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A very basic outline for a four-week unit on feelings for young learners, this resource suggests four activities to help learners explore their feelings. Learners spend the first week listing feelings. In week two, they pantomime these...

Students explore the role of workers and their jobs in the community. They write a friendly letter to a community worker expressing appreciation for the work they do and their importance to the community.

Students explore the importance of helping others. After reading a story about being helpful, students discuss times when they assisted others and then sing a song. In groups, students mime situations where they portray a good...

Self reflection is an important skill to reinforce in our children, and it's especially helpful to help them realize who they are in the context of their environment. A collection of lessons about self image and community encourage...

Meant to be used with the Dealing With Feelings video from the You Can Choose series, this lesson can also be adapted for use without this resource. This plan is aimed at showing young learners how to appropriately deal with their...

Practice using feelings as a way to reflect on past experiences. The poem The End and the text Tell Me a Story Mama are used to identify feeling words. As an extension, pupils participate in a service learning project and...

Young scholars explore how to manage angry feelings. In this behavior lesson, students discuss techniques to handle angry feelings, such as counting to ten and talking out the problem.

It isn't always easy to tell another person how we feel; and little ones have an even more difficult time identifying and expressing their emotions. They get a chance to discuss and explore how they can express how they feel in different...

Teaching during a pandemic has undoubtedly been stressful, and it has left many teachers feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious. For many teachers, these feelings have led to burnout and compassion fatigue, and for others the...

Students explore feeling about the natural world and how those feelings are being affected by human action. They write poetry after viewing images of swallows in action and listening to poetry about the birds.