How Are You Feeling?
GRADE3-5SESSION1
Time Required: 30 minutes
Content Standards:
Personal/Social Development
A. Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.
B:Students will make decisions, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals.
Indicators:
Students will be able to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
Students will be able to recognize and solve problems.
Students will be able to communicate effectively within and beyond the classroom.
Students will be able to make decisions and act as responsible members of society.
Activity Statements:
At the end of the session each participant will:
•Have a manila folder with their name on it to keep their supplies in until the end of the group
•Know each person in the group’s name
•Will have answered the question, “I think being in this group will be…….”
•Will be able to describe the four basic feelings of happy, sad, mad, and scared.
Materials:
Small Group Counseling Guidelines
Manila folders for each participant
Pencils
Crayons
Who’s Who?
Feeling Faces
Cup of Feelings Game
Empty The Cup Situations List
Cup of Feelings Sheet(prior to session cut faces into separate, small squares)
Teacher/Parent/Guardian Small Group Session Follow-up
Procedures:
Session #1 Professional School Counselor Procedures: / Session #1 Student Involvement:1.Welcome students and have them find a seat. Provide each student with a pencil and a manila folder. Ask them to put their name on the folder and tell them that this folder will be kept until the final group session to hold all their supplies and worksheets.
2.Hand out Who’s Who? sheet and give students about 5 minutes to move around the room and find out who will fit in each box and learn other people’s names.
3.Following the group introduction and/or “Hook,” welcome students to the group. Discuss the Small Group Counseling Guidelines (attached) with the group. Emphasize confidentiality and when YOU (as the counselor) might have to break confidentiality. Add any guidelines the students want to add. See poster example of Small Group Counseling Guidelines. Display the poster to reference during each group session.
4.Hand out Feeling Faces sheet to each participant and discuss the faces.
5. Explain the Cup of Feelings Game and distribute the Cup of Feelingspieces to the players.
6. Closure/Summary: Have each participant share one feeling with the group and then have each answer “I think being in this group will be ……..”
NOTE: All materials (Feeling Faces and Who’s Who? sheets) are put in the participants manila folder and filed until next group meeting.
7. Group assignment: Have students watch people’s faces through out the week and see if they can tell how a person is feeling.
8. Distribute & Explain Teacher/Parent/ Guardian Session Follow-Up Suggestions. Send a copy home with each student and provide a copy to classroom teacher(s) of students in group. / 1.Each student will receive a manila folder that they will write their name on and that will be used to keep all their materials until the last group meeting.
2. Students will take Who’s Who? sheet and fill all the boxes by talking with the group members and having them write their name in the appropriate box.
3. Students review the guidelines by telling what each one looks and sounds like.
4.Participants will look at and discuss the Feeling Faces sheet.
5. Participants will play the Cup of Feelings Game. They will receive their Cup of Feelingspieces and follow the directions.
6. Closure/Summary: Each participant will hold up one face and talk about when they feel that way. They will then answer “I think being in this group will be ……..”.
7. Group assignment: To watch people’s faces through out the week and see if they can tell how a person is feeling.
8. Students commit to giving their parents/guardians the Session Follow-uphandout.
Discussion:
How do people develop a positive view of themselves?
Additional Resources:
Adapted from .
Extension Activities: