Learning objective
- To name different feelings.
Cross-curricular links
Communication and language
ELG: Listening, Attention and Understanding
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions.
ELG: Speaking
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary.
Expressive Arts and Design
Expressive Arts and Design
ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Invent, adapt and recount narratives and stories with peers and their teacher.
- Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs.
See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021 – contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
EYFS outcomes
Early years foundation stage statutory framework
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
ELG: Self-regulation
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Show an understanding of their own feelings and those of others, and begin to regulate their behaviour accordingly.
See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021 – contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Development matters
Personal, Social and Emotional development
Children in reception will be learning to:
- Express their feelings and consider the feelings of others.
- Identify and moderate their own feelings socially and emotionally.
Characteristics of effective learning
- Playing and exploring.
See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance) – contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Adaptive teaching
Adults could give support by:
- Showing the Resource: Feelings or the Resource: Photos to prompt the children when creating faces that show different feelings.
- Modelling the facial expression for the children to observe, encouraging them to notice what happens to the eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth before recreating the expression themselves.
- Encouraging the children to make different facial expressions in a mirror before recreating them using the natural materials or loose parts.
- Sharing the Resource: Face template to help the children recreate different expressions by matching natural materials and loose parts on the template.
Key vocabulary
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angry
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feelings
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happy
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sad
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worried
