During the past 2 weeks, I began visiting our 3rd grade classroom for their fall developmental guidance lessons. Our fall unit will focus on emotions - identifying them, controlling how we feel, and communicating our feelings. Third graders learned a new way to identify how they feel through emotion zones. Emotion zones are based off two questions - Do I have a positive feeling or a negative feelings? Is my energy level high or low? These questions lead us to one of 4 zones - high positive, high negative, low positive, and low negative. Emotions zones help us understand how our bodies move and our voices sound when we experience different feelings. They also help us explain our mixed emotions - feeling frustrated and stressed may both be represented in high energy, negative feeling zone. We explored each zone by watching some clips from Finding Nemo, and talking about how we knew what the characters felt. Next week we will focus on making choices to move between the zones so our behavior is appropriate for different settings.
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