Students Play While Studying With This Free “Emotional Aspects” Lesson.

When you are happy, you may feel your smile getting wider than before. If you are afraid, you may feel your stomach jump. But students don’t always know how to name their feelings, let alone identify how their body expresses those feelings. With the right activities, you can help children begin to learn to identify their emotions while having fun. Emotional awareness is very important, especially for young students. Check out this free lesson on Emotions, complete with an All About Me Face printable, to incorporate this type of learning into your classroom.

Activities to Stay Involved

Get your students involved in this activity by giving them time to play in groups with small bean bags, sensory bottles, or play dough. From here, you can join them and watch their gameplay. Which of these do they use?

• Constructive play
• Games with rules
• Playing with your imagination

Regardless of how they play, printables will help you connect their games and feelings with questions like “When someone takes advantage of you, how does that make you feel?” or “Can you show me how you feel when it’s not your time?”

You’ll have lesson scripts ready to go as you integrate them into play. Help them find out more about how they feel their emotions in their body or how they can understand a friend’s emotions based on facial expressions.

All About Me Face Workmat

With this lesson, you will have the opportunity to print an All About Me Face activity mat, where students can draw or use the dough to make different facial expressions throughout the lesson.

You could have students join in and show their friend’s speech on a piece of paper, or ask them to make the faces they make when they feel a certain way!

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