© 2015 Eve Coates In This Lesson We’ll Learn: • What emotions are • Different kinds of emotions • How to recognize how you’re feeling In the next lesson we’ll learn about how to deal with difficult emotions in healthy ways. Everyone has emotions! Emotions make us feel certain ways inside. Emotions are like clouds that pass by. They come, stay for a while, and then leave. SAD Sometimes they only stay for a little bit. Excited And sometimes they stay for a long time. But they are always coming, going, and changing. Emotions are just part of being human. EVERYONE has them! Some emotions we like to feel, and some we don’t. Lonely Happy Hopeful Excited Angry Frustrated Silly Jealous But even emotions that make us feel bad are normal and even healthy. Let’s learn about some of our different emotions! Click on the face below that fits with happy. Great job! You chose the right face! What kind of things make you happy? Make a face to show you’re happy. Click on the face below that fits with sad. That’s right! You chose the right face! What kind of things make you sad? Make a face to show you’re sad. Click on the face below that fits with mad. Good! You chose the right face! What kind of things make you mad? Make a face to show you’re mad. Click on the face below that fits with excited. You got it! What kind of things make you excited? Make a face to show you’re excited. Nervous Click on the face below that fits with nervous. Great job! Nervous What kind of things make you nervous? Nervous Make a face to show you’re nervous. Click on the face below that fits with silly. You’re right! What are some things you might do if you feel silly? What kind of things make you feel silly? Make a face to show you’re feeling silly. We talked about a few emotions, but there are many more. Can you think of any other emotions? Jealous ? Embarrassed ? Curious Proud ? Scared ? Shy ? Lonely ? Frustrated Bored ? ? ? Click the boxes to see more emotions. Did you guess any of the ones above? Let’s see if we can guess how someone might feel in certain situations. Read the story below, then click on how you think the person is feeling. It was almost Isabelle’s turn to get up and read her story. Each week, one student had to get up and share something with the class. Isabelle decided to share a story she’d been working on for a while. As it got closer to reading the story, Isabelle’s heart started pounding and her palms started sweating. When her teacher called her name to come to the front of the class, she felt sick to her stomach. She started walking up to the front and held up her paper. She could hardly read the paper because her hands were shaking so badly! How do you think Isabelle feels right now? Mad Nervous Great job! You were able to guess how Isabelle was feeling. How did you know? Bored Let’s try another! Luis was playing the very last game in a soccer tournament. His team was behind by one point, but he knew he could score a goal if he could just get the ball. Finally the ball came to him! He raced across the field kicking the ball. No one was behind him! He was going to be able to make the goal easily! He got closer and closer, and finally kicked it into the net! HE SCORED A GOAL! He looked around to see his team, but instead of being happy they all looked angry. The crowd wasn’t cheering. He looked at the goal again. Oh no! He had kicked the ball into the wrong goal and scored a point for the OTHER team. His cheeks started to turn red and he just wanted to hide. How could he have made such a silly mistake? How do you think Luis is feeling? Embarrassed Tired Great job! You were able to guess how Luis was feeling. How did you know he was feeling embarrassed? Proud What do you think of when you hear the word talent? What are some talents you have? Many people think the only kinds of talents are things like singing, dancing, playing musical instruments, or being good at sports. But did you know it’s also a talent to be able to recognize how you feel and how the people around you feel? It’s hard for many people to know how they are feeling and be able to tell someone. But it’s important to be able to do this. With practice, we can ALL learn to recognize and express our feelings. Let’s learn how to get this talent! To get better at understanding our emotions, we need to practice noticing how our body and mind feel when we have different emotions. I just want to throw something!!! If you’re angry, your body might feel hot. Your mind might make you feel like hitting someone or throwing something. I really just want to be alone. If you’re sad, your body might make you lose your appetite. Your mind might make you want to just be alone. If you can learn to notice how your body and mind feel when different emotions come, you can get better at understanding and expressing your emotions. Let’s practice recognizing how our minds and bodies feel when we have different emotions. You’ll listen to a story about someone doing something scary. Try to picture how you would feel if you felt very scared. Pay attention to how your body feels, and what your mind might tell you while you’re scared. Pretend you are at the pool with your friends. There’s a brand new slide and it’s HUGE. It’s bigger than any slide you’ve ever seen. None of your friends dare to go on the slide because it’s so tall. They all try to get you to do it, even though it looks very scary. You start walking over to the slide and look up to the top. The lifeguard up there looks tiny from way down on the ground! There’s a tall ladder you have to climb to get to the top. You start climbing up slowly and don’t dare to look down. You climb higher and higher. You start to worry that you can’t climb all the way to the top, but now you’ve gone so far it would be too hard to go back down. Your friends look like little ants now! You’ve only got a little higher to climb, but then your foot slips! You almost fall, but you barely grab onto the next bar by your hands just in time. Finally you get your feet back on the bar and make it to the top. You take a deep breath, happy that you’ve finally made it to the top. But then you peer over the side of the slide and see how steep it is. It’s so high! Can you really do this? What if you fall off? You sit down in the slide, close your eyes, and push off! The wind is blowing in your face as you zoom down. It feels like you’re falling through the air, but then you reach the bottom of the slide safely and let out a breath. You did it! Did this story help you think about what your body and mind feel like when you’re scared? How does your body feel when you’re scared? Do you hold your breath? Do you feel butterflies in your stomach? Do your hands shake? I want to go back! This is too scary! What does your mind tell you when you’re scared? Does your mind make you want to quit the scary thing you’re doing? Do you feel like hiding or running away? Does your mind tell you you’re brave and can do this? You can learn to recognize how your body and mind feel with all sorts of emotions! Are you ready to accept a ? For the rest of the week do your best to try to recognize how your mind and body feel when you have different emotions. Try to notice how you feel when you’re: Soon you’ll become an EXPERT at recognizing your emotions! Review: Emotions make our body and mind feel certain ways. They are always coming, going, and changing. Some emotions make us feel good and some make us feel bad, but even emotions that make us feel bad can be normal and healthy. If you pay attention to how your body and mind feel when you have different emotions, you’ll be better at understanding and expressing your emotions. After you get a little better at recognizing HOW you feel, we’ll learn about what to do when you have negative emotions and how to deal with them in a healthy way. What do I do when I’m sad or angry?
