A new program being piloted in a handful of Connecticut classrooms, called Feel Your Best Self, is using the joy of puppetry to teach children how to manage their feelings and empathize with others.
First-grade teacher Leticia Denoya uses puppets, as part of the Feel Your Best Self program developed at the University of Connecticut, to help students deal with emotions.
"Yuck is all those heavy feelings. Like when I'm nervous or scared or both, I imagine those feelings are stuck all over me," one puppet says."And then I shake them off, like this..."Natchaug Elementary first graders Dayshaneliz and Anaelise play with their handmade puppets.There's science behind teaching kids to 'Push The Clouds' of heavy feelings
While the videos may be steeped in research, they sport kid-friendly names like"Float Your Boat" and"Chillax In My Head," and spotlight puppet heroes CJ, Mena and Nico, who are rendered in warm purples and reds, with emotive smiles and saucer eyes reminiscent of"Sesame Street." Denoya, the first-grade teacher at Natchaug Elementary, has seen it firsthand: Kids returned from the pandemic with missing or rusty social and emotional skills. They had trouble sharing, learning how to take turns and dealing with disappointment.
"There's just things that they missed out on with not having that socialization, and so we need to find a place to teach it at school too," first-grade teacher Leticia Denoya says.
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