Llama Llama Misses Mama

http://youtu.be/39R1EZ2SVKA ---> the link to to watch Llama Llama Misses Mama book be read.

Examples of activities that can be used while reading Llama Llama Misses Mama and throughtout the day to promote social and emotional development.

 • Before reading the book, talk about what it means to miss someone and feel alone or lonely. Ask the children if they have ever missed someone. How did they feel? What did they do to feel better? Ask the children if they can think of a time when someone might feel all alone because they miss someone special. Ask the children if they sometimes miss someone when they come to school? Tell the children that you are going to read a book about a little llama on his first day of school! Read the title of the book and see if the children can guess who the little llama misses!

• Have children bring in pictures of their family, or people that they might miss while they are at school. If children don’t have a photo to bring to school, have them draw a picture of the people in their family. Have children “show and tell” the pictures to one another so that everyone in the class can meet each other’s families. You can bring in a picture and talk about your family too! Make a bulletin board in the classroom with everyone’s photos. Tell the children that if they miss Mom/Dad/Grandma, they might feel better if they see a picture of that person. Also, remind children that their Mom/Dad/Grandma will come back at the end of the day.

• Discuss how to tell if a friend is feeling alone and what to do to make him feel happy again. How could we tell that Llama felt lonely (he started to cry, he didn’t want to eat, he didn’t want to read a book or take a ride on the Chugga-Choo)? What did the children and teacher do to try to make Llama feel better (teacher told him that mama would come back, other children asked Llama to play, they showed him the playhouse and the slide)? Ask what the children would do if one of their friends felt alone and lonely.

My daughter just got this book in the mail from Dolly's Imagination Library. It is a good book to help children learn to talk about their feelings. I would recamend to read it to a young child that is just starting to go to school, or for the first time that the child is going to be away for a parent or caregiver. I have included a link to youtube and some activities to do with children.