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Are you looking for a fun resource to get your young learners identifying feelings? This fun bundle contains 3 resource packs that introduce our young learners to the Feeling Monsters! The Feeling Monsters in this resource are so adorable your children will want to get to know them!

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Resource 1: Identifying Feelings: Feeling Monsters

What’s Included?

✯Detailed product description with ideas & instructions on how to make the most out of these activities.

✯ Identifying Feelings Read Aloud PowerPoint Story ▻that introduces us to our 12 Feeling Monsters. These gorgeous characters describe what it is like to feel that