In My Heart – Back-to-School SEL Lesson
- Grades
- K–2
- Pages
- 14
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Topic
- In My Heart, Feelings
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
This resource bundle is a great book companion for “In My Heart" by Jo Witek or can be used on its own. The activities use the heart as a symbol for feelings and invite children to name and express emotions. This is great for targeting emotional literacy, identifying feelings and expressing emotions.
Included Activities:
- Pieces of My Heart (puzzle activity)
- In My Heart I Feel A Lot (mini fold-able book)
- Today My Heart Feels (mood meter poster)
- My Heart is Full of Feelings (7 page flip book project)
The flip books make awesome bulletin board displays! I like to work on one feeling at a time since it can be a lengthy project. I choose different books to go with the feeling of the day. The feelings included in the book are excited, proud, scared, sad, mad and happy. The sheets have lines for listing or writing full sentences as well as a blank space on top for drawings. These can be stapled or you can insert a spinner.
The resources I create are great for classroom teachers, school counselors, speech and language pathologists, special education teachers, and for anyone who wants to teach their child/student/patient to identify and cope with different emotions.
xo,
Ash
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify and name a range of emotions, including excited, proud, scared, sad, mad, and happy.
Express personal experiences of an emotion through both drawing and short writing.
Reflect on and report a current feeling using a mood-meter check-in format.
Teaching tips
If pairing the activities with In My Heart by Jo Witek, read the book aloud first. The creator also allows independent use.
Work on one feeling from the flip book at a time rather than assigning the whole seven-page project in one sitting, as the creator suggests.
Choose a different flip-book feeling page to match a "feeling of the day" theme across the week.
Skills covered
Emotional identification — students name and distinguish feelings such as excited, proud, scared, sad, mad, and happy.
Emotional expression through writing and drawing — students record personal examples of a feeling in a blank drawing space and on lined writing space.
Self-reflection and check-in — students use the mood-meter page to report their current emotional state.
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Social-emotional learning
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Feelings identification
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