Age: 6-7 years

Duration: 40 min

Objectives

• Recognize and name emotions: happy, sad, angry, scared, excited.
• Respond with full sentences: "He is scared." / "I feel happy."
• Match emotion words to face cards and short scenarios.

Vocab

• happy / sad / angry / scared / excited: Core feeling set.
• I feel / He is / She is: Feeling sentence frames.

Warm-up (5min)

Emotion face flash — students mirror expression and say word.

Main Activity (25min): "Guess My Feeling"

Partners take turns acting an emotion without words. Guesser says full sentence + one reason: "You are excited because you are smiling!" Match scenario cards ("It is dark and loud") to emotion faces. Write 3 sentences describing characters in short picture prompts.

Wrap-up (5min)

Exit ticket: draw face + "I feel ___ today because ___."

Teacher Tips

• Builds on K3 feelings lesson with richer vocabulary and writing.
• Accept logical reasons — social-emotional validation matters.
• Scared not "afraid" at G1 — single word target for Starters.