Kindergarten students wrapped up their lessons with me by learning to categorize big and little feelings. An important component of emotional identification and regulation is noticing when we start to experience a feeling, so that we can make an appropriate choice to regulate that emotion while we still have control. "Big" feelings are more challenging to regulate in that they take longer to process. We used our knowledge of happy, sad, and mad, to learn about the emotions excited, quiet, and frustrated. We role played each emotion with its pair to compare them and decide which felt bigger and which felt smaller. Students were also introduced to the emotions nervous and terrified, as well as tired and exhausted. They used emotion flash cards to play a guessing game with partners. This allowed them the chance to role play the feeling, and practice identifying feelings in others. Ask your student to show you some of the feelings they know! Invite them to talk about how their body feels and face looks when they have this feeling. Play a guessing game to see if you can name each others emotions.
Looking forward to working on these skills and more with our kindergarten students later on this year!
Looking forward to working on these skills and more with our kindergarten students later on this year!