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Feelings and Faces

Lesson Plan

Feelings and Faces

Identify and express emotions

Students will learn to identify and express their emotions using facial expressions and body language. This lesson is important as it helps young learners develop emotional intelligence and communication skills, which are crucial for their social development.

Audience

Kindergarten Students

Time

45 mins

Approach

Identify and express emotions

Materials

Emotion flashcards, Mirror, Paper and crayons, and Feelings worksheet

Step 1

Introduction

5 mins

  • Gather students in a circle.
  • Briefly explain that today we will learn about different feelings and how to express them using our faces and bodies.
  • Ask students if they can name some feelings and how they might look when they feel that way.

Step 2

Emotion Charades

10 mins

  • Show the students the emotion flashcards one by one.
  • Pick a student volunteer to act out the emotion on the flashcard without using words while others guess the emotion.
  • Discuss each emotion and how it can be expressed through facial expressions and body language.

Step 3

Mirror Time

10 mins

  • Give each student a small mirror.
  • Call out different emotions (happy, sad, angry, surprised, etc.) and ask students to make faces that match each emotion while looking in the mirror.
  • Discuss how their faces change with each different emotion.

Step 4

Drawing Emotions

10 mins

  • Hand out paper and crayons to each student.
  • Ask students to draw faces showing different emotions (e.g., happy, sad, angry, etc.)
  • Allow students to share and explain their drawings with the class.

Step 5

Worksheet Activity

5 mins

  • Distribute the Feelings worksheet.
  • Guide students to complete the worksheet by identifying different emotions shown on faces and matching them with the correct labels.

Step 6

Closure

5 mins

  • Recap what was learned in the lesson.
  • Ask students to share one thing they learned about how to express emotions.
  • Praise students for their participation and effort.
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Discussion

Feelings Discussion

A discussion to help students articulate their understanding of emotions and how to identify them.

What are some ways we can tell how someone is feeling?

  • Encourage responses about facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice.
  • Validate all answers and provide examples.







Why is it important to understand how others are feeling?

  • Guide students to discuss empathy and relationship building.
  • Mention how understanding feelings can help us be better friends.







How can we express our own feelings to others?

  • Talk about using words and showing emotions through faces and actions.
  • Reinforce the importance of communicating feelings.







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Worksheet

Feelings Worksheet

A worksheet to help students practice identifying and labeling different emotions.

Look at the faces below and match them with the correct emotion: Happy, Sad, Angry, Surprised.

  • Draw lines connecting faces to the emotion labels.
  • Encourage students to think about what each emotion looks like.







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Worksheet

Emotion Flashcards

Flashcards showing different emotions to be used during the lesson for charades and discussion.




Happy







Sad







Angry







Surprised







Scared







Confused







Excited







Tired







Bored







Nervous




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