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Self & Social Awareness Adventure

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Lesson Plan

Self & Social Awareness Adventure

Improve self and social awareness

This lesson is designed to help kindergarten students develop self-awareness and social awareness through engaging activities. By using experiential and game-based learning strategies, students will explore their emotions and learn to recognize and respect the feelings of others. This lesson is important as it lays the foundation for emotional intelligence, which is crucial for personal and social development.

Audience

Kindergarten social emotional small group

Time

30 minutes

Approach

Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Game-Based Learning

Materials

Video: Social Emotional Learning for Kids: I Am, Worksheet: My Feelings and Friends, Crayons, and Markers

Step 1

Introduction

5 mins

  • Welcome students and explain the focus of the lesson: understanding our own feelings and those of others.
  • Briefly discuss what emotions are and why they are important.

Step 2

Video Viewing

5 mins

Step 3

Discussion

5 mins

  • Discuss the video with the students.
  • Ask questions like: "What emotions did you see?" and "How do you feel when you are happy/sad?"
  • Encourage students to share their thoughts and feelings.

Step 4

Worksheet Activity

10 mins

  • Distribute the "My Feelings and Friends" worksheet.
  • Instruct students to draw or color faces that show different emotions.
  • Ask them to think about a time they felt each emotion and share with a partner.

Step 5

Closure

5 mins

  • Gather students and ask them to share one thing they learned about emotions today.
  • Reinforce the importance of recognizing and respecting emotions in themselves and others.
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Worksheet

My Feelings and Friends

This worksheet helps students identify and express different emotions. Students will draw or color faces to represent various feelings and think about times they experienced these emotions.

Draw a happy face and think about a time you felt happy.








Draw a sad face and think about a time you felt sad.








Draw an angry face and think about a time you felt angry.








Draw a surprised face and think about a time you felt surprised.








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