My Feelings

Here is what we’ve been doing this week. Let us know what you think.  We hope by providing these materials to you free of charge, it will make your life easier! 

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Below is a list with our full lesson plans.

Lesson Plan: The lesson plan includes all the lessons for the week, as well as optional ideas. Items following the lesson plan are just the printables or links to websites we used to teach these plans.  (Please note: On top of our lesson plan we are reading books daily that relate to our theme.)

Memory Verse: This memory card is for daily use during our calendar time.  You can learn more about calendar time at 1+1+1=1 or Homeschool Creations.  Our weekly devotional is an object lesson that will help your child apply the meaning of the verse to them.

Special Note: We are so excited to introduce some new activities this week, as well as some twists to a few old ones.  Let us know what you think. 

Day 1:  
Beginning Sound Puzzles- A New Activity! Helps your child to focus in on the beginning letter sounds he/she hears.

Count & Color: Feelings- Here’s a twist to our Roll & Color/Color by Number. This activity will help your child count whole numbers up to 6 and reinforce colors.

 

Feelings Sort- Label the top of a piece of construction paper with a feeling word– afraid, happy, mad & sad. You’ll need 4 pages. (Ex: orange for afraid, yellow for happy, red for mad and blue for sad) Cut out as many images from this packet as you choose. Have your child sort the pictures onto the right sheet of paper and then glue it on.  You can also find pictures in old magazines or newspapers too.

 

Day 2:  
Beginning Writing: Feelings- This activity will help build fine motor skills as your child practices tracing.

Spin & Graph: Feelings- Here’s a twist to our roll and graph. We used spinners a lot in the 3rd grade classroom and since we weren’t working on 6 feelings, I figured it was time to bring in the old reliable spinner. 

This activity will introduce your child to data collection and interpretation. Once you’ve completed the graph (first item to # of choice), make sure to ask simple questions.  Such as, “Which color is taller? What item is that?  Which color is shorter? Which item is that? How many times did we give the (item) a sticker?”  Make sure to show them how to use the graph, instead of just counting the stickers.

 

Feelings Paper Plate Craft- Help your child decorate paper plates
and use them as feeling masks.  Then use them as props as you sing silly songs about feelings. 

 

 

Day 3:  
Look, See, Spell: Feeling Words- Another new activity.  This activity was adapted from Fountas and Pinnell, a phonics program that I used in the classroom.  The original activity designed for Ks was to build(spell) the word and then write it.  Our kiddos weren’t ready for writing, so we decided to set it up as you see below.

Shape Faces- This activity will reinforce shape recognition.

 

 

Sesame Street Feelings Playlist- The following playlists will be a fun way to reinforce all the feeling words that have been discussed this week.

   

 

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Looking for more ideas?

• Devotional & Memory Verse
• Family Night- Emotional Pizzas
• Feeling Games
• 1+1+1=1 Feelings Tot Pack

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Feelings Ideas

This week we are talking about feelings.  We are already working with some good ideas to talk about feelings in our unit this week, so I tried a couple of new games and ideas with E this evening as we had some family time. 

The first thing we did was attempt to make a happy or sad face with our pattern blocks.  We played around for a bit, but E really wasn’t wanting to make faces.  She was more into the patterns.  Go figure.   Still, it was family time, and we had fun with it. 

We also played a game where she got to up and down the steps.  We called the up/down game.  I spelled out the words SAD, MAD, and HAPPY on some paper, one letter per piece.  I put SAD and MAD going down the steps, and put HAPPY on the opposite side going up. 

She said each letter as she stepped on it, and spelled SAD and MAD, which got her down the steps, (get it, it got her down? Ok, I know I’m reaching here…) and then when she was going up she spelled out HAPPY.  E did this several times.   I don’t really know why it was so entertaining for her, but hey, it worked!  

There are a couple of extra ideas for the week.  I hope that maybe you can use them, or that they spark your imagination! 

A Happy Heart

The verse you will be working with your child on this week is Proverbs 15:13 .

 “A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.  ”

Materials:

• Bible Memory Card
• A mirror

Directions:

• Say the verse above with your tot.  We suggest that you print the verse off and use it every morning with your calendar time.  If you don’t do calendar time still say the verse each morning with your tot before you begin tot school.
• Follow the cues given in this devotional. 

Talk with your child about the following:
This week we are learning all about feelings.  We’ve talked about the feelings that we have, haven’t we?  What are some feelings that we’ve talked about?  We’ve talked about being happy, sad, mad, and afraid, haven’t we?  I have with me a mirror and I am wondering if you will help with me something.  I need you to make some faces for me.   When you make a face I want you to look in the mirror, ok?  Do you think you can do that?  Ok, the first face I want you to make is a face that you would make if you were scared.  Can you make a scared face?   Look in the mirror at your scared face!  It makes mommy scared to see your scared face!  Ok, what about a mad face?  Can you show me what you look like when you’re feeling mad?   Ohhh, that is an angry face!  What about sad?  Yeah, we make a crying face when we’re sad, huh?  Ok, last one.  Can you make a happy face?  That’s right!  We smile when we’re happy, don’t we.  I like you’re happy face the best.  God does too.   Our verse today tells us that when we are happy, that our faces show it with a smile.  It also says that when we are sad, our faces can show that, too.  Our faces show everybody what it is we are feeling inside our hearts.  God knows that sometimes things will make us sad, but He also lets us know in the Bible that He will always be there for us.  That can make us very happy, and when our hearts are happy then our faces will show that to everyone else.  Let’s pray that God will always be with us to give us happy hearts. 

Dear God, we know that the faces we make say a lot about what we are feeling in our hearts.  We know that you are always with us, and we ask that when we aren’t feeling happy you would help to think of all good and perfect things that you have put in our lives and that you would fill our hearts with joy, because we know that when our hearts are happy, our faces will show that to everyone we meet.  We pray this in your name, Amen. 

Questions to ask:

• You may want to review last weeks questions with your tot
• Who makes our hearts happy?  God
• How do other people know that we are happy?  Our faces! 

Movie Night & Emotional Pizzas

This week we are learning all about Feelings!  We are focusing on happy, sad, afraid and mad. 

For our family night, we decided to make “emotional” pizzas. Unfortunately, the boy is so used to getting something sweet that he kept saying, “After I eat this I’m going to get a special treat.”  He didn’t believe us when we responded, “This is your special treat.”

Here is what you’ll need:  pre-made individual pizza crust pizza sauce cheese toppings of choice

Below are the steps to make these “Emotional” pizzas.  Now I realize that you probably don’t need me to break it down for you, but I like sharing all the pictures!  So, just humor me.

Step 1:	Step 2:
Take your individual crust and spread some pizza sauce on it.	Add some cheese.
Step 3:	Step 4:
Add the toppings of your choice and lay it out to look like a face.	Go ahead and change the faces to find the one you like the best.

Step 5:

Bake as directed. Then EAT and ENJOY!

 

To end the night watch a movie.  We watched Ruby’s Studio: The Feelings Show from The Mother Company.  If you have any other movie suggestions feel free to share in the comments.

Movie Ideas:

• Use your discretion on what is appropriate for your child.  This movie is merely a suggestion and you should read and consider reviews of these movies before watching them.
• Be sure and check Netflix if you have an instant streaming option.