I have a package of emotion cards from my speech-language pathology days. I chose eight cards (two for each child) and had the kids sort them into happy and sad and asked why they thought the child in the picture was feeling that way.
Using the happy/sad cutouts from above (before they were colored) we sang Smiles, starting with the sad face and turning it upside down to smile at the end. Another cute song is A Smile is Like the Sunshine.
The librarian at our little local library has offered to help me find books for my lessons! She is awesome and my favorite book she picked out is Little Beauty by Anthony Browne. It is adorable and as you can see from the illustration it shows "sad" so well! We also read Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney and Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard. Of course every book has a happy ending :)
The librarian also found a book called When I Feel Sad by Cornelia Maude Spelman that is part of a series on emotions. I decided to copy some of the pages showing reasons why we feel sad and on the opposite side of the page show one way we can be happy. After identifying how we can feel happy we put a smiley post-it on the character's face.
One of the first things the kids ask when they come in the door is "Can we eat lunch?" They are very excited about bringing their own lunch and always seem to have the munchies. For that reason I like to incorporate a little snack when it makes sense. I gave each child a paper with these faces drawn and they added cheerio eyes to make them complete. We labeled each emotion and they snacked.
The kids' favorite part was watching and talking about these videos from the Mormon channel and I was amazed at how concerned they were for the little boy in The Coat. It was very tender!
We also ended up watching these videos because there were on the playlist I was playing from. They both include the emotion of sadness so it actually worked out great!
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