Today's Classroom Activities :

Feelings and Emotions

Words to Feelings
Perception Ask your students to talk about how some stories make them feel. Identify a number of books which your students have read, and ask them how the stories made them feel. Encourage them to give reasons for their responses. Call attention to the fact that other people may read the same book and have different feelings. Then read the poem below and have them write a description of their feelings as if they had read a story about a wicked witch.

Reading

by Leland B. Jacobs

I read about a pirate
Who sailed the stormy sea,
I read about a pioneer
and very brave was she.

I read about a giant
So big and gruff and strange;
Ia read about a cowboy
Who rode the open range.

I read about a wicked witch
Who cast an evil spell,
And that's the night I hid
my head
And didn't sleep so well.

How do I feel?
This lesson allows students to think about their feelings and the feelings of others. Also, how to solve problems without fighting.

Understanding Needs and Feelings
Students learn about needs and feelings, then write an ending to a story showing how a child deals with his or her needs and feelings.

Feelings
(happy, sad, silly, angry, scared)
A reading and writing lesson for individual small group instruction where students use personal experiences to describe five different feelings.

Angry words: What goes around comes around
This is a simple, concrete lesson to illustrate the power of anger to travel from one person to another and to linger in the environment even after the immediate emotion is gone. Strategies for coping with angry feelings are shared.