​Objectives:

• Explore a variety of emotions
• Match facial features to an emotion

Standards:

• Demonstrate critical thinking skills to make informed decisions
• Demonstrate creativity
• Demonstrate ability to work independently

Materials:

• The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
• Feelings pumpkin worksheet (linked below)
• Pumpkin Feelings cards

Directions:
Read the story The Way I Feel. 
Discuss how we have lots of feelings and how they are constantly changing. Remind students that it is okay to have any feeling, how we show those feelings needs to be done in a safe manner.
Show pumpkin emotion cards and have students guess what emotion they are. 
Have students draw their own pumpkin faces for happy, sad, silly, and mad.

​Objectives:

• Learn about various feelings
• Identify what zone a feeling belongs in

Standards:

• Demonstrate social maturity and behaviors appropriate to the situation and environment
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills to make informed decisions
• Demonstrate creativity
• Demonstrate ability to work independently

​Materials:

• The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
• Feelings Pumpkin worksheet
• Pumpkin Feelings cards
• Zones of Regulation Poster

Directions:
Explain that today we’re going to learn about feelings. We’re going to learn how to sort feelings into 4 different categories based on how your brain and body feel.
Blue - body is running slow, not much energy, tired, sick, sad, or bored
Green - body feels good to go, like a green light, happy, calm, focused
Yellow - caution and slow down, body is starting to lose control, feel silly, wiggly, excited, worried, anxious, surprised
Red - out of control and need to stop, extreme feelings like anger, extreme nervous
Read the story The Way I Feel.
Show Pumpkin emotion cards and have students guess what emotion they are and what zone they are in. Ask students what parts of the face helped you decide what emotion it is? Point out eyebrows, eyes, mouth, cheeks and how we use those to help us understand how others are feeling.
Have students draw their own pumpkin faces for each zones.
4 Heart: I was careful with this lesson to not reference the well-known holiday. I talked about fall for the use of pumpkin shapes because it is funner then drawing on circles. The students quickly picked up on the idea of sorting feelings into the four Zones of Regulation. My talented daughter drew the faces on the pumpkins.