Children learn to name, express, recognise, and reflect on feelings through discussion, art, movement, observation, and role play. The week progresses from facial and bodily signs of emotion to strategies for handling strong feelings and recording personal experiences in a journal.
What children learn
- Name and discuss a range of feelings and emotions.
- Express and interpret feelings through facial expression, tone, and body language.
- Identify visible and internal physical signs connected with different emotions.
- Suggest ways to respond to and manage strong feelings.
- Reflect on experiences that produce comfortable or uncomfortable feelings.
Key activities
- Exploring Feelings and Emotions with a feelings chart and paper-plate masks
- Making Feeling Faces with cut-paper collage
- Expressing Feelings and Emotions through greetings and slate drawings
- Mapping physical and mental indicators of emotions on body outlines
- Managing Strong Feelings and Emotions with puppet scenarios and emotion-mask matching
- Making and presenting a Feelings Journal
You’ll need
feelings charts, flashcards and pictures, paper and chart paper, pencils, crayons and markers, paper plates and ice-cream sticks, glue and scissors, slates and chalk, puppets and emotion masks
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, Social Studies/Science, Creative Learning, English, Maths