A 5-day lesson plan focused on recognizing, expressing, and managing emotions. Through face collage, emotional role-play, calming yoga, cylinder/cone math, and feelings journals, children build self-regulation.
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