We started our lesson by reviewing places we can look for clues for feelings: faces, bodies, and the situation. We played another round of Feelings Factory where students had to use their faces and bodies to show that same or different feeling as what I was showing. Students had to listen for "Foreman Says" (similar to Simon says) before they acted in changing their feeling. We were focusing on similar and different feelings because our lesson discussed how people can have the same or different feelings about a situation.
Next, we did a recap on last week's video about Daniel, who was hiking with his family and got lost in the woods. We looked at pictures of mom, dad, and Daniel and determined how they were feeling. We were able to see that mom and dad were both worried (had the same feeling), but Daniel was scared (a different feeling). We watched the rest of the video, where Daniel's family found him and his feelings changed.
We spent the remainder of our lesson talking about how Daniel's feelings changed from scared to happy/relieved, and how sometimes our feelings changed. I shared an example of a time where my feelings changed, then students took turns telling their partners about a time their feelings changed. We concluded our lesson by having pairs of students come up and act out their feelings in a given situation. The class would determine how each student was feeling (based on clues from face, body, and the situation) and whether these students had the same or different feelings.
