with change and difficult events in their lives.

      Each chapter covers one topic and starts with an overview that includes suggested interest area materials, learning objectives, vocabulary words to introduce and use (which should include vocabulary words in the languages spoken by the families of children in the class), supports for creating the learning environment, and suggestions for evaluating children’s understanding of the topic. The overview is followed by activity ideas. Icons appear with each activity to identify the areas of development and learning integrated into the activity:

      Each chapter concludes with a family information page and a take-home family activity page, both of which can be photocopied from the book and distributed to families. These pages can also be downloaded from the Growing, Growing Strong page at www.redleafpress.org for electronic sharing or printing.

      INTEREST AREA MATERIALS

      Dramatic Play

      two or more no-longer-working telephones

      unbreakable hand mirrors

      full-length unbreakable mirrors

      dolls that cry or laugh

      close-up photographs of faces showing a variety of ethnicities and ages

      plastic, silk, or dried flower centerpieces

      suitcases

      luggage carts

      empty boxes for packing

      family photos

      Blocks

      toy people, including adults and children

      plastic or silk flowers for hauling and props

      a variety of unbreakable mirrors

      toy moving trucks

      tiny boxes for moving

      Table Toys

      board games requiring two or more players

      puzzles showing faces

      lacing cards

      Transformers

      Lego blocks

      toy people

      dollhouse people

      dollhouse furniture

      Art

      textured objects for rubbings

      charcoal

      colored chalk

      plastic or silk flowers to incorporate into art

      yarn

      beads

      magazine pages of people’s faces for collages

      Language Arts

      puppets

      copies of birth and death certificates

      headstone pictures or catalogs

      funeral programs or bulletins from a memorial service

      posters of the life cycle of butterflies

      clothing catalogs

      recreational magazines and brochures

      friendship greeting cards (cut off the signature page from used cards)

      Library

      You’re All My Favorites by Sam McBratney

      Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin

      Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

      The Family Book by Todd Parr

      I Have a Little Problem, Said the Bear by Heinz Janisch

      Changes by Anthony Browne

      Science/Math

      butterfly garden kit

      ladybug-, frog-, praying mantis-, sea monkey-, or earthworm-growing kits

      pictures of optical illusions

      tape measures

      training wheels

      magic trick supplies

      Outdoors

      rocking boats

      double slides

      riding toys for two

      wagons

      balls

      beanbags

      pillowcases or sacks for three-legged races

      Technology

      weather radio

      listening games

      laughing boxes

      Sand, Water, and Construction

      soil for burying things

      hand trowel or shovel

      plastic, silk, or dried flowers for arranging

      stones

      food coloring and eyedroppers

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      There’s Something Special about Me!

      LEARNING OBJECTIVES

      Children will identify characteristics they like about themselves.

      Children will identify skills they have and things they want to learn.

      Children will demonstrate self-help skills, including identifying clothing preferences.

      How responsive and accepting adults are with children helps determine if the children learn to like or dislike themselves. A key element in working with children is learning to respect their level of capability and effort. Regardless of how long it takes or how recognizable the product is, a child may put a great deal of effort and pride into an activity, such as completing a

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