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Nursery Week 10 — Feelings and Emotions

Skills & curriculum alignment
Skills & activity types:
  • fine motor
  • early numeracy
  • literacy / phonics
  • art
  • social-emotional
  • pre-writing
  • cognitive reasoning
  • tracing
  • writing
  • craft template
  • other

A comprehensive Nursery weekly lesson plan for Week 10 themed around Feelings and Emotions. Children explore happiness, sadness, anger, and fear, trace the letter Hh, and investigate triangles through crafts and puzzles.

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

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