My+Feelings+Book

My Feelings Book**Submitted/Created By:** Cynthia Miller


 * Resources:** Scholastic Professional Book: Easy Activities for Building Social Skills

3D Student can read social cues. (I care about how I perceive others and how they perceive me.)
 * Standards:** 1A Student demonstrates awareness of their emotions. (I am aware of what I am feeling.)


 * Materials:** mirror, paper, crayons


 * Time:** 30 minutes


 * Goals:** Students to be aware of their own feelings and other’s feelings

~ Teacher has a big smile on her/his face when the students open their eyes. ~ Teacher asks students how she is feeling. Happy is the answer. ~ Repeat first two steps looking sad and then mad. ~ Invite children to take turns looking happy, sad and mad. ~ Teacher provides a mirror and encourages children to view him/herself. Ask others in the class how each child is feeling and how can they tell. ~ Talk together about the ways people’s faces often say what they are feeling. ~ Teacher uses her/his face and the rest of her/his body to show excitement, scared, happy, sad and mad. ~ Ask students to describe the actions that show the feelings. ~ Students will have two ways to observe how people are feeling...the face and the body. ~ Play a game with the children. Have students stand up. Have students show how they would use their face and body to show: Playing a game and lost a turn. Get a favorite toy for a birthday gift. Don’t feel well and have to miss a friend’s birthday party.
 * Describe lesson:** ~ Students close eyes and count to three.

~ Hand out paper for the students to fill in the blanks I feel happy when....... ~ The assignment can be repeated for I feel sad when.... I feel mad when..... Pages can be made into a book.

Each partner gets a turn to make faces that represent happy, sad and mad. Student can also do body language to go along with the feelings. The partner guesses the feeling.
 * Assessment:** Have students work with partners.