Colourful Feelings
St Joseph’s Primary School
Colourful Feelings
This term, in our junior years, we have been continuing to build students’ emotional literacy, helping children recognise, understand and communicate their feelings. Being able to name and express emotions is an important wellbeing skill, as it helps children understand themselves and communicate with others.
As part of our UR STRONG program, our Preps explored this through a lesson called ‘Colourful Feelings’. Students talked about different emotions and how feelings can sometimes be represented by different colours. They then created their own colourful faces, choosing colours and expressions to represent a range of feelings.
Activities like these help our youngest students build the language they need to talk about how they are feeling and begin to recognise that all feelings are okay. As students develop their emotional vocabulary, they become better equipped to seek help, manage big emotions and show empathy towards others.
It has been wonderful to see our Preps enthusiastically exploring their feelings and learning that there are lots of different ways we can express how we feel!
Georgina Carman
Wellbeing Leader