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Recognizing Emotions, Social-Emotional Activities, RULER

Every school year is emotional, but 2019-2020 took a unique toll. We don’t know what our world will be like in the fall, and we don’t know what our classrooms will look like, but we do know students will need a lot of support–academically and emotionally.

Last month I completed a series of social emotional activities built around the RULER method for social emotional learning. Over the next few weeks I’d like to share them with you! You can purchase the activities in my TpT store, or use them as inspiration for your own activities. This post will focus on recognizing emotions, which you can learn more about here.

Some activities from my RULER bundle.

The Mood Meter (and Mood Rings!)

This first unit is all about using the mood meter. Students will locate their moods throughout the day, and you can graph the class’s mood at large.

Students locate themselves on the mood meter, and record what they were doing when they took their emotional temperature.
Students record their mood by coloring in a “mood ring.”
Use student feeling journals to create a class graph. Find a time of day when lots of students are in the red or blue, and problem solve together by discussing why that’s a hard time of day for so many students.
Ask students to think about how certain mood affect posture, facial expressions, and breathing.

Digital Versions for Distance Learning

Though I hope they won’t be necessary, I included a digital version of the activities too.

This is just a sampling of the included activities, you can preview all of them here!

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