Teaching Students to Name Feelings and Describe their Emotions | Session #1

Description

The uses for this teaching elementary students to name feelings and describe their emotions activity are endless. Whether you need an activity for the first day of school, want to enhance students’ emotional understanding, gauge students’ emotions, or as an icebreaker for small groups, this activity is for your students.

Help your elementary students learn the words needed to name their feelings and describe their emotions. This can be used as a stand-alone activity, or as part of a six-lesson describing and understanding emotions bundle.

Included in this Download:

Emotion Words Posters:
Teach each emotion (sad, uneasy, surprised, angry, disgusted, and happy) one at a time to your class or small group. Explain that there are many emotion words and descriptors for each emotion. The emotion words are difficult, your students probably have not encountered most of them. Challenge your students to uncover the meanings of the emotion words and how they could use the words to describe their emotions. Once you’ve reviewed an emotion, display the poster on the wall or board for students to use as a reference.

Chameleon Color Chart:
Use this as a quick guide/reference chart to review each emotion. This should be utilized when explaining directions for the worksheet.

Roll and Respond:
Two templates to help you get the conversation started.

Worksheet:
Complete worksheet with group.
Here are the worksheet directions:
1) Color the chameleons on the Chameleon Color Chart to create your own color guide.

2) Think of your current mood and emotions, what colors on the color guide match how you feel? Using the Chameleon Color Chart as a guide, color your chameleon based on your current emotions. You may use as many colors as you need to describe how you feel.

3) When finished coloring, look at the Emotion Words on the back of this page, choose three to six that describe how you’re feeling. Write them on your chameleon.

4) Complete the statements at the bottom of this page.

Two statement finishers are posed:

My chameleon is showing my feelings of __________________.

I feel this way because ________________________________.

Other Educators Like You Said:

Nola W. says, “This is an excellent resource to use when teaching about emotions, especially since students loved the Inside Out movie.” -⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Shawna H. says, “Valuable resource for helping children to understand their emotions.” -⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Caroline O. says, “Love the ease of use in this resource. Thank you” -⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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