Lesson 4: Emotions
Essential Question: What are emotions? What do emotions look and sound like?
Lesson Overview
1. Brain Warmup
2. Read Aloud
3. Modeling Activity
4. Group Activity
6. Brain Cooldown
Purpose:
- By learning about emotions, students can transfer the skill of identifying the emotions into real life situations.
Vocabulary:
- common emotions (happy, sad, mad, worried, etc.)
Additional Book
There are No Animals in This Book! (Only Feelings) by Chani Sanchez
- This story focuses on what emotions sound like. The author includes words and pictures to describe the emotions.
Click on book for video of read aloud
Additional Lesson
Activities
Inside Out Emotion Game
- This article features a variety of games revolving around emotions incorporating the movie Inside Out. Games include Emotion Matching, Pick the Emotion, and Go "Inside Out". The article includes free printable materials for all games.
- See resources for link to article
Additional Resources
- Link to emotion games.
- This chart can be used during Emotions 101 to brainstorm what emotions look and sound like.
- This article describes the materials needed for 'Emotion Eggs'. Also included in the article are various activities and modifications that can be done during the 'Emotion Eggs' activity.
- This checklist can be used during the 'Emotion Egg' activity.
- This article includes picture books and activities to teach feelings and emotions.
Brain Warmup: Daily Discussion
Purpose: Lesson 2 and 3 teach skills relating to daily conversations. This brain warmup allows students to practice the conversation skills learned in the previous lessons with a partner.
Materials: conversation map
Time: 5 minutes
Procedure:
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Partner students up with another student in the classroom
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The pairs of students will engage in a conversation
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Allow students to use their conversation map from Lesson 3
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The discussion should be between 3 and 5 minutes
Note: If students are struggling to find topics to discuss, a list of ideas can be written for the students to reference. Ideas for discussions can be sports, animals, weather, cars, school, family, and movies.
Read Aloud: My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Before reading the story, ask students “what are feelings or emotions?” Allow students wait time to brainstorm ideas. A web diagram can be created to display all the ideas of what feelings and emotions are.
This read aloud will touch on the basic emotions and associate the emotions with colors. Following the story, discuss what emotions are. Use the following discussion questions to guide the conversation.
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What are emotions?
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Can you identify any emotions from the story?
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Have you ever been happy, sad, mad, or tired? If so, when?
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Why did Dr. Seuss use colors to describe the emotions?
Modeling Activity: Emotions 101
Purpose: This activity is a conversation continuing from the story. The students will explore more emotions and discuss what emotions look and sound like.
Materials: chart paper or poster paper, emotion check list, Emotion Eggs
Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Procedure:
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Create a ‘Looks and Sounds Like’ Chart (reference resources for an example of a ‘Looks and Sounds Like’ Chart)
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Begin with one emotion
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Example: Happy
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Ask the students, “what does happy look like? Allow students time to brainstorm a response. If students are having difficulty describing what happy looks like, ask students prompting questions like…
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What do you do when you are happy?
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What does someone else do when they are happy?
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Why might someone be happy?
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Ask students, “what does happy sound like? Allow students time to brainstorm a response. If students are having difficulty describing what happy looks like, ask students prompting questions like…
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What do you say when you are happy?
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What does someone else say when they are happy?
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Continue this process for rest of the common emotions
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Sad, mad, worried, surprised, excited, tired, frustrated, scared
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After all emotions are described, allow students time to explore the emotions used the ‘Emotion Eggs’. The ‘Emotion Eggs’ are Easter eggs with eyes on the top part and a mouth on the bottom part.
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The students will use their check list to create all the emotions using the ‘Emotion Eggs’
Note: Refer to the ‘Emotion Egg’ Description in the resources for additional instruction on how to create the eggs.
Group Activity: What's the Emotion?
Purpose: This activity allows students to practice showing the emotions and familiarizes the students with various emotions.
Materials: Emoji Emotion Cards
Time: 5 to 10 minutes
Procedure:
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Students will sit on the carpet or open floor space facing the teacher
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The teacher will use the Emoji Emotion Cards. Each card has an Emoji face showing an emotion
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The teacher will show the students one card and say the emotion. Students will use their face to create the emotion being shown and said.
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This process will continue until all Emoji Emotion Cards have been shown.
Brain Cooldown: Sesame Street Feeling Song
Purpose: By seeing and hearing emotions, students will be able to transfer the knowledge learned about emotions to real life situations. The song provides the students with a catchy tune about emotions.
Materials: Sesame Street Feeling Song (see resources for link)
Time: 5 minutes
Procedure:
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Students will sit on the carpet or open floor space facing a computer or technology board.
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Play the feeling song and instruct students to listen to the song first.
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Play the song again but encourage students to sing along.
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After hearing the song two times, ask the students “what emotions did you hear in the song?”
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Discuss and identify the emotions being described in the song.
