{"id":982,"date":"2010-02-28T23:35:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=982"},"modified":"2010-03-06T20:17:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T20:17:27","slug":"primate-feelings-and-communication-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Primate feelings and communication activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14th September 2009<\/p>\n<h2>Primate feelings and communication activities<\/h2>\n<p>By Lucy Garnett Co project coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Today we again visited Letaba special needs school, to give a talk to the children about feelings and emotions and how people can express their feelings.<br \/>\nWe made a communication board for children whom find it hard to communicate feelings.\u00a0 This was created by our activities team, as the teachers has expressed the need for more communication with feelings.\u00a0 It was a simple <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-541\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"child using communication board\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_0532-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"child using communication board\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_0532-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_0532-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>jungle scene with three vervet monkeys that have no faces, and on a separate sheet there was 14 vervet monkey faces with 7 different expressions on, the aim of the board is to match their feelings with a face of one of the monkeys, where they stick the face onto the board.\u00a0 This seemed very effective and the children took to the board very well, they recognised the monkeys In the picture as the school has vervet monkeys around the grounds.<br \/>\nThe children expressed times when they may feel sad, for example one girl said she would feel sad if someone in her family had died\u00a0 Another girl said she would feel excited when she passed her exam, another said she would feel worried if one of her family members was sick.\u00a0 The children appeared to relate well to this and were interacting well with the communication boards.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-542\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"child from Letaba school \" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_0544-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"child from Letaba school \" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_0544-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_0544-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We then showed the children a short primate video, and explained how the monkeys behave, how they feel and that it is the same for humans sometimes.\u00a0 A lot of the children hadn\u2019t heard of or seen some of the animals we were talking about, they appeared very interested when watching the video. They related to the emotions that we feel and how we all express feelings, they asked us questions about primates and how they feel.\u00a0 They also asked us lots of questions about the different primates they had seen in the video.<br \/>\nThe talk appeared to go really well and all the children learnt that expressing feelings is a good thing, and that humans aren\u2019t the only primate who does that.\u00a0 They were also encouraged to use the communication board with their teachers. They seemed happy and pleased to do this.\u00a0 The teachers said that this would help a lot with the children whom couldn\u2019t communicate by words to express their feelings, worries, and emotions.<br \/>\nThe day was rounded off by a game of football with the Yebo volunteers and the children, which we all thoroughly enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-543\" title=\"volunteer playing football with children \" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_9683-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"volunteer playing football with children \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_9683-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_9683-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_9683.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children discover their feelings, by relating them to primates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}