(happy upbeat guitar music) - Hello, little learners, welcome back to your classroom.

My name is Miss Laura.

Hello, I'm so happy you're here today.

Now you can tell I'm happy because I have a big smile on my face and my eyes are bright and lit up.

How are you feeling this morning?

I hope you're just as happy as I am.

Now this week, we're learning all about feelings and another word for that is emotions.

So I'm gonna put another magnet on my board here to make two, so I have one.

Add one together that makes two, that's right.

Because today is day two of our study of feelings.

Now, today we have another book that's about a monkey who's having a very not so great, horrible, terrible, awful day.

Do you ever have any of those?

Yeah, me too.

So we're gonna learn about all of the monkeys adventures, learn some new vocabulary words.

Then you're gonna help me label some of the feelings that were in the story.

So get your writing tools out because we're gonna be writing the beginning sound.

After we do that, we're gonna go over to the project place where I'm gonna show you how to create feelings on a Playdoh mat.

And I'm gonna tell you different stories.

You're gonna try to guess how the person might feel.

So are you ready to get started with the song of course.

Do you remember our song?

It's a feeling song in English and then one in Spanish.

Now in the English version, they call feelings, emotions and they list off a few.

You'll see me make faces as I say them, you try to copy me.

All right, you ready?

♪ Happy, proud, surprised, and sad ♪ ♪ Anxious, calm, confused and mad ♪ ♪ Upset, shocked, confused, and glad ♪ ♪ These these are some emotions ♪ ♪ Lonely, thankful, safe and shy ♪ ♪ Nervous, silly, terrified ♪ ♪ Cheerful, fearful, sometimes tearful ♪ ♪ These are some emotions ♪ Can you think of any more emotions or feelings?

Yeah, you can add them to the song just change the words.

Now we're gonna learn some Spanish.

So I told you corazón is heart.

And the next word we're gonna learn is casita, casita means little house.

And in our feeling song in Spanish it's saying that my heart is in a little house.

So let's start our song in Spanish (singing in foreign language) Let's do it one more time (singing in foreign language) So now, you know the least two Spanish words if you didn't know them before, corazón and casita.

Now we're gonna learn a few vocabulary words in English before we start our book.

So let's see what we have behind the door.

We have our first word, grumpy.

Say that word with me, grumpy, grumpy a special letter, G. Grumpy, you're in a bad mood.

You get angry really easily.

So let's say you woke up and you just didn't get enough sleep.

You might be grumpy.

The next word is hunched, hunched.

Special letter H, it means to bend the top of your body forward.

Try it with me, hunched.

Kind of bend it forward like that.

Whew, I cracked, I think I'm getting a little old.

The next word is frown.

Can you say it with me, frown.

Special letter F. Frown is when your eyebrows are scrunched up.

You're upset, you're sad, your eyebrows go like this.

Now in our story, our monkey is going to frown a lot.

So let's pull out our book and see where we find these words.

Because now of course, we know what they mean.

So here's our book, "Grumpy Monkey."

And don't you just love the art on the front cover.

Look, that monkey looks terrifying.

He looks sad, he looks mad, he looks angry.

Don't mess with this grumpy monkey.

I wonder what made him grumpy.

Can you take a guess?

Yeah, maybe he didn't get enough bananas, huh?

Or enough sleep, I wonder.

This book is by Susan Lang.

She's the author, she wrote the words in the story.

It's illustrated by Max Lang.

That's the person who drew the pictures like this one.

So let's read it and find out what happened with grumpy monkey.

All right, here we go.

One, here we go.

Here's the front Grumpy Monkey.

One wonderful day, Jim Pansy woke up to discover that nothing was right.

So there he is awake, but does he look very happy?

Nope.

The sun was too bright, the sky was too blue and the bananas were too sweet.

Not having a good day, huh?

Jim was confused.

He said, "What's going on with me?"

"Maybe you're grumpy," suggested Norman from next door.

So there's Norman getting some bananas and to him the bananas taste just right, but not to Jim.

"I'm not grumpy," Jim insisted.

