Friday, January 7, 2011

Explore Emotions with Dr. Seuss!

We posted about the importance of labelling and understanding emotions earlier this week, so we thought we'd follow it up with a book recommendation: My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss.

While this book may at first glance look like a book for learning colors, it also explores these colors in ways that describe a range of emotions.

My Many Colored Days"On Bright Red Days
how good it feels
to be a horse and kick my heels!"

"Some days, of course,
feel sort of Brown.
Then I feel slow
and low, low down."

While not every day uses emotion labels, the discussion while reading naturally lends itself in this direction.  Ask questions while you are reading - How does gray feel?  What about orange?  Have you ever felt like it was a yellow day?

This book comes in a hardcover, which is perfect for laptime sharing and discussion.  But in our house, we have gotten a lot of use out of the board book version, too, as it lets the child go through and explore the images and emotions portrayed at their own pace.

There is a also DVD/VHS production, which includes original music and is narrated by Holly Hunter.  While the DVD version can be tricky to find, the VHS copy is available at Amazon (link below).




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