For our last lesson this rotation, we started our second unit on Empathy. Students had to guess the feeling that I was feeling by looking at my face and body for clues, and once they had guessed correctly, they shared a time when they had that feeling using Think, Turn, Tell with their partners. Students first shared a time they felt happy and then a time they felt mad.
Next, Puppy came to visit the class and show off his new trick: saying all four skills for learning. He shared the four skills for learning with the class, and then Snail showed up seeming very sad. Snail was jealous that Puppy had gotten to share the skills for learning and he hadn't, so we let him show us how to assertively ask to sit next to someone.
For the rest of the lesson we talked about two different pictures.The first picture showed Jharell looking surprised. I told the students that Jharell's dad had just brought home a brand new puppy, and Jharell was not expecting it. Then students guessed how Jharell was feeling. Once we had all agreed that he was surprised, students looked for clues on Jharell's face that showed how he was feeling: his mouth was open, his eyes were wide, his eyebrows were up, his cheeks were down. Next students practiced showing their partners their surprised faces while the other partner pointed out clues on the face that showed they were surprised.
We also looked at a picture of Rita, who opened her lunchbox to find that her juice had spilled all over her sandwich. Students used face and body clues to determine her feeling: disgusted. Students shared the facial and body clues they saw that proved this feeling: her mouth was puckered, wrinkled nose, eyebrows are down. Next, we talked about what it means to be disgusted,and students took turn showing their partners their disgusted face. We ended the lesson by having students come up and use their faces and bodies to show how they felt about a scenario while the rest of the class guessed their feelings.
