Feelings & Emotions Lessons and Activities

This download contains lessons and activities to support the development of emotional intelligence. Please note that you must have access to the book “In My Heart: A Book of Feelings” by Jo Witek in order to properly support these activities. If you do not own this book, you can view various read alouds of it on Youtube. It’s a wonderful book for exploring feelings with children!

This package contains lessons which can be carried across three days.

Day 1: Read Aloud

Day 2: Exploring Feelings

Day 3: Calming Strategies

Activities

• Read Aloud with before, during, and after reading questions
• “In My Heart” activity
• “In My Heart” exemplar
• Feeling/definition puzzle piece match
• “Exploring Feelings” activity sheet (identifying events that cause feelings & body clues to indicate feelings)
• “Exploring Feelings” exemplar
• Self Calming strategies
• Prep-free additional activity sheets

Posters

• 19 Feeling Word Posters
• “Our Hearts are Full of Feelings” Poster (two style options)
• Calming strategy posters
• Calming Corner or Quiet Corner sign options