So there he is, poor Norman just trying to help.

And Jim said not grumpy in a mean way.

Is that a good way to treat a friend?

On his walk he met Marabu.

"Jim's grumpy," Norman told Marabu.

"Why are you grumpy Jim?"

Asked Marabu, "It's such a wonderful day."

"Grumpy, me?"

Said Jim, "I'm not grumpy."

"But look at how you're standing."

"It's true," said Norman.

"You're all hunched."

Remember hunched means you're kind of bent over.

And look he's hunched over right here.

So Jim loosened up, so there he is loosening up.

Then he ran into Lemur, "Jim's grumpy."

Norman told Lemur.

"Why are you so grumpy, Jim?"

Asked Lemur, "It's such a wonderful day."

"Grumpy, me?"

Of course we know what he's gonna say, can you say it with me?

"I'm not grumpy."

"But your eyebrows look grumpy," said Lemur.

"It's true," said Norman.

"They're all bunched up."

And remember we talked about being grumpy is your eyebrows being bunched up and maybe you're hunched over.

So Jim raised his brow.

So what is Jim trying to do in this story?

All of his friends are telling him that he looks and seems grumpy.

So he's trying to change that.

I wonder if that's going to change how he feels inside.

Then he tripped over snake.

"Oh, no," said Norman.

"That's the last thing you need "when you're feeling so grumpy."

"Grumpy, me?"

Said Jim, say it with me.

"I'm not grumpy!"

"Then why that frown?"

Said snake.

"I think it's because he tripped over you," said Norman.

So Jim put on a smile.

So now Jim is loosened up.

His eyebrows are raised and he puts on a smile.

I wonder if he's not gonna be grumpy anymore.

Well, there he is, how does he look?

Can you make a face like that?

Jim looked happy, but he didn't feel happy inside.

And that's true, right?

When you're feeling sad, sometimes just smiling doesn't help.

You have to find out what's making you sad.

So let's see what Jim does.

Everyone wanted Jim to enjoy this wonderful day.

"You should sing with us," said the birds.

♪ Da, La, La, La, La ♪ But Jim didn't feel like singing.

There he is all hunched over on top of a rock and he's even turning red.

When an illustrator, the one who draws the picture, uses red it's usually to show anger.

So I think Jim is getting angry.

"You should swing with us!"

Said the monkeys.

Jim didn't feel like swinging.

"You should roll with us."

Said the zebras, and look at their rolling.

But of course, Jim didn't feel like rolling.

"You should stroll with us," said the peacocks.

But Jim didn't feel like strolling.

"You should lie in the grass."

Look at the lion.

Oh, do you think Jim is gonna agree?

Nope.

"You should stomp your feet."

(laughs) Let's see.

But Jim didn't feel like doing any of that.

"Why are you grumpy, Jim?"

Asked the others.

"It's such a wonderful day."

Now look at these words.

They're big, black words and it's all red.

Remember I told you the illustrator uses red to show anger.

And look at Jim looks like he's screaming now.

Now think back what has Jim said when everyone's questioning why he's grumpy?

You can read it with me.

He says, "I'm not grumpy!"

He even pounded his chest.

Oh, he's real mad.

And he's stormed off, there he is storming off and his friends are like, what happened with Jim?

We're having such a good day.

And there he goes, walking away, I just don't get it.

Jim felt sorry, a little, sorry for his shouting.

He shouted at everything and everyone but mostly sorry for himself.

"I guess I am grumpy," he said, and just as he was starting to feel really sad he came upon Norman, Norman was slumped.

So this is Norman.

His eyebrows were bunched up and he was frowning.

So how was Norman feeling?

Yeah, probably grumpy.

"What's the matter, are you grumpy?"

Asked Jim.

"No, I danced with porcupine," said Norman.

Oh, look, I see the problem.

Do you see that?

What happened when he danced with porcupine?

I think he got stung, stuck with some quills.

Let's see.

"Are you okay?"

asked Jim.

"It hurts but I'll probably feel better soon enough."

Said Norman, "Are you still grumpy?"

