Matching Emotions With Facial Expressions Worksheet

Students connect feeling words with illustrated facial expressions and compare their choices with the completed matching page.
Grades
Pre-K, Grades 1–2
Pages
4
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated May 31, 2023

Subject
Special Resources, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
Topic
Emotions, Facial Expressions
Resource types
Worksheets
Answer key
Included

Product description

From the author

This emotions matching worksheet is perfect to help first and second grade students who are beginning to learn emotions with facial expressions. Use as a morning meeting activity, individual session dive in, or even with a Push-In lesson! This matching activity uses a word bank that students can match each emotion to the character they feel is best portraying that emotion. Some of the emotions are trickier to identify, so an answer key is included! Students can also reflect when done on why they chose the specific character for the emotion!

BONUS

Using this resource in an activity binder for the student I have found to be super helpful! Students love to engage in fun matching activities, and while they engage, they get to continue their growth! I often will add this worksheet to a busy work binder that students can use during morning meeting or throughout the day when they have finished other lessons and have some extra time. This also is a great addition to any emotions based lesson!

Included in this product

  • One Emotions Matching Worksheet

  • Answer Key

Ideas for Use:

⭐Individual Lessons

⭐Push-In Lessons

⭐Group Lessons

⭐SEL Morning Meetings

⭐Busy Binders

⭐Addition to Emotions Packet

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Recognise the facial expression that goes with each of eight named emotions.

  • Connect emotion vocabulary (including less common words like disappointed and confused) to visual cues.

  • Self-check emotion matches against the completed solutions version.

Teaching tips

  • Have students name a time they felt one of the eight emotions after matching it, turning the sheet into a talking prompt.

  • Use the completed solutions version for independent self-checking so the sheet can run as a quiet station or busy-binder task.

  • Pair the trickier faces - disappointed, worried, and confused read similarly - and discuss what distinguishes them before students draw their lines.

Skills covered

  • Emotion recognition - students match eight emotion words to the character faces expressing them.

  • Feelings vocabulary - the sheet uses a wider emotional range than happy/sad, including disappointed, confused, and worried.

  • Self-monitoring - the 'see how many you can get correct' framing and the numbered solutions version let students check their own work.

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Which emotions are included?

The worksheet uses sad, happy, disappointed, worried, scared, confused, angry and tired faces with matching emotion words.

How can students check their matches?

Compare with the numbered solutions page and discuss the intended pairings. Learners may need help distinguishing similar expressions.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Emotion recognition

  • Facial expressions

  • Feelings vocabulary

  • Social-emotional learning

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