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Recognising emotions through puppet play

Recognising emotions through puppet play

At Beststart Rongotai we have a strong focus on our building our social emotional skills. Social emotional skills like recognising emotions in oneself and others help us to positively take part in social interaction with others as well as take care of our own emotional wellbeing. 

Kaiako at BestStart Rongotai know this and work hard to incorporate socio-emotional skills in their teaching practice. One fun way to do this is teaching about recognising emotions through puppet play. Tamariki love puppets. Puppet play and show are interactive in nature and teach children how and when to recognise emotions in the puppet play as well as their daily lives.

Kaiako also incorporate calming strategies via the puppets to teach children how to manage their big emotions.