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Big Small Feelings - Lesson Plan 1 - My Feelings

This lesson plan teaches students about different feelings. Students will learn to identify feelings, draw what feelings look like, and play a memory game matching animals to feelings. The plan includes reading a book about feelings, a drawing activity, and a memory game to help students recognize and express their own feelings.

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Big Small Feelings - Lesson Plan 1 - My Feelings

This lesson plan teaches students about different feelings. Students will learn to identify feelings, draw what feelings look like, and play a memory game matching animals to feelings. The plan includes reading a book about feelings, a drawing activity, and a memory game to help students recognize and express their own feelings.

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Social Emotional Learning Unit

Big & Small Feelings Grades K-2

Lesson Plan 1: My Feelings

Feelings are a significant part of life, whether those feelings feel big or small. In this lesson, students
will learn about some of the different kinds of feelings they encounter and learn how to identify
those feelings in themselves.

Purpose To teach students about different feelings.

Learning Outcomes It is expected that students will:

• Recognize that there are lots of different feelings.


• Identify what each feeling feels like.
• Demonstrate the ability to recognize and identify different
feelings.

Prep Time 10 min


Duration of Lesson 40 min (+ Optional Extension Activity 15 min)

Materials Required • Feelings by Libby Walden


• Drawing My Feelings (Printable)
• Crayons or Pencil Crayons
• Animal Feelings Memory Game (Printable)

Lesson Plan Overview: Length Priority


Activate Feelings Read Aloud 10 min ★★
Acquire Do: Drawing My Feelings 15 min ★★★
Apply Play: Animal Feelings Memory Game 15 min ★
Extension Activities Create: Paint to Music 15 min
Key Terms
Feelings The physical sensations associated with emotions

*NB: We recognize that there is a semantic difference between “feelings” and “emotions”, but for
the sake of this grade level we will use these words interchangeably.

If time is limited, feel free to shorten or omit lower priority sections.

Lesson Plan 1: My Feelings


Lesson Plan 1: My Feelings

ACTIVATE: Feelings by Libby Walden Read Aloud (10 min)

• Read aloud the book Feelings by Libby Walden (Or you can watch a reading
of the book on YouTube)
• Then ask the following comprehension and connection questions.

1. The book talked about 10 different feelings. Can you remember


what those feelings were? (Answer: Brave, sad, angry, happy, jealous, alone,
embarrassed, excited, afraid and calm.)

2. What does it mean to be brave? (Possible Answer: Doing things even though you are
scared.)

3. What is it like to be sad? (Possible Answer: Covered in a heavy feeling.)

4. How do you feel when you are angry? (Possible Answer: Like I want to explode.)

5. What things make you feel happy? (Answer will vary.)

6. When do you feel jealous? (Possible Answer: When someone has what you want.)

7. Being alone can be sad and is also called being lonely. Can you think of a time that you
were lonely? (Answers will vary.)

8. How does your body feel when you are embarrassed? (Possible Answer: Hot, heart
pounding, arm face, etc.)

9. When was the last time you felt excited about something? (Answer will vary.)

10. How does your body feel when you are afraid? (Possible Answers: my heart beats fast, I
want to run away, I get shivers, etc.)

11. What do you think of when you think about being calm? (Answer will vary.)

ACQUIRE: Drawing My Feelings (15 min)

• Hand out the Drawing My Feelings Printable to each student with some crayons or pencil
crayons.

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• Keep one for yourself to do along with the students.

• Go over each feeling one by one and have students draw what they think that feeling would
look like.
• Gives students a minute or two to draw each feeling.
• Prompt students with questions like:
o What colour does this feeling make you think of?
o Would the lines be straight or curly or spiky?

• When you have gone through each feeling, share your drawings with the students and then
have students share their drawings with a partner and compare how each of them drew each
feeling.
• Have them discuss with their partners how their drawings are similar and different.

APPLY: Animal Feelings Memory Game (15 min)

• Have students work with partners to create their own memory game.
• Hand out the Animal Feelings Memory Game Printable and crayons or pencil crayons to
each pair of students.

• Go over all the different feelings in the game and ask students what animal they think best
represents that feeling and let them share their ideas.
• Then explain that in their partners, students will choose one animal to draw for each feeling
• Explain that each student draws the same animal for the same feelings as their partner, so
they will have two of each animal when they are finished.

• Then they will cut out each one and flip them over and play an animal feelings memory game
with their partner.

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY: Paint to Music

• Hand out a paper and some paints and paint brushes to each student (this can also be done
with crayons, pencil crayons or markers).
• Play any song for the class (preferably one that will make students feel one of the feelings
talked about in the lesson)

Lesson Plan 1: My Feelings


o For example: a classical song that is happy or calm

• Have students paint (or draw) what they feel as they listen to the song.
• Play the song a few times so that students can have more time to paint (or draw) what they
are feeling.
• When they are finished, have students share their paintings (or drawings) with the class.

• Point out that each student feels the song a little differently and expresses their feelings in
their painting (or drawing) differently too.
• Remind students that how we feel things makes us different and special.

Lesson Plan 1: My Feelings

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