Emotion Awareness Day served us as a good opportunity to discuss the feelings we all go through. The youngest children named the basic emotions, they decided which of them are positive and which are the negative ones, they tried to establish what makes us recognize other people’s feelings. During watching cartoons we named emotions, predicted them and finally they tried to present some basic feelings drawing human faces. Older students took part in similar activities. They studied photos of some situations and named the emotions of people involved, while learning new vocabulary they also tried to describe possible situations which may cause these feelings. They also tried to establish and then rate conditions which usually cause anger. A privacy breach definitely got to the top.
The objectives of the activities:
- ability to name emotions
- understanding that emotions are usually short-term
- recognizing one’s own way of coping with anger
- ability to define the common causes of emotions
- ability to recognize other people’s feelings in their body language, face expressions, tone
- realizing one’s needs for safety, closeness and acceptance
- understanding that in most cases we can manage our aroused emotions are calmed and they can be proceed in a developmental process.
