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Children will analyze various school situations and identify feeling words.

Vocabulary: rhyme, proud

Social and Life Skills: self-awareness

CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RL.1.1 key details; RI.1.10 read and discuss firstgrade texts; RF.1.1 capitalization; RF.1.3 decode words; SL.1.2 ask and answer questions

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Join Wemberly on her first day of school. Whether your students worry as much as Wemberly or not, they are sure to relate to her experiences of finding friendship and comfort in her classroom.

• Play a rhyming game! Tell students to look at a specific colored box and find a word that rhymes with your word. For example, say “I spy in the yellow box . . . a word that rhymes with fun!” Students can raise their hand when they identify the rhyming word sun. Other examples include: blue box ‒ sat/cat, kiss/miss; yellow box ‒ heart/art, peel/feel; pink box‒ bend/friend, meet/feet; purple box ‒ day/play, look/took.

Skills: self-awareness

Materials: Feelings Charades Cards printout, scissors, bag or basket

• Students act out feelings in this fun guessing game!
• As a class, review each feeling face from the Feelings Charades printout. Is there another feeling students want to add? What would the face look like? Draw and write in the last face to show another feeling.
• Then cut out the feelings cards and place them in a bag or basket. Have students take turns coming up to select a card, make a f
• Extend the activity by having students pick a feelings card and draw a time they felt that way. They can write a sentence to describe their picture and share with the class.