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First Grade
LESSON
Two
Managing Big Feelings
50 Minutes
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Lesson Overview
Building on the Feelings Wheel, this lesson enables students to personalize their emotional development by listening to each other and reflecting on how they experience common big feelings. Students will acquire skills to manage these emotions, such as taking breaks, using positive self-talk, and confiding in a safe, trusted adult.
Lesson Objectives
- Define and identify big feelings.
- Share personal experiences of encountering big feelings.
- Develop skills for managing big feelings, including talking to trusted adults.
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how to prepare for this lesson
This lesson will serve as the foundation for the emotional awareness and self regulation work that makes the You Belong Here curriculum unique. This lesson is most effective when students contribute their own ideas and are engaged at a high level.
In this lesson, students will continue to add to their Kindness Bridges and will need the My Kindness Bridge Handout (from Lesson 1) at the end of the lesson. They will also continue to reference feelings and will need their Feelings Wheel Handouts at the start of the lesson. Be sure to collect these handouts at the end of the lesson or have students put them in a safe place for future use.
On Slide 9, students will participate in a feelings sorting activity in pairs. The goal is for students to reflect on which big feelings feel pleasant and which feel unpleasant. Each pair of students will need their own pre-cut set of Feelings Cards. Each pair will also need one copy of the Pleasant/Unpleasant Handout or can use a blank piece of paper to create two columns: one titled "Pleasant" and the other "Unpleasant.”
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