Identify+and+Manage+Feelings

Clare Morrison, Grade 2 & 3 Lesson: Identifying and Managing Feelings Standard(s): 1a, 2a Materials: Books: Dr. Seuss’s __My Many Colored Days__ __The Blue Day Book for Kids: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up__ By Bradley Trevor Greive A gingerbread man outline of a body on one half of an 8.5in x 11in paper –landscape- with lines for writing on the other half. A heart with lines for writing on light blue paper. Time: 2 x 30/45 minute lessons Goals: Student can identify and manage feelings in constructive ways. Describe Lesson Steps: This lesson can be used as an extension to the Connected and Respected “Feelings” lesson or as a first lesson introduction and extension to discussing feelings and self-management of feelings. Lesson 1: Brainstorm feeling words – make a list or word web on chart paper. Continue to add to the list as students learn about other feelings associated with happy, sad, etc. Read aloud Dr. Seuss’s __My Many Colored Days__. Discuss and add feelings to the chart paper. Students Think, Pair, Share (Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategy) how they feel today. Activity/Assessment(s): Students color the body shape a color to represent how they are feeling and write about it. Lesson 2: Read aloud the title of the book __The Blue Day Book for Kids: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Up__. Discuss “A Blue Day.” //What might a blue day look like, feel like, sound like?// //How might your heart feel?// Ask students if they have ever had a blue day. //Can you describe it?// Read aloud the book. Discuss and ask questions etc. while reading. Ask if students have a text-to-self connection. Add feeling words to the chart paper as necessary. //What do you do to cheer yourself up or “change the color of your day?”// //What are some positive ways / strategies you could use to cheer yourself up or remove yourself from the situation?// Brainstorm and record these strategies on chart paper. Recommend referring to the chart paper in future. After reading, have students Think, Pair, Share their own “blue day” and a strategy for cheering themselves up. Activity/Assessment(s): Students write about feeling blue / their own blue day on the blue heart.