Surprised is the sudden, wide-eyed feeling you get when something you did not expect happens — like a friend jumping out from behind a door or getting an unexpected gift. Surprises can feel good or bad, and the feeling usually does not last very long.
Play a simple surprise game like peek-a-boo or hide-and-seek and talk about how the surprise felt. Show pictures of surprised faces and discuss what might have happened. Ask children to share a time they were surprised and whether it was a happy surprise or a scary one.
Surprised is the sudden, wide-eyed feeling you get when something you did not expect happens. You might feel surprised when a friend jumps out from behind a door, or when you get an unexpected gift, or when something happens really fast. Surprise hits you all at once, and it happens so quickly that you do not even have time to think about it.
Here is something important to know: surprises can feel good or bad. Some surprises are happy surprises that make you smile and laugh. Other surprises can feel scary or upsetting. A birthday cake surprise is happy, but being startled by a loud noise is not a fun surprise. Both are surprises, but they feel different inside.
People sometimes mix up surprise with fear, but they are different feelings. Surprise is about something unexpected — you did not see it coming. Fear is about something dangerous — you are worried about being hurt. A surprise could be a friend popping up to say hello. Fear would be if that same friend jumped out and you thought they might hurt you. Can you see the difference?
One special thing about surprises is that you cannot control them. They happen before your brain has time to think, "Oh, this is coming!" Surprise just happens. But what you CAN do is think about how you feel after the surprise and decide if it was a good surprise or a scary surprise.
Surprises are part of life, and they teach us to notice the world around us. Some surprises will make you smile, and some will make you jump. Both are okay. And soon, the surprised feeling will fade, and you will feel the next feeling.
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