Kindergarten · History · week 6

Feelings Have Names

Name basic feelings such as happy, sad, mad, scared, and surprised, and match each to a real situation.

Feelings are what is happening inside you. Happy, sad, mad, scared, and surprised are all feeling words. Naming your feeling helps other people understand you.

Everybody feels all kinds of feelings, even grown-ups. There is no wrong feeling to have -- what matters is what you do with it.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Name your own feelings out loud during the day: "I feel frustrated that traffic is slow."
  • When your child is upset, offer a feeling word gently: "It looks like you might feel disappointed. Is that right?"
  • Make a simple feelings chart with faces and words, and point to it together when big feelings show up.
  • Remind your child that all feelings are okay to have; it is what we do next that we choose carefully.
Talk about it:
  • What is a feeling word for how you feel right now?
  • What helps you feel better when you are mad or sad?
  • Can two people feel differently about the same thing?

Mastery looks like: They can name at least three feeling words and match each to a real situation.

Common stumbles: Only reaching for "good" or "bad" instead of a specific word is common; offering choices such as "mad or sad?" helps build the vocabulary.

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