This week in Amazing Me, Robins have been exploring feelings and emotions through the familiar story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
As we listened to the story, we thought about how Goldilocks felt at different points. We talked about how she felt hungry and lost when she was in the woods, and then happy when she discovered the bears’ porridge! Her feelings changed when Baby Bear’s chair broke, making her feel sad, and after all her exploring she became very tired and fell asleep.
We wondered how Goldilocks felt when she heard the bears coming home. The children decided she might have felt frightened, worried or scared! We also thought about how Baby Bear might have felt when he discovered that someone had eaten his porridge, broken his chair and was sleeping in his bed. We discussed words such as sad, cross, surprised and frightened.
The children then shared their own experiences and talked about what makes us feel happy, sad, cross or scared. This provided lots of opportunities for developing our Personal, Social and Emotional Development, particularly recognising and naming different emotions, expressing how we feel and beginning to understand that other people may feel differently from us.
We also took our learning outside! The children went on a Goldilocks treasure hunt around the school field, searching for items from the story. They had great fun spotting and identifying the different objects and remembering where they appeared in the story.
We became storytellers and actors, taking turns to act out Goldilocks and the Three Bears using our story masks. The children used their Communication and Language skills to retell familiar parts of the story, listened to one another and used actions and expression to bring the characters to life.
Back in the classroom, the children became artists and storytellers, drawing their favourite parts of the story and pictures of the different characters. They thought carefully about the characters they wanted to draw and used their pictures to help them recall and talk about events from the story. This gave the children opportunities to develop their fine motor skills, and express their ideas through drawing.
Through our activities this week, the children have been developing their ability to talk about emotions, understand characters’ feelings, retell a familiar story, listen and take turns, use new vocabulary, develop their fine motor skills and express themselves through drawing and role play.
It has been wonderful to see Robins becoming such confident little storytellers, artists and actors, while learning more about themselves and their feelings.