"Yes," said Jim, "but I'll probably feel better "soon enough too, but now I need to be grumpy."

"It's a wonderful day to be grumpy," said Norman.

And Jim agreed.

And he already felt a little bit better.

The end.

So in our story, our grumpy monkey was trying to tell everyone he wasn't grumpy, even tried to pretend that he was happy, but in the end he decided that he was grumpy and that was okay.

And it's true, it's okay to feel however you're feeling at the time.

And if it's a strong feeling, remember we stop name our feeling and take our five belly breaths, right?

All right, so an important thing that we learned is naming our feeling.

But what if you don't know the names of our feelings?

So here in this activity, we're gonna practice.

So I have Jim Pansy, and our activity is called, how does Jim feel?

So we're gonna look at each picture and you're gonna help me write the beginning sound of how Jim is feeling.

So let's see right here, Jim has his hand like this and he's looking like, maybe he doesn't know what's going on.

What do you call that?

Confused, that's right.

C-c, yes, two letters make that sound.

But I want the one that looks like a big curve.

A C, for confused.

When you're confused you don't know what's gonna go on or what's happening.

Jim is confused.

Now let's look at the bottom one.

Jim is hunched over.

He has a big cloud above him and he's frowning and his eyebrows are all hunched.

He could be grumpy or he could be, mad.

That's right, mad.

If I was going to write the beginning sound what might I write?

M, M, that's right.

Big line, big line, big line, big line.

M for mad.

The feeling when something just isn't going your way.

Now here, Jim is sitting on the rock and he's thinking now I'm all alone.

There's no one else beside me.

His mouth is kind of turned over like this.

He could be sad, but when you're all alone you might feel a little lonely.

That's right.

Let's catch that beginning sound L, lonely.

L, L, that's right.

So it's big line down little line across, L for lonely.

A feeling you feel when you're all by yourself.

Let's do a few more.

Ooh, look at Jim's eyes.

He's all cross sided, it looks like he's dancing.

Maybe he's feeling a little bit silly, silly.

S, silly, S, S, that's right.

S for silly.

Little curve and little curve the other way.

We have three more to go.

You're doing great.

You might even practice making a face like Jim as we label our feelings.

Now in this one Jim has his arms right here and hands right by his hips.

And he's making a huge, like backward smile.

What is that called?

A frown, that's right.

I think he even has a tear in his eye.

When you're about to cry, how do you feel?

Sad, yes, S, sad.

S for sad.

Let's do our two more.

Here he is running.

Maybe Jim is running because there's a huge birthday cake and he wants to try to eat it all up.

He might be feeling, happy.

H, H, happy, each for happy.

And our last one let's see.

Jim is sitting on a rock.

He has a huge smile on his face.

He's looking up like he's thinking of somebody or something.

How do you think Jim is feeling?

Maybe he's feeling peaceful.

P, P, peaceful.

And you might think he's feeling another way.

You can write down whatever that letter is but I'm gonna write P for peaceful.

So I hope that you practice labeling emotions or feelings either with their beginning sound or by looking at the people around you.

Sometimes even just asking, are you feeling sad?

See if you get it right.

Hey, we're gonna head over to the project place for a really quick activity involving Playdoh, woo ho!

I love me some Playdoh.

Now for this activity you're going to need Playdoh and a Playdoh mat.

Now I got these for free on the internet but you don't have to be fancy with the color printer and use like plastic.

You can actually just use like a page protector that you might have and then just draw a face, a big circle.

Then we're gonna add how the person is feeling with our Playdoh.

So let's use this one, right?

I want you to look at this picture.

Think about how this child might be feeling.

What if I told you a little story about it?

This student or child was having a wonderful day.

It was field day and they got to play their favorite game outside with water balloons.

How do you think they're feeling?

Yes, happy.

How do you know?

She's smiling, her eyes are bright.

So let's make this happy face right here on our model.

I'm gonna use some white Playdoh.

Now, I love using Playdoh because it's not only about the learning that's happening with the Playdoh but it also allows for some fine motor skill development.

