This lesson plan is for 2nd grade students and focuses on teaching emotions. The teacher will read a book called "How Am I Feel" to help students identify emotions like sad, angry, scared, tender, excited and happy. Students will then discuss recognizing emotions in others and how to comfort someone who is feeling sad. They will role play comforting a peer with a feeling buddy to learn how to show care and support for friends experiencing different emotions.

1. Target Learners: Grade 2 (7-8 years old)
Subject Area: Social Studies
The lesson plan I adapted from Smartboard is called “Emotions”.
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Lesson Plan Overview
I am a sophomore student studying in early childhood education. During my field
experience, I noticed that children may experience mood swings in school. Therefore,
it’s important for children to learn how to deal with emotions in a positive way. Also,
it offers children the opportunities to care for others and help other children out.
Based on my observation, I will develop a lesson plan aims at developing children’s
social development by learning how to care about friends and show interest in others.
Teaching
Objectives
1. Children will identify
all the characters' emotions
displayed in a book called
HOW AM I FEEL.
2.Children will grasp the basic idea of the emotions displayed by their peers and

2. proactively take measures to comfort someone who is sad.
I will read the book-- HOW AM I FEEL to the class. (trying to make sure that
children get the same read-aloud experience from me).
While reading the book to my class, I will show “Recognizing Emotions” Chart to
children, which is adapted from the SMARTBOARD. Therefore, children can talk
about the six emotions displayed in the chart--sad, angry, scared, tender, excited and
happy. Then, students can incorporate the slide in the SMARTBOARD and talk about
why it is important to recognize others’ feelings. For children who just start
recognizing feelings, I can adapt the third slide and let children match the correct
emotion to the picture.

3. After reading the book about people’s emotions, I will ask students to recall some
circumstances they have experienced in daily life when people were sad, anxious, and
they let her talk about what will they do if people were sad. At this point, I will adapt
slide from 5-9 into my lesson plan as they have good questions for children. For
example, based on the examples given by the slides, I will ask children “how do you
feel when you are sad?” “in what situations do you feel sad?” “how do you calm
others if they are sad?”, etc.

5. Since schools have “feeling buddies” area in the classroom, I will let children actually
have the opportunity to practice how to show concerns for others. I will let children
observe children who sit alone or who hold the “feeling buddies”. I will ask children
think about how do they feel and list the feelings they may experience. After children
identifying feelings, I would ask children, “Our friend is upset right now, what should
we do to make they feel better? I think he/she would feel much better if we come up
to him/her and give a hug!” Such activity will be a good example to teach children
how to care about others.

6. Since schools have “feeling buddies” area in the classroom, I will let children actually
have the opportunity to practice how to show concerns for others. I will let children
observe children who sit alone or who hold the “feeling buddies”. I will ask children
think about how do they feel and list the feelings they may experience. After children
identifying feelings, I would ask children, “Our friend is upset right now, what should
we do to make they feel better? I think he/she would feel much better if we come up
to him/her and give a hug!” Such activity will be a good example to teach children
how to care about others.