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August 29th, 2018

8/29/2018

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Feelings - Kindergarten

7/3/2017

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This lesson is similar to the 1st - 2nd grade lesson but with it simplified to the four main feelings.
​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.
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October feelings with zones (1-2)

7/3/2017

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​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
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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.
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Feelings with friends (1st - 2nd grade)

6/28/2017

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This is a simple group about emotions and coping skills.  I used it with the primary grades. It was a great way to help students who need a little extra support with emotional regulation. I focused each week on one emotion and a coping skill to go with it. I define the term Coping Skill as any tip, trick, or tool that you use to safely help you calm down that doesn't hurt you, others, or property.
What is Feelings with Friends
  1. Talk about the purpose of group
  2. Establish group rules
  3. Watch Boundin’ the Disney/Pixar short
    1. Talk about the emotions that the sheep felt at different points in time
Learn about the variety of emotions
  1. The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
  2. Create a Feel Wheel (Creative Therapy p. 31) [make a giant feelings wheel with kids drawing facial expressions in each emotion]
    1. Feel Wheel with clothes pin will be used to check our emotions when we come into group
Managing Our Anger
  1. Howard B Wigglebottom Learns It Is Okay to Back Away
  2. Talk about how and where we feel our mads 
    1. ​Flip Chart - draw a person outline 
    2. Color and draw what the kids say on the person outline
  3. Coping Skills - Breathing: Birthday Cake or Hot Cocoa breathing
Managing Our Sads
  1. I Feel Sad by Brian Moses and Mike Gordon
  2. Talk about our sads
  3. Coping Skill - Get Moving - Dance Party (GoNoodle)
  4. Visualization using the 5 senses of a happy memory
Managing Being Afraid
  1. Don’t be Afraid to Drop by Julia Cook
  2. Talk about our fears
  3. Coping Skill - Problem Solving Skills (reframe, do something different, remember exceptions, and magic question)
Managing Our Worry
  1. Wemberly Worried
  2. Talk about how we feel our worries
  3. Coping Skill - Progressive Muscle Relaxation or make worry Stones
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