Lesson Plan: Los sentimientos en la escuela
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Learning Objective
Children will explore and analyze a range of emotions they might feel at school.
1. Watch a Video:
Todo tipo de sentimientos
Skill: social and emotional learning
2. Read the Issue:
Los sentimientos en la escuela
3. Play a Game:
¿Cómo me siento?
Skill: social and emotional learning
4. Complete Skill Sheets
Demuestra lo que sabes
Skill: comprehension
Cuenta para calmarte
numbers, social and emotional learning
5. Skill Boosters
- Writing:
Fill in the Feeling!
- Reading:
More About Emotions
- Hands-on Activity:
Calm-Down Bottles
CCSS: SL.K.2, RI.K.1, W.K.8, RL.K.1
LESSON BOOSTERS
Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.
Writing: Fill in the Feeling!
Writing: Fill in the Feeling!
- Use the “Mis sentimientos” sheet to incorporate poetry into your writing center! Children personalize the poem by writing a word and drawing a face that tells how they feel.
- You can let kids fill out multiple sheets throughout the day or week and keep them in a folder. It’s a great way to teach that feelings come and go—and all of them are OK!

Reading: Paired Text
Reading: Paired Text
- Read Así es mi corazón, by Jo Witek. It uses wonderful imagery and sensory language to describe a variety of feelings.
- The book is sure to spark rich discussions. Ask this question after each page: “Cómo se siente tu corazón cuando está (triste, contento, orgulloso, etc.)?”
Hands-on Activity: Calm-Down Bottles
Hands-on Activity: Calm-Down Bottles
Skill: social and emotional learning, fine-motor skills
Materials: clear plastic bottles with tops, water, glitter, food coloring, small decorative items (e.g., plastic beads), clear dish soap, superglue, masking tape
- Premake a calm-down bottle. (See instructions below.) Explain that when we get upset, our feelings can get big. We don’t need them to disappear, but we want them to settle down. A calm-down bottle can help!
- Demonstrate using it. Shake the bottle and watch the items settle as you take deep breaths.
- Help children make their own. Fill bottles of the way with warm water. Add glitter and food coloring.
- Have kids put in decorative items. Fill the rest with dish soap so there’s no air at the top. Superglue the top on, and secure it with tape.
