Who am I?

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom"

- Artistotle -

Self-awareness is important to everyone, even in the early years of the children's lives. This helps children become more reflective and think about their actions and behaviours and how these affect other people around them. 

It gives them perspectives as they learn how to step back and consider what others around them are experiencing. 

Empathy. 

Putting oneself into other people's shoe. 

From the physical characteristics, likes, dislikes, preschoolers look at themselves and identify their personalities. 

This is how they look like from the outside, 

 

They then traced themselves, colored the inside with just one color.

"Why just one color?", they asked. 

Because it represents your inside traits. No one can see it because it is hidden, underneath your outside traits. It will only be known from your thoughts, actions or words. 

Then, the students had the opportunity to know more about themselves from other student's perspectives. 

They all wrote one or more traits to all the other students in class and stuck it on their pictures.

This turned out to be an exciting activity for the preschoolers. They were all proactive and serious about describing their friends. It could be a positive trait or something that they feel needs to be improved by the other person. 

It was amazing to witness everyone's reactions. 

They wrote things about each other according to what they noticed, saw, and felt about others. It was amazing how close or accurate their descriptions were.

Indeed, children watch... they remember, what we are.