How do you feel today?
How to make and use your feelings chart:
A note to parents:
A note to parents:
- The goal of this activity is for your child to have a visual system for identifying and expressing emotions.
- You can complete as much or as little of this as you want in one day or stretch it out over many days. It is never a “completed” activity, as it’s intended to be a tool for your home classroom (and family time, too) going forward.
- This chart can help children build emotional vocabulary and give them a non-verbal way to express their emotions when they can't access language.
Practice using your emotions chart.
Take a moment to remember how to use it:
- The colors on the bottom (blue and green, cool colors) represent lower energy emotions
- The colors on the top (red and yellow, warm colors) represent high energy emotions.
- The colors on the left represent unpleasant emotions ("feeling blue"/ "fire-y").
- The colors on the right represent pleasant emotions (relaxing-in-the-green-grass / joyful-and-sunshine-y).
Get ready to move your marker to
show how Mrs. Jordan is feeling:
Now move your marker to the place that shows best how you are feeling right now.
Ask members of your family how they are feeling. Move your maker to the place that shows best how your family member is feeling.
Bonus Activity:
Use your feelings chart any time you want!
