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💚 1st Grade · Health & SELCASEL: Self-awarenessUnit 1: Feelings & self-awareness

Naming feelings

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🎯 Objective: Students name basic feelings and show them with faces.

Lesson outline

  1. Feelings faces game.
  2. Read aloud.
  3. Draw a feeling.
  4. Exit: how do you feel today?

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

CASEL: Self-awareness

National Health Education Standards + CASEL SEL competencies (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name feelings
  • Notice feelings in their body

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

😀 Emotions dice⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Feelings & self-awareness”

  1. Naming feelings
  2. Where I feel it
  3. Calm-down tools

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