Teaching young children about emotions helps them to have a healthy relationship with how they feel and encourages them to look at feelings in an optimistic way whether it is anger, grief or joy. Understanding how we feel and to be able toexpress our feelings appropriately is the basis of good mental health and that's why teaching about feelings should be considered the most important thing.
My thoroughly researched pack of activities and resources will help you to teach children identify, label and communicate their feelings.The well laid out information will help you to work on the skill consciously and the suggested activities can be used at any time of the day. Our adorable mascot, Skipper, the Penguin will make learning fun and interesting.
Emotions
It includes the following:
- 3 book suggestions
- Questions to ask children when discussing the skill
- 5 activity suggestions along with resources to build the child's emotional intelligence
- Two books on feelings (two differentiated levels)
- A song chart with puppets to teach about feelings
- Real and fictional pictures of people exhibiting emotions
- A student handbook that includes an assessment sheet and 4 practice sheets (2 differentiated levels) that can be done at school and home
- A letter for parents, explaining the skill and suggestions on how they can work on the mentioned skill at home
This unit is part of the SEL program, Social Slate that I have conceptualized and created for young learners. The program lays a strong foundation to build social and emotional skills in children. It aims at helping children to understand and express emotions, resolve social conflicts and develop self-awareness. I have referred to the research work by CASEL while creating this program. The program consists of 12 units that help teachers and parents to lay the right foundation in formative years of children so that they can enjoy a successful & rewarding personal / professional life as adults.
