The document outlines an activity plan for a pre-school lesson in Portugal on emotional intelligence. The lesson aims to help children understand, evaluate, and express emotions through stories, arts, drama, and exercises. Methods include developing emotional skills, relaxation techniques, and strategies for emotional balance. The assessment is that the activities helped children understand and manage their emotions better, as their aggressiveness diminished.

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ACTIVITY PLAN FOR PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION SUBJECTS
COUNTRY / CITY
Portugal – Torres Novas
SCHOOL
Assentis and Chancelaria School Centre
LEVEL / AGE GROUP 3-5 years old
THE NAME OF THE ACTIVITY
TITLE OF THE LESSON
Social and Personal Training
Emotional Intelligence in Pre-school
LEARN HOW TO BE HAPPY
TOPIC / MAIN IDEA Expressing feelings and emotions
SUBJECT
Social and Personal Training
Basical concepts on emotions
MATERIALS
- Book Collection by Brian Moses:
“I feel sad” / “I feel angry” / “I feel jealous” / “I feel scared”
- Photos, paper, pencils, …
OBJECTIVES
• To Help the children to develop their emotional intelligence, which is the
capacity to understand, to use and run their emotions and those of the
others in a natural way.
• To understand, evaluate and express emotions;
• To understand emotions and the emotional knowledge;
• To run emotions promoting and emotional and intellectual uprising.
METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
• Developing basical emotional skills;
• Laughtherapy;
• Breathing exercises;
• Relaxing techniques;
• Developing guided strategies for the maintaining of the emotional balance.
ACTIVITY
• Ask children to make different facial emotions;
• Exploring stories about feelings and emotions
• Arts
• Drama
• Oral language and written expression
ASSESSMENT These activities helped children to understand and run better their emotions. They
have also had some influence on children’s behaviour as their aggressiveness
diminished.