How does it feel when you don't get your favorite toy? Explore emotion words with an exercise that provides pictures and descriptions of people in different situations. Kids choose from a word bank to fill in the blanks for people who are worried, happy, thirsty, or disappointed, among others.

Concepts

expressing feelings, emotions, empathy

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Additional Tags

health

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Instructional Ideas

• Include in your unit about emotion words and expressing feelings
• Use in a special education class, mainstream class, or with English learners
• Have kids draw their own pictures that show emotions, or have them express the emotions on their own faces and take pictures for a feelings collage

Classroom Considerations

• Uses some British dialect in a few sentences
• Some words with multiple meanings can fit into several spaces (hysterical)

Pros

• Helpful for kids who need visual cues when expressing emotions

Cons

• None