Lesson Plan #: AELP-WCP007
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):

• 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:

• Books

• Glad Monster Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings by Ed Emberly & Anne Miranda
• Make a Face: A Book With a Mirror by Henry & Amy Schwartz

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.