Develop students’ abilities to identify and manage their feelings and emotions with this social emotional unit. Whether you use this unit during morning meeting or another social emotional learning time, the lessons, discussions, and student journal will engage your students in social emotional development, character education and community building. You'll experience proud teaching moments as your students discuss strategies for managing feelings effectively and for self-regulating their emotions.

The main emotions discussed in this unit include: anger, sadness, stress, jealousy, anxiety/worry, feeling relaxed, and feeling excited/excitement.

This unit is included in my SEL Morning Meeting Themes Set 3 with four other themes. If you want a whole curriculum for social-emotional learning or morning meetings, consider the all themes bundle of 17 social-emotional learning units where you’ll save 40%.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR MANAGING EMOTIONS SEL MORNING MEETING THEME SET:

✨ TEACHER SUPPORT

➥ a teacher overview of the FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS theme with suggested read alouds, discussion questions, activities and extension ideas, and linked online resources

➥ 20 days of printable and editable lesson plans

➥ list of emotion-specific read alouds for anger, sadness, worry, fear, and jealousy

➥ an explanation of Managing Emotions and Emotional Intelligence

💜 You'll have more than you need to address managing emotions and feelings. Pick and choose from the ideas and lessons offered to customize a unit that specifically meets your students needs, or grab the 20 days of lesson plans and print and go!

💜 Some of the suggested picture book read alouds for this unit include: Even Superheroes Have Bad Days, Michael Rosen's Sad Book, The Heart and the Bottle, Ruby's Worry, and Those Shoes.

✨ BULLETIN BOARD WITH QUOTES AND KEY VOCABULARY

➥ 6 Managing Emotions and Feelings-related quotations

➥ important vocabulary with definitions: emotion, emotional intelligence, coping skills, self-regulation, mood, and well-being

➥ decorative quotation posters

• comes in color and ink-saving versions

💜 The bulletin board helps anchor important learning and growth. Displaying key vocabulary creates an established language for your unit and related quotations inspire everyone to internalize the importance of having courage. If you implement many theme units, your *growing* bulletin board becomes a display of students' learning as you add new themes!

✨ STUDENT JOURNALS

➥ cover pages with quotations and important vocabulary

➥ managing emotions-related discussion prompts

➥ always, sometimes, rarely self-reflection

➥ goal setting: Improving my ability to manage a particular emotion

➥ emotional intelligence sort (digital only)

➥ labeling the wheel of emotional intensity

➥ graphic organizers for describing a feeling, responses to a feeling, and healthy strategies for coping with a feeling (included for anger, sadness, stress, jealousy, anxiety/worry, feeling relaxed, and excited)

➥ 6 Ways People Cope with Strong Emotions

➥ "I Can Change My Mood" graphic organizer

➥ 6 quotation analysis journal prompts

➥ emotions/feelings stories compare and contrast chart

💜Student journals allow students time to process big thoughts and ideas before beginning a discussion. Student journal pages become a record of their learning that can be referenced in the future!

✨ DIGITAL COMPONENTS

➥ Managing Emotions SEL Teacher Slides (Google Slides)

➥ Managing Emotions SEL Notebook for Students (Google Slides)

➥ Editable Lesson Plans

💜Implement this unit digitally or use the teacher slides to display your lessons + capture student responses to discussions.

With these IDENTIFYING FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS SEL Morning Meeting Activities, you are able to incorporate social emotional development and classroom community building while targeting common themes in literature and your grade level's ELA standards. Students who experience theme-based morning meetings develop a strong understanding of themes in literature because this and other ELA skills are integrated into the morning meeting routine!

Ignite your students’ interests and growth with discussions and experiences specifically designed to strengthen their social emotional development and managing emotions skills!

You won't be disappointed in the time you spend with these upper elementary social emotional/morning meeting lessons!

➥ Learn more about my Framework for Theme-Based Morning Meetings and if you have any questions, please reach out at tarheelstateteacher@gmail.com or use the Q/A here!

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Looking for more SEL Morning Meeting themes?

ALL SEL-Morning Meeting Themes Bundle - 17 in All! SAVE 40%!

SEL Morning Meeting Theme Set #1

Belonging Theme

Kindness Theme

Compassion Theme

Conflict Theme

Perseverance Theme

SEL Morning Meeting Theme Set #2

Integrity Theme

Compromise Theme

Happiness Theme

Goal Setting Theme

Individuality/Be You

SEL Morning Meeting Theme Set #3

Friendship Theme

Courage Theme

Intrinsic Motivation Theme

Managing Emotions Theme

Responsibility Theme

Growth Mindset

Gratitude

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