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(Unit 7) Topic 1: Emotional Intelligence 

2 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

​Lesson Plan: Identifying Emotions

​Topic 1 Page 10

Identifying Emotions

Age Group: 

• Infants
  
• Toddlers
  
• Preschool
  

Objectives:

• Children will identify emotions 

CDA Competency Standard: ​
III.9.3a

• Candidate promotes children’s sense of belonging in the classroom community.

a)      Encourages children’s social interactions

Materials: 

• Singing Voices! 

Procedure: 

1. At circle time or during another communal time begin singing the “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands” song. Start it in the usual way using the emotion happy and encourage children to act happy. 
2. Next, sing the song using a different emotion than happy. Try silly, sad, surprised, angry, frustrated, etc. and encourage children to act out the correct emotions.
3. **For older children have each child take turns singing the song and identifying an emotion.
   **For infants, sing with the child cradled in your lap, gently clapping their hands together and overdramatizing the emotions on your own face.   
   

Assessment: 

• Observe and record children’s reactions to this activity over time. Does it become easier to act out the emotions? Do infants react to certain emotions more than others?    

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