Emotions (Grades K-5)
Overview: Students will practice caring by recognizing and showing compassion for the emotions of others.
Character Education Objectives:
Students will:
- sort and label the different emotions on the Faces of Emotion Handouts.
- discuss how having compassion for another person’s emotions shows you care.
- illustrate emotion and share it with a friend.
Materials:
- Faces of Emotion Handout (1-4)
- I Feel Handout
- The teacher can also take pictures of familiar faces around the school posing with different faces of emotion to make the lesson more personal to the students in the building
- Discussion prompts (below)
- Family Connection Handout
Lesson Plan:
- Students work in a group or individually to sort and label the Faces of Emotion Handouts (5 min)
- Depending on skill levels students can write, trace, or use a drawing or emoticon to label.
- Discussion Prompts (5-7 mins)
- What emotion do you feel today?
- Teacher: I feel happy because I get to teach you today.
- What is hard about knowing how other people feel?
- Why do some people cry, and some people yell when they are angry?
- How can you show you care for someone when they are feeling (insert emotion)?
- What emotion do you feel today?
- Complete the I Feel Handout (5-7 mins)
- Choose an emotion you feel.
- Draw a picture of yourself when you feel that emotion.
- Write (depending on skill level) what emotion you are feeling and why.
- Share your picture with a friend (1-2 mins)
References
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