For K-2 students
Overview of the Activity “Fishing for Feelings.”
This activity is designed to help students acquire attitudes, knowledge, and skills that will contribute to effective learning in school and throughout the students’ lives. This activity will also help students understand the relationship of academics to the world of work, life at home, and within the community. Fishing for Feelings activity will also help students gain understanding with interpersonal skills and respecting themselves and others. A major outcome of this lesson is to identify and express feelings.
MATERIALS/RESOURCES: (prep time 15 minutes)
The book, A to Z Do You Ever Feel Like Me? By Bonnie Hausman and Sandi Fellman. (You could do this lesson without the book.)
Envelope or glass fish bowl.
Pre cut cards with one feeling word on each card.
ACTIVITY: (20-25 minutes)
If you use the book, each page has a letter of the alphabet with a story. At the end of each story it says I feel so __________. Students guess
the word that fits in the blank. There is a picture that expresses the feeling word. If you don’t have the book, use pictures from magazines, draw them or use patterns from the internet. The A to Z words are in the back of the book, but the following is a feeling word for each letter of the alphabet. The feeling words: angry, brave, confused, delighted, embarrassed, friendly, greedy, happy, impatient, jealous, kind, lonely, mischievous, nervous, overwhelmed, proud, queasy, rambunctious, scared, terrific, upset, vain, worried, exhausted, yucky, and zany.
Next, using a fish bowl or envelope with cards or cards shaped like fish. Have each student pick one word. Have students work in pairs to make their own story using a personal situation about one or more of the feeling words they drew. They may draw the story, write or do both. Have students volunteer to share their words and stories with the whole class.
Information/Comments/Follow- To extend vocabulary have students think, write and say other words that begin with each letter of the alphabet
If things don’t go as well as planned: School counselor may need to further engage students in a role playing activity if the students are unable to connect with the initial lesson. Sometimes students do have a difficult time identifying the word with an expressed feeling. Relate the feelings to things that have happened in the child’s life. Acting out the emotions could be a way to engage and connect those kinesthetic learners.
Follow up activities for the class: Have students to cut out pictures of people’s faces that show an emotion and make a collage of faces with identified emotions. *old magazines/newspapers would be needed for this portion*
I like this lesson because it really makes the student thank about the word "Feelings" and makes it proper to talk about them and why they are important.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a really neat guidance lesson. Students at all levels need to realize that feelings are natural. I think this lesson could easily be adapted for use by middle and high school students.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting lesson. I also believe that it could be adapted for older children.
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