Learning objective
- To use faces to help me understand how people feel.
Cross-curricular links
Communication and language
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.
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.
- Creating and thinking critically.
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:
- Reading the Resource: Social story before, during or after the lesson to support the children who find it difficult to read facial expressions.
- Encouraging the children to describe the facial clues they can see on the card, such as the eyes, eyebrows or mouth, instead of acting out the feeling in the adult-led task.
Key vocabulary
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angry
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eyes
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eyebrows
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happy
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mouth
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sad
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worried
