Social and Emotional Learning Activities on Feelings

Easy and hard feelings anchor a feelings and emotions unit with teaching points, calm-corner signs, a coping-strategies spinner, sorting and matching worksheets and two emergent readers.
Grades
Preschool–Junior Kindergarten, Grades 1–2
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Updated Sep 18, 2026

Subject
Social Skills, Special Resources
Topic
Feelings, Emotions
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The Social Emotional Learning Unit: Feelings & Emotions Activities is a 33-page resource full of ideas, lessons and printables to teach students about feelings and emotions. You will receive a handout that includes teaching points, read-alouds, videos and extra activities. There is a letter to caregivers to support feelings and emotions at home. After learning about feelings and emotions, students will get to write about what they've learned and practice their reading skills with the emergent reader. There are posters that can be printed for display within a calm down corner as well as spinners for students to choose something they can do when they are mad or frustrated.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Match pictures of faces to feeling words such as surprised, sad, happy and angry

  • Sort feelings into easy and hard categories

  • Choose and draw a coping strategy for feeling frustrated, angry or sad

Teaching tips

  • The coping spinner wheel can be assembled with a brass fastener so the arrow turns.

Skills covered

  • Naming emotions — matching pictures to feeling words

  • Self-calming — practicing five-finger breathing and picking a strategy from the spinner

  • Expressing feelings to peers — using the bug and a wish sentence starter

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