How Do You Feel? Writing Lesson #6 Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Kathryn Robinson WriteMath Enterprises Inc
Writing Lesson #6 explores each child s emotions and the release of those feelings through writing. Feelings are an important element of the narrative genre. The reader will feel the emotions of the main character through the use of the writer s word choice. Yet before a writer is able choose the correct words, he/she must be in touch with their own feelings and the words that best portray those feelings. Through mirrors, partner work, and illustrations, children will get in touch with their own emotions. They will explore, react, and watch each other to learn to judge and interpret facial expressions as a sign of how a person feels inside. The lessons this week will bring joy to your heart as a writing instructor!
Writing Lesson #6 Objective: To explore children s emotions To use print on the page in small increments Materials: Chart paper for modeling Copies of the Writing Chart for each student (template after Activities ) Brainstorming Chart for each student (template after Activities ) Digital camera or magazine pictures of people that are happy, sad, etc. Emotional Faces/Show Me page per student (template after Activities ) Large construction paper or newsprint for each student Scary stencils (template after Activities Sheets for the Week) Mirror per student or two student (if possible, or at least one for the class) Enlarged copy of the expressions cards (template after Activities ) Illustrated Letter sound cards copy the cards back to back with the pictured sound on one side and the letter by itself on the other side. (templates after Activities Sheets for the Week) Yellow finger paint Crayons Scissors & glue Construction paper: white, black, blue Cotton balls & cloud stencils Blue M & M s for rain drops or glitter glue Day #1: 1. Read a book like Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis or The Way I Feel by Janan Cain, or any books about feelings. (Refer to bibliography after Day #5 s lesson.) 2. Distribute one mirror to every one or two students. Allow them time to make faces and play with the mirror for a couple of minutes. 3. Play SUPPOSE. The teacher will present a suppose situation to the students and they will make the matching face in their mirror. For example, Suppose you had an ice cream cone and I took it away. How would you feel? Students look at themselves making a sad or mad face in the mirror. They then show the
student to their right or left the face. a. Suppose you had a million dollars in your hands. Show me how you would feel. (happy) Now show that face to a friend. b. Suppose I took the million dollars away from you. Show me how you would feel. (sad or mad) Now show that face to a friend. c. Suppose you were sitting alone in the dark and I came up behind you shouted BOO! Show me how you would feel. (surprised or scared) Now show that face to a friend. d. Suppose someone came up and hit you very hard. Show me how you would feel. (hurt) Now show that face to a friend. e. Suppose you were about to fall off of a tall building. Show me how you would feel. (scared) Now show that face to a friend. f. Suppose you ran around the whole school three times. Show me how you would feel. (tired) Now show that face to a friend. g. Suppose I made you watch a boring show again just after you finished watching it. (bored) Now show that face to a friend.. h. Suppose I invited your parents to school to watch the principals give you a first place prize for your art project. (proud) Now show that face to a friend. i. Suppose you were watching a very sad movie. Show me how you would feel. (sad) Now show that face to a friend. j. Suppose I told you a really funny joke. Show me how you would feel. (happy) Now show that face to a friend. k. Suppose you had to go into a very dark and creepy haunted house all alone. (scared) Now show that face to a friend. l. Suppose a friend showed the class a naked baby picture from your photo album. Show me how you would feel (embarrassed) Now show that face to a friend. m. Suppose you saw a 2-year-old starting to walk into a street in front of a moving car. Show me how you would feel (scared) Now show that face to a friend. n. Suppose your brother, sister, or cousin took you favorite toy and broke it. Show me how you would feel (mad) Now show that face to a friend. o. Suppose your mother kept you up until 3:00 a.m.. Show me how you would feel (tired) Now show that face to a friend.
Day #4: 1. Read a book like It Didn t Frighten Me! By Janet L. Goss and Jerome C. Harste. (Refer to bibliography after Day #5 s lesson.) 2. Listen to scary music like the songs found on Halloween CD s. 3. Teacher and students brainstorm things that scare them. Brainstorm... Topic scary things ghosts monsters shadows nightmares haunted houses spiders 4. Pass out black construction paper and stencils. 5. Provide stencils, black construction paper, and glue to cut out stencils (template after Activities for the Week) to create scary scenes on white paper. baz skar me. 6. Students share their writing.
FEELINGS BIBLIOGRAPHY Aliki, Feelings (1984) New York: Mulberry Books. Berry, J., Let's Talk About Feeling Disappointed: An Interpersonal Feelings Book. (2000) UK: Gold Star Publications. Berry, J., Let's Talk About Feeling Embarrassed: An Interpersonal Feelings Book. (2000) UK:Gold Star Publications. Boddy, Marlys. ABC Book of Feelings. (1991) St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. Boynton, S., A is for Angry. (1987) New York: Workman Publishing. Cain, J., The Way I Feel. (2000) Seattle, WA: Parenting Press, Inc. Curtis, J., Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day. (1998) New York: Harprcollins. Goss, J., & Harste, J., It Didn t Frighten Me! (1985) Worthington, OH: Willowisp Press., Inc. Miglis,, J., Hugs, Hugs, Hugs. (2003) New York: Penguin Young Reader s Group. Mitter, M., Smile-A-Saurus. (2003) New York: Reader s Digest. Park, T., It s Okay to Be Different. (2001) New York: Little, Brown & Company. Parr, T., The Feelings Books. (2000) UK: Little, Brown & Co.Megan Tingley. Rhodes, K., If You re Happy and You Know It! (2002) UK: Allied Publishing Group, Inc.
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(Emotional Faces for Book Cover) Show me...
Scary Stencils
Cloud Stencil for Day #5: Sad Feeling Day
Illustrated Letters (front of cards)
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