Because as you kneed the Playdoh like this you're really using your finger strength and think about how you hold a pencil.

You really need to have those muscles well developed.

So I learned that they're happy.

So I'm gonna do two eyes right here, like this.

And when I think of having being a nose, oh, a pointy little nose.

And then I will do a big smiley face.

So for that, I need to roll out on my Playdoh, like a snake.

I always have trouble doing that and do a big, huge smile.

I'm gonna show you what that looks like.

What do you think, happy?

I think so too.

Let's try another feeling, so here we go.

We'll use this little girl.

And oh, look at this feeling.

How do you think the boy in the picture is feeling, and how do you know?

It looks like he's on a phone call, maybe a pretend call and his mouth is open and his eyebrows, do you see them?

They're all scrunched up.

Hmm, do you think that he's angry?

I think so too, I think he's angry.

So let's make an angry face right here.

I'm gonna use my blue Playdoh.

So first thing we need are some eyes.

I'm gonna make her eyes a little bit smaller right here and then a nose.

But the thing that makes a face look angry is the eyebrows.

So look, it looks really basic but I'm gonna do some thick eyebrows and they're gonna come in, you'll see in just a moment.

You're following along with me with your Playdoh.

Think about the eyebrows on this picture.

They're all scrunched up.

Oh, I'm gonna be scared of this little girl when I'm done.

Some thick eyebrows here and maybe just one line for a mouth.

Okay, tell me what do you think?

Yeah, angry, huh?

You could even make her mouth open like in the picture, like she's yelling.

Oh, scary, I hope we have a good emotion.

Let's try another one.

How about this one in this picture?

So in this picture, the little girl is tearful.

She was tears streaming down her face.

Well, guess what?

She wanted to stay up.

But her parents said, "It's time to go to bed.

"No, staying up for you."

So she started crying.

How do you think she's feeling?

Sad, right?

I know she's sad because look at her frown and her eyes are full of water.

So let's see if we can make a sad face while use my yellow Playdoh.

Get it out, start with your eyes.

What do you think if your sad is coming from your eyes?

Maybe some tears, water.

Yeah, we'll do a nose here.

Okay, here's what it's looking like to start except I'm gonna do some tears and I think I'm gonna do some tears in blue because they're watery.

They're gonna come down.

How many tears should we make, two tears?

Okay, let's do some tears coming down.

And now if you think about a teardrop, it kind of looks like it has a point and then a circle.

You can't really get them to do that here, let's see.

You can just kind of make a snake and smash it in.

And this will be our last one before I show you my book recommendation and maybe we'll do a smile, an upside down smile, a frown, right?

Because we're doing sad.

I'll do it in orange.

Again, playdoh snake like this.

I'm so good at it, give myself a pat on the back.

And here it is, sad.

Oh, strong feeling.

So I hope that you're able to get some activity mats like this because this can be great to do in a small group as you're reading a story and stop along the way and ask children, well, how is the character feeling?

Or if you're at home and your child is just not feeling well, you can have them actually show you how they're feeling using the Playdoh.

So here is my book recommendation.

Of course I couldn't read Grumpy Monkey without bringing out an old favorite by Eric Carl.

Do you remember this one?

I think we read it here in reading explorers.

It's the "Grouchy Ladybug."

Now this ladybug need an attitude adjustment.

He was going around, trying to pick fights with people that were bigger than him, and animals that were bigger than him.

So let's look, if you remember each one of these flaps had a different animal that the poor ladybug was trying to fight.

Imagine if the big Orangutans or gorilla tried to fight the ladybug.

Squish, that would be the end of the ladybug.

So at the very end of the story, he meets a whale and flaps over to the place where he started.

But now he's feeling much better and he's much kinder.

He learned his lesson.

So I hope that you check out this book.

There are so many about being grumpy and grouchy, that you can learn and love to read.

Okay, so now it's time for us to say goodbye.

So I'm gonna give you my big squeeze, my big smooch.

And remind you to read, to learn and play, and use your imagination every single day.

I hope that you join me tomorrow, goodbye.

(upbeat guitar music)