For this week's lesson, we worked on identifying another feeling: anger. We started our lesson with a review of the feelings we had discussed last week, interested and scared. We reviewed the four skills for learning (focus attention, listen, use self-talk, and be assertive) as well as the three places to look for feelings clues: face, body, and the situation.
We began our lesson with a round of Simon Says to engage all of our skills for learning. We talked about which skills we needed to be successful in this brain builder: focus, listen, and using self-talk. For the rest of the lesson, we talked about a student named Noah, whose sister had taken his very special toy without asking. We used our feeling clues to determine how he was feeling, and most of us agreed he felt angry. We talked about which clues on his face proved this feeling, as well as what the situation was that caused this feeling.
We decided whether feeling was a comfortable or uncomfortable feeling, with all students agreeing that feeling angry is an uncomfortable feeling, but we all feel angry sometimes. We also talked about how it is okay to be angry, but not to be mean or hurtful to others because we are angry. We ended our lesson by thinking about a time we felt angry and sharing that memory with the rest of the class using Be Calm Bunny.
