Early Childhood Education

Learning Experience Template

Name: Audrey Burns Lesson Title: If You Feel It And You Know It!
Date: 4/3/24 Grade Level:Preschool Circle one: ECE PKSN
Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Creative Development 2.a. Develops ability to express new ideas through imagination and inventive play

Standard(s)/Guideline(s): Social and Emotional Development 1.b. Develops understanding of emotions.

Pre-assessment of current knowledge: Observe how students express emotions throughout different activities. Note if students may have trouble
with those expressions and notice what types of emotions they are and what the student is doing while feeling them.

Instructional Objectives (1-2) Assessment of Student Learning Learning Experience

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One/Two Assessed Instructional
Objective(s): The student will be
able to learn a variety of ways to
express their emotions and explain
what they do while they have those
feelings
One Assessed Developmental
Skill: Expression and
Communication of emotions
Safety Considerations:
- Making sure students are aware
and follow all of the classroom
safety rules such as no running
- Making sure no emotion cards
end up on the floor for someone
to slip on.
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Identify Evidence: (What will you collect or record as data
to demonstrate students have met your objective(s) and
skill?) I will note whether each student is able to
successfully express the emotions listed on the card. For
further evidence, I can observe the students in the
classroom environment to see if these practices are being
implemented into everyday activities.
Program Monitoring: (How will you aggregate or compile
your evidence into a class or group view?) I will observe if
90% of the class actually implements these practices in
everyday actives. If the students fail to do so, I can
reintroduce these standards in a different form of activity.
Differentiation: I can provide thicker cards for students that
may struggle with fine motor skills. I can also give students
the option to act out the emotions with words or actions
depending on if I have a student that struggles with speech
or gross motor skills.
Academic Language:
Emotions, Expression
Procedural steps:
- Greet students: (Hi friends! Today we are going to look at
some emotion cards and act them out!)
- Go over some of the cards so students can understand
what will be listed on each card.
- Give students individual emotion cards or act them out as
whole class.
- Have students act out the emotion on the card and
describe what they do when they feel that emotion.
- After all emotions are acted out, as a class we will make an
anchor chart for each listed emotion.
- On the anchor chart we will discuss adjectives for these
emotions, as well as, productive ways to express this
emotion without hurting ourselves or others.
- Let each student contribute and explain how they express
bigger emotions productively.
- Explain that its okay to have big emotions and its totally
normal to feel big things.
- For fun at the end, play a charades game
- Students will come to the front of the group, act out an
emotion, and have the students guess the emotion.
- Take notes of all of student interaction and expression
- Note if we should revisit this standard in another activity
- Continue to watch students for weeks to come to see if this
practice is being implemented.
Authentic Materials: (Describe authentic real-life, hands-on
materials.)
Emotion cards, pen, paper, sheet paper, marker
Adult Roles: The role of the educator in this activity is to
lead the students in this activity. The educator can participate
in the activity with the class and give their personal input so
the questions asked so that the students don’t feel
embarrassed for answering. If there is an aid in the
classroom, they will most likely be working with one
individual or a small group of students while doing this same
activity. The educator in this classroom is also responsible for
documenting the success of the activity and if the students
are meeting the objectives.
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Resources & References:

Reflection: (What have you learned about your students? How will this inform future instruction?)

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