Lesson Plan #: AELP-WCP0073
Feelings
(happy, sad, silly, angry, scared)
An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Submitted by:
Marilyn P. Macharoni
Email:
macharoni.dayton@worldnet.att.net
School/University/Affiliation:
Shaw Elementary School, Beavercreek, Ohio
Date:
May 1, 2000
Grade Level(s):
1, 2
Subject(s):
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Language Arts/Writing (composition)
Duration:
Five 30-minute sessions
Description:
A reading and writing lesson for individual small group instruction where students use personal experiences to describe five different feelings.
Goals:
1. Improve listening skills.
2. Enhance oral and written language.
3. Describe and illustrate five different feelings through personal experiences.
Objectives: Students will:
1. compare personal experiences/knowledge with events in a story.
2. compose sentences from real life experiences.
3. express feelings and experiences clearly and concisely.
Materials:
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Books
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Glad Monster Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings by Ed Emberly & Anne Miranda
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Make a Face: A Book With a Mirror by Henry & Amy Schwartz
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one blank book per child containing a blank page for each feeling
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one small mirror per child
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a pencil for each child
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a variety of color markers or crayons for all children to use
Procedure:
1. Read each book to the class
2. List feelings: happy, sad, silly, angry, and scared.
3. Re-read each page about feeling happy.
4. Discuss feeling happy.
5. Individual students share a story about when, where and what makes them "feel happy" and demonstrate a "happy face."
6. Brainstorm other experiences which cause a happy feeling.
7. Repeat procedures 3 through 6 for each of the remaining feelings: sad, silly, angry, and scared.
8. Distribute individual blank books, small mirrors, pencils and markers/crayons.
9. Have students write and illustrate a sentence about a personal experience with each feeling.
Assessment:
Students will share their individual "Feelings Book" with their parents and other students. Their books will be put on display in the classroom.