This Social Emotional Learning Emotions Lessons & Book Companions Bundle includes 5 weeks of kindness activities and 5 read aloud lessons on popular picture books to teach kids how to be kind in Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.
⭐Teach important lessons on emotions with engaging activities and book companion lessons that promote emotional awareness.
⭐No more wasting your precious teacher planning time looking for the RIGHT books to teach about emotions. This bundle has curated lists of mentor texts ready for you to grab and go! Kids will love the follow-up activities that are included in each book companion!
⭐Children will participate in classroom discussions and book chats, reflect on identifying and labeling emotions, and engage in fun, meaningful activities that build the knowledge of how to express emotions and promote positivity using both books and activities. Use them to build off one another for an in-depth exploration of emotions and emotional awareness of themselves and others.
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- Emotions SEL Curriculum
- Emotions Book Companion Bundle
What does the Emotions SEL K-2 unit cover?
⭐️Identifying & Labelling Emotions Lesson 1: teaches children to identify and label 12 major emotions and other terminology commonly used for those emotions with the use of emotions posters. Children will draw facial expressions, recognize their own emotions, and match emotions with words.
⭐️Labeling Experiences with Emotions Lesson 2: Teaches children to label different experiences with the emotion they cause. Children will share their own experiences with different emotions and complete various activities to help them with that.
⭐️Expressing Emotions Appropriately Lesson 3: Teaches children positive ways of expressing their emotions using appropriate language and “I feel” statements. Children will practice expressing themselves with a partner orally and through writing and drawings.
⭐️What Causes Emotions + The Brain Lesson 4: Teaches children that their brain controls their emotions and that certain parts of the brain control how they act and feel. Children will learn what those parts are and where they are through a brain craftivity and puzzle.
⭐️Thinking & Feeling Positive Lesson 5: Teaches children to name positive feelings, identify things they can do to feel good, and activities they enjoy. Children will focus on those positive feelings by creating a vision board, heart map, and reading positivity posters.
Activities included in the Emotions unit:
- Discussion Starters cards
- Interactive anchor charts
- Emotions cards & posters
- Emotions picture sort
- Board game, card game, and matching game
- Feelings check in charts
- Mini-Book
- Feelings journal
- Brain craftivity
- Vision Board
- Heart Map
- & more!
What is Included in the Emotions book companion pack:
- 5 Children’s books related to emotional awareness and feelings
- Detailed lesson plans
- Book chat cards to guide discussion
- Anchor charts
- Book responses & writing prompts
- 4 follow-up activities for every book (2 in digital format)
- Book companion guide with safe links
- Google Slides ready for use in Google Classroom
- Images for use in Seesaw
- Interactive PowerPoint file
Five feelings & emotions book companions included:
❤️1. The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
FOCUS: how we express our emotions
Children will be taught healthy and harmful ways of expressing emotions. They will identify how each emotion makes them feel and what they can do when they feel that way.
❤️2. In My Heart by Jo Witek
FOCUS: physical ways our bodies experience emotions
Children will identify and share how feelings are experienced inside and how they identify with each emotion.
❤️3. The Feelings Book by Todd Parr
FOCUS: understanding that it is normal to have different emotions
Children will learn that it is helpful to share our emotions with someone we trust and will be encouraged to identify that person.
❤️4. Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley & Anne Miranda
FOCUS: we have a variety of emotions that we experience differently
Children will identify which events and experiences cause them to feel a certain way.
❤️5. F is for Feelings by Goldie Millar & Lisa A. Berger
FOCUS: emotional language and vocabulary
↑↑↑ Look at the PREVIEW for the mind+heart Emotions SEL and Book Companion BUNDLE up close, the individual units, and the variety of lessons and activities included!↑↑↑
Don’t own a copy of a book? No problem! Safe links to video recordings of books being read aloud are included, as well as a book list of more books to use during your lessons.
DISCLAIMER: The video links to the read-alouds and supplemental lesson content are subject to change at any time. Proud to be Primary is not the creator of these videos, and therefore the links may be removed by the creators or authors of the content at any time at their discretion. If you find a broken link in the resource, please let us know by leaving a Q&A, and try searching YouTube for an alternate video to watch instead. Read alouds online are also available for teachers via the library website Hoopla.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Emily H. says, "What a great book companion set! I love the different activities, that they change with each book. I love having a set of questions for each book."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brianne B. says, “This resource is AMAZING! It has so many activities and options for using with your students. My students are engaged with this, especially with the real-life photos! Thank you for creating this!"
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This Social-Emotional Learning and Book Companion BUNDLE gives you an entire YEAR’S WORTH of SEL lessons (41) and HUNDREDS of activities along with 40 Book Companions covering many important social-emotional topics all young children need to learn and practice.
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