Partner with families to learn about their language practices, stories, and literacy-related interactions at home, recognizing that children bring rich knowledge and skills from their first languages and cultural experiences. Dual language learners should have opportunities to demonstrate proficiency in the standard in both their first language and English, with supports such as first-language use, cross-language connections, gestures, visuals, and props. These opportunities allow young dual language learners to build on what they know and can do in their first language as they continue to develop communication, language, and literacy skills in all their languages.
Provide plastic eggs and squares of paper with a different emotion depicted on each. Place a square inside each egg. Have the children “crack” the eggs open and share the emotions. You may have to read out the feeling or use a photo. Say, “Tell about a time you felt that way,” or “What would make you feel that way?”
