Year 1/2 Lesson 1 (Cycle B): Understanding my feelings

Children learn to understand and describe the different emotions they may experience in a range of scenarios

Learning objective

  • To describe and understand their feelings
  • To develop simple strategies for managing these feelings

National curriculum

Statutory guidance

Mental wellbeing

Pupils should know:

  • how to recognise and talk about their emotions, including having a varied vocabulary of words to use when talking about their own and others’ feelings.

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support:

Year 1: Might need images from the story in front of them to help them think how the characters were feeling, along with Activity: List of emotions (see Classroom resources)

Year 2: May need time to act out their scenario with prompting questions to help understand their different emotions and what they feel like.

 

Pupils working at greater depth:

Year 1: Should describe and show how their character feels but will also understand how the other characters feel.

Year 2: Could be challenged to draw upon their own experiences to help empathise with the girl from the clip and use this understanding to describe how she might be feeling.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

Created by:
Elaine Bousfield,  
Wellbeing specialist
Elaine worked for many years as a therapist with young people. She is the founder and chair of XenZone and its children and young people’s counselling service, kooth.com. Kooth delivers an online counselling and therapy service. It is also an online community…
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