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Feelings and Emotions Game

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Lesson Plan

Feelings and Emotions Game

Communicate feelings effectively

This lesson is designed to help a first-grade student communicate her feelings and understand questions through interactive and collaborative activities. By engaging in a guessing game and discussing emotions, the student will develop better comprehension and expression skills. This lesson is crucial for building her confidence in expressing emotions and understanding others, which are essential skills for her social and emotional development.

Audience

One first grade girl

Time

30 minutes

Approach

Game-Based Learning, Collaborative Learning

Materials

Guess the Feelings and Emotions Video, Emotion Cards, Whiteboard and Markers, and Printable Emotion Faces

Step 1

Introduction

5 mins

  • Begin by welcoming the student and explaining the importance of understanding and expressing feelings.
  • Introduce the concept of emotions and how they can be communicated.

Step 2

Video Viewing

6 mins

  • Watch the Guess the Feelings and Emotions video together.
  • Pause after each emotion to discuss what the student thinks the emotion is and when she might feel that way.

Step 3

Emotion Discussion

7 mins

  • Use emotion cards to discuss different feelings.
  • Ask the student to pick a card and describe a time she felt that way.
  • Encourage her to use words and expressions to communicate her feelings.

Step 4

Collaborative Emotion Game

10 mins

  • Play a game where the student picks an emotion card and acts it out while you guess the emotion.
  • Switch roles and let her guess the emotions you act out.
  • Use the whiteboard to draw faces representing different emotions and discuss them.

Step 5

Closure

2 mins

  • Recap the emotions learned and discuss how understanding feelings can help in daily life.
  • Encourage the student to practice expressing her feelings at home.
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Worksheet

Emotion Cards

These cards are used to help the student identify and express different emotions during the lesson.




Happy







Sad







Angry







Excited







Confused







Scared







Proud







Surprised







Tired




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