This adjectives describe feelings worksheet helps 1st graders match feeling words like happy, proud, and excited to picture-based sentences. Includes an answer key for easy checking—a fun, no-prep way to build emotion vocabulary.
These emotions flash cards help Kindergarten to 3rd Grade students name 18 feelings by reading children's faces. Fold-over cards show the face and the word. Answer key included.
This character emotions worksheet gives 1st graders an original poem about a nervous singer and the friend who cheers her on, plus a feeling word bank and two writing prompts. Answer key included for quick, no-prep practice.
This feeling words activity has 1st to 3rd graders read a story, match clue cards to feeling words, and practice naming how characters feel. An answer key is included.
This express your feelings character education activity helps K-2nd grade students name six feelings with bracelets, charades and talk cards, then speak in full sentences. Answer key included.
This Emotions Clip Art is a perfect addition to any bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you use in your classroom.
This So Sad Reading Comprehension Worksheet helps 1st grade readers follow a rainy-day story full of feeling words, with five questions and an answer key that turn a sad day into happy practice.
Using About Me Mobile Activity, students can create a mobile to introduce themselves and share important information about themselves at the beginning of a new school year!
Happy, sad, mad or glad? Let's talk feelings!
First graders learn that everyone has feelings and that all feelings are okay, but some choices are better than others. They grow their feelings vocabulary beyond happy and sad to words like proud, nervous, frustrated, excited and lonely. They practice reading faces and body language, both their own and their friends', and they learn simple ways to calm down, like taking deep "smell the flower, blow the candle" breaths. The click comes when a child says, "I feel frustrated because my tower fell," instead of knocking over a friend's.
Feelings lessons work best when they are daily, gentle and connected to real moments.
Hold up a feelings card and ask kids to name the emotion and copy the face. Then ask "When have you felt this way?" Matching words to faces builds the vocabulary kids need to talk about feelings instead of acting them out.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withEmotions Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Play a song about making mistakes when someone gets upset over an error. Kids learn that mistakes are part of learning. Singing it together takes the sting out and becomes a class-wide reset.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withOops I Made A Mistake SongSongsOpen it →During read-alouds, pause and ask how a character feels and what clue tells you. Follow up with a short page about characters' emotions. Thinking about characters first makes it easier for kids to think about themselves.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCharacter Emotions WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Easy activities that build kindness and self-awareness.
ActivitiesAdd a new feeling word each day and let kids act it out before it goes on the wall.
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ActivitiesMake a mobile showing things that make you happy, proud and calm.
Open About Me Mobile Activity →
ActivitiesUse art and words to express a feeling, then share it with a buddy.
Open Express Your Feelings Character Education Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Adjectives Describe Feelings Worksheet, Emotions Flash Cards and Oops I Made A Mistake Song.
Learning to name and manage feelings helps young children make friends, solve problems and focus in class. It is a key part of social-emotional learning.
Beyond happy, sad and mad, first graders can learn proud, scared, nervous, excited, frustrated, lonely, calm and surprised.
Stay calm yourself, name the feeling for them, and practice slow breaths together. Talk about what happened after they are calm, not during the big moment.
Yes! Picture books are a wonderful way to talk about feelings. Ask how characters feel and what they could do, which helps kids practice empathy.
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