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Project Title - Emo, Inc. : We Learn About Our Feelings Because We Care!
Essential Question:
How does knowing and understanding how we feel help us to know ourselves and relate to those around us better?
Content Goal:
With a focus on Social Emotional Learning, students will learn about different emotions and how to identify and navigate some of those feelings. Students will get to design a monster to help them visualize and help them with big emotions. Students will also be able to teach others how they use this monster and how it can help them navigate their own feelings.
Standards:
1. CCSS 1.G.A.2: Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.
2. Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
5 Core Competencies
Self Awareness
Self Management
Responsible Decision Making
Relationship Skills
Social Awareness
Students were introduced to the movie: Inside Out and were asked what do they know and notice about this movie.
Students learned:
How to identify their feelings
Connect to their own personal experiences
Acknowledge the value of having a range of emotions
Identify their own perspective and the perspective of others
Think about helpful vs. unhelpful responses to emotions from themselves and others
Students were also introduced to the Scribble Spot song!
Students learned about emotions and how they can identify their emotion they feel at any given time.
Students singing our project song while also dancing!
Students first got to practice their fine motor skills through sewing their monster!
Students then got to make their monster bigger through construction paper!
Students final product was made with felt, stuffed their monsters body and got to sew their final product!
Students created their 'Care Folders' for Exhibition! All their activity sheets from the year were placed here and students presented this to family and friends. This student walks through each page and explains their process during the creation of her Emotion Monster!
Our classroom/project work during Exhibition!
Exhibition is a time where friends, family members and community members come together to view students final products, as well as their process work! Students share with any and everyone any information / questions guests may have.Â
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