Today I Feel...Check-In Sheet

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The Today I Feel... Check-In Sheet

The Today I Feel... Check-In Sheet is an insightful and practical tool. It offers a unique approach to understanding students' emotional well-being. This resource is specifically aimed at Kindergarten, Preschool, Grade 1, Grade 2, and Grade 3 educators who prioritize emotional intelligence within their classrooms.

Promoting Self-Awareness Among Students

The check-in sheet provides a medium for learners to effectively communicate and understand their feelings. Children learn how to identify not only the types of emotions they are experiencing but also the intensity level of each feeling. This helps students better comprehend their emotional landscape.

Aligning Educators with Students Inner World

This check-in sheet aids in attuning educators and guardians with a student's internal state of mind. Acknowledging how students feel allows teachers or counselors to respond appropriately based on each individual student's needs.

Functionality:

This PDF worksheet can be easily incorporated into different teaching methodologies.
It can seamlessly be implemented during whole class discussions about emotions— fostering empathy by sharing common experiences or integrating it into small group activities for peer interaction exercises.
The worksheet is also ideal as part of take-home assignments where parents can participate in this process too.

Serving Multiple Purposes:

The Today I Feel....Check-In Sheet is more than just an informative document; it serves as crucial tools cultivating long-term life skills amongst young learners—emphasizing honest expression paired with deeper understanding of emotions.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Name a current feeling by choosing one or more faces that match it
Show how strong that feeling is by colouring a thermometer, rather than treating a feeling as present or absent
Give a reason for the feeling, in a drawing or in words

Teaching tips

The three steps run in a fixed order, so the sheet can stop after the faces for a quick morning check or run through to the reason for a longer conversation
"Circle the feeling face(s)" carries a plural in brackets, which makes more than one answer legitimate and gives mixed feelings somewhere to go
The thermometer is coloured rather than numbered, so a child can show intensity without needing a scale to read
"Draw or write" keeps the last box open to pre-writers, which matters when the same sheet is used across a mixed-age group or with a child who is upset and not ready to write

Skills covered

Emotion identification - the student picks one or more faces to say how they feel that day.
Rating intensity - colouring the thermometer turns the chosen feeling into a degree rather than a simple yes or no.
Giving a reason - the "Because..." section asks for the cause behind the feeling, accepted as either a drawing or writing.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Can a student choose more than one face?

Yes - the instruction is written "Circle the feeling face(s)", with the plural in brackets, so circling two or more is an intended answer rather than a mistake.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

Emotion identification
Self-reflection

Topics

emotional well-being self-awareness check-in sheet empathy life skills

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Life Skills Worksheets 1st Grade Worksheets 2nd Grade Worksheets 3rd Grade Worksheets Elementary Worksheets Kindergarten Worksheets

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