Student Wellbeing

Emotional Literacy

This Term in Friendship Groups, we will focus our learning on emotions, including naming and understanding them.

In Friday's lesson, the students named all the different emotions they could name, including playing a game of emotion charades!  They then had to identify the emotions that the different characters were feeling. This was a funny one!

After this, they reflected on the emotion they were feeling that day. This is a great skill to do and check in with!

Here are some ideas of some emotional literacy games you can play at home!!

Creative and game-based activities

• Emotion Charades or Pictionary: Write down different emotions on slips of paper and have family members act them out or draw them for others to guess.
• Feelings Collage: Cut out pictures from magazines that represent different emotions and create a collage.
• Emotion Cards: Use pre-made or DIY emotion cards for sorting games, matching games, or memory games.
• "I Am" Pictures: Have family members draw pictures of things they like about themselves.
• Emotions Drawing: Ask children to draw faces showing different emotions.
• Playdough Emotions: Use playdough to mold and shape different facial expressions.
• Emotion Sorting: Use toy faces, stuffed animals, or emotion cards to sort feelings into categories like happy, sad, or angry.