Rainbow Fish

Today, we have been learning about different emotions, talking about what we can feel and what makes us feel that way. We decided to focus on the story ‘Rainbow Fish’ as we thought this gives us lots of opportunities to talk about different feelings as we refer to the characters throughout the story. After watching the story, we got creative and made our very own shiny scales. The children loved getting creative, choosing different colours and materials to design their own scale. Once we had all made our individual scale, we added them onto our rainbow fish costume to make a real life rainbow fish. For group time, we used this to bring the story to life! While acting out the story, the children noticed the different emotions for each story character. At the end of the story, the rainbow fish began to share the scales with her friends. The children noticed that the fish was no longer sad and instead was happy again! Everyone then took their indvidual scale that they had been given and stuck it on to our rainbow fish picture. The children was so proud of themselves for all working together to create a beautiful rainbow fish. It’s took pride and place on our wow wall!

Today our sign of the day is ‘sad’. This fitted in perfectly with our theme as the children used the sign for sad when talking about the characters feelings. Take a look at our ‘sign of the day’ and sign it at home!