For the next two lessons, we will be working on emotion management. We started out the lesson by talking about what emotion management means: being in control of our own emotions. We watched a video clip where students talked about strong emotions they were experiencing, and we shared whether we had ever felt any of those feelings.
We talked about why emotion management is important. When we are not in control of our emotions, we can make decisions that get us in trouble. We also talked about how emotions are not good or bad, it is only the actions we take with those emotions that can be seen as good or not so good.
Next, we watched a video about a girl named Maia. Her teacher asked the class a question, and another student overheard her answer. The student took Maia's answer and won a pencil and free A test score for answering correctly. We watched Maia become angry as the student bragged to her, and we saw the different parts of her body reacting to her angry feeling.
We talked about the physical symptoms we feel in our body, and how we experience a feeling in both our minds and bodies. We ended the lesson by thinking of a specific strong feeling and identifying what physical symptoms we experience with that feeling.
