"Awareness: Emotional Self" Free lesson plan from Ainathrive.org: Aina Explorers (Grades K-2) This is Week 1 of 4 focusing on well-being and social emotional learning. Aina 2030 Curriculum focuses on well-being (social-emotional learning), sustainability, and how we can thrive in our communities. Aina 2030 Curriculum can be used in schools during morning meetings, science, social studies, art, mathematics, writing, and reading at the elementary level. Aina 2030 Curriculum can be used at the secondary level during advisory, mentoring, science, social studies, art, mathematics, English, and technology & engineering. All four weeks found at http://ainathrive.org. Email: kurt.love@ainathrive.org

2. Well-Being
Explorers (Ages 5-8) | September 21, 2020
Talk with your parent/caregiver, sibling, friend, or family member about
how you felt in each picture and why. Ask them if they have ever felt
the same and when it happened. If it was a difficult feeling like
sadness or anger, ask how they tried to deal with it. Ask if it helped.
Ask an adult to write down ways of dealing with difficult feelings and
posting it somewhere for everyone to see (like a refrigerator or wall in
a common area.
10 mins: Draw a picture of yourself four times throughout the day.
Label each picture with a feeling (or feelings). Include the experience
in each picture when the feeling happened each time. Experiences
could be just after waking up, during lunch, doing school work, reading
a book, playing outside with a sibling or friend, or getting ready for bed.
10 mins: Try to write short phrases that connect a feeling with an
experience (such as “happy to eat breakfast,” “sad to eat this food for
lunch,” “confused with what I smell cooking,” “excited to play with my
friend,” or “proud to read a new word”). An adult can help with words
that may be difficult when you provide the short phrase.
15 mins: Put the pictures and list of feelings on the wall and look at
the feelings in pictures and words. Write a sentence connecting the
pictures with the feelings. For example, “Today I felt happy because…”
or “I was upset because…” See the sentence starters on the activity
sheet.
Awareness: Emotional Self
Young children recognizing emotions and their causes is a base set of skills
that helps them develop ways to make thoughtful decisions. Here’s a short
video with more accessible language and explanations you might use as a
basis for helping your child understand difficult emotions and what to do
about them.
1. Recognize feelings based on experiences throughout the day
2. Identify how experiences influence feelings
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