Feelings Choice Board

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The Feelings Choice Board

A high-performing educational tool, the Feelings Choice Board, is designed to help young students from Kindergarten to Grade 2 in understanding and managing potent emotions. Being a hands-on learning resource, this board presents a combination of six key feelings along with strategies that students can customize based on their individual experiences.

An effective visual teaching-aid

This teaching aid introduces young learners to the concept of recognizing intense feelings – whether it be frustration, sadness or joy – then provides fourteen pre-determined coping strategies. Its design allows students to draw their own solution methods as well; thereby fostering creativity and personalization in emotional learning.

A Comprehensive Learning Tool

Identify: One of the two interactive PDF pages features an elaborate representation of various emotions.

Cope: This page showcases several cooling-off options that can be matched with the respective emotions.

Analyze: The other worksheet includes provision for arranging choice squares – emphasizing connective learning through association of each emotion with specific calming techniques.

This board thus aids learners not just recognize but manage their distressing feelings positively too.

Niche Usage Across Educational Settings

Belonging to the Life Skills category under Special Resources by TeachSimple.com; our product proves handy across diverse educational settings—classroom group discussions, personal assignments and smaller study groups alike. Whether you’re a public school teacher keen on interweaving social-emotional learning (SEL) into your routine syllabus or a homeschooling parent scouting for effective emotional awareness tools; whether using as part of class curriculum or homework support – Feelings Choice Board emerges as a well-rounded teaching resource. Enli

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students will identify and name personal feelings from a bank of five emotion words.
Students will match each feeling to an appropriate coping strategy chosen from thirteen options.
Students will practice self-regulation by selecting and gluing three feeling-strategy pairs onto their own board.

Teaching tips

Pre-cut the feeling and strategy word banks for younger students who may struggle with the small text.
Model one example pairing (e.g., 'If I'm mad, I can take a break') before students choose their own three.
Revisit the completed board with students during a calm moment so the strategies feel familiar before an actual emotional moment arises.

Skills covered

Emotion identification — students choose 3 of 5 named feelings (sad, mad, scared, worried, lonely) to place on their board.
Coping-strategy selection — students match each chosen feeling to one of 13 printed strategies such as 'do a belly breath' or 'ask for help.'
Cut-and-paste fine-motor practice — students cut out feeling and strategy squares and glue them into the board's grid.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

emotional regulation
coping strategies
feelings identification

Topics

Feelings Emotions Coping strategies Social-emotional learning Personalization choice board

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