Matching Emojis with Emotions – SEL Activity
- Grades
- Grades 1–6, Elementary, Middle School
- Pages
- 4
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Life Studies, Special Resources, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Topic
- Emotions, learning
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Matching Emojis with Emotions is a three-page social-emotional learning worksheet for grades 1 to 5. In Part 1, students study 12 drawn emoji faces and write each face's number beside its feeling word, from happy and calm to confused, bored and worried. A Face clues tip reminds them to check the eyebrows, the eyes and the mouth.
The later parts stretch feeling vocabulary in different ways. Students read clues like "heart eyes and a soft, sweet smile" and pick the matching word, choose the face that fits each of four short stories, rank feeling words from smallest to biggest, and draw a shy face with a clue. A How do I feel today? check-in closes the worksheet, with a face to mark and an "I feel ... because" sentence to finish.
On the answer key, each match appears with the clue that gives the face away, plus answers for the clue, story and ranking parts. Use the color copy or the black-and-white print file, depending on your printer.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify a feeling from the eyebrows, eyes and mouth of an emoji-style face.
Connect a written description of facial clues to the feeling word it shows.
Choose the feeling that best fits a short everyday situation and explain the choice.
Teaching tips
Before Part 1, model the Face clues tip on one face, naming what the eyebrows, eyes and mouth are doing.
Try the key's partner idea after Part 2: partners take turns making a clue face for the other to name.
In Part 3, ask students who check a different face to explain why; the key accepts a good reason from the story.
Skills covered
Reading facial expressions: students use eyebrows, eyes, mouth shape and extra marks like a tear or "z z" to tell feelings apart.
Feeling vocabulary: students match words from basic ones like happy and sad to subtler ones like embarrassed and proud.
Applying feelings to situations: students decide which face fits a story, such as thunder booming as the lights go out.
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How many faces do students match?
Part 1 has 12 numbered faces and 12 feeling words. Later parts add more feelings through clues, stories and a drawing task.
Is there an answer key?
Yes. The key page lists every face number with what gives it away, plus answers for the clue, story and ranking parts and guidance for the drawing and check-in.
Does it work for younger students?
Yes. The faces and number boxes are large, and the directions are short. Some first graders may need the Part 3 stories read aloud.
Can it be used as a daily check-in?
Part 6, How do I feel today?, has six faces to choose from and lines to finish an "I feel ... because" sentence.
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