This is one cross-curricular activity in our project. The objectives are:
- To help children to recognize their emotions.
- To give tools for the emotion awareness and how they can change, emotions are not static.
- To give information to the teachers about children’s mood, their reasons and to help them when it would be needed.
The activity starts watching videos related to the topic or explaining tales that show the emotions. Here you are some examples:
- Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsFERoAz448
- The book “The colour monster” by Anna Llenas:
Every time children identify the emotion in the tale or the video, they will describe own situations they feel the same. In that way, there will be a dialogue between pupils each other and teachers.
Then, the teacher shows the emotions to be worked. Elder pupils can work more emotions.
Just to start:
Joy Sadness
Anger Fear
The younger children will have a corner in the class with the faces and they will take the face they want to put on the table.
The elder ones have their own faces which could be made by themselves. In a corner of the table, they have a space to put the face that represents the emotion they feel in that moment. They do that when they arrive in the morning but they can change face if their moods change during the day.
It is a very useful activity for the students and for the teachers. Taking a quick look at the children tables, teachers can see how they feel. In addition, they can also see if a student feels “sad,” “angry” or “scared” for too long and find out why the student feels in that way and act according to what is needed.