Children name and represent several emotions, connecting them to stories, facial expressions, body movements, and personal experiences. Emoticon art, an emotions wheel, letter Hh work, and varied triangle activities develop language for feelings alongside early literacy and shape learning.
What children learn
- Recognise happiness, sadness or disappointment, curiosity, and fear.
- Connect emotions with facial expressions, gestures, and everyday situations.
- Express and discuss what can cause different feelings.
- Recognise and write Hh and identify, construct, and represent triangles.
Key activities
- Making a happy-face emoticon artwork
- Exploring sadness and disappointment through discussion and art
- Using an emotions wheel to identify feelings
- Acting out emotion movements in an emotions workout
- Constructing triangles and practising triangle breathing
You’ll need
emotion pictures and an emotions wheel, circle cut-outs, paint and legumes, satin ribbon, paper plates and newspaper, triangle objects and cut-outs, twigs and loose parts, letter Hh cards, chalk and slate
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy