emotional
literacy
Teachers! The purpose of this page:
To strengthen emotional regulation across all yer levels.
WHY: Emotional regulation takes a lot of practice. This is a page that strengthens one element of it which is emotional literacy.
How to use this page:
Print or display a different activity to do with your students once a week.
Increase the difficulty as students develop and improve their skills.
Daily Check-In - all stages
Feelings like the weather come and go.
When kids are having BIG and uncomfortable feelings they can be magnified if kids feel as though they are stuck in them.
Invite your students to start noticing their feelings, what name and colour would they give them?
A bit of distance between how we feel and respond is a fantastic practice to start now and strengthen throughout life.
Record the colour of the octopus that most suits how you are feeling today. Can you give your feeling a name? Pop a weather symbol in there too. This will remind you, that feelings change, just like the weather. Keep track of how you are feeling each day.
Warm up with Guess the Feeling - all stages
Just images of Flower Dude feeling a range of emotions - click here and guess each emotion. Turn this into family charades.
Time: 5 minutes
Age: 3 -12
I am thinking of a feeling: Stage 1 - Stage 3
Click the button above to open the source presentation
Time: 5 minutes
Ages: 6-12
Download and print feeling sheets
In pairs, students can guess the feeling e.g. I am thinking of a feeling, you might feel like this when you don't get your way.
You could give each student a copy and invite them to record how they are feeling each morning/afternoon.
