Multilingual Feelings Wall

Part of young development includes learning about emotions and what they feel like. It is common for early educational settings like preschools and daycare centers to have a feelings wall with pictures of faces expressing different emotions. So why not include multilingual learning into the social-emotional experience: 

• Create a feelings wall that includes a range of different emotions. 

• Label each of the emotions with that emotion in multiple different languages, for example: sad, trieste, 悲伤 (bēishāng). 

• Everyday during group or circle time, have the children identify the emotions they are feeling that day in as many languages as they can identify or speak. 

• Having the children engage in this activity in a group setting will help them feel included and expose their peers to the diverse languages that their classmates speak. 

• Parents can be encouraged to support multilingual emotions learning at home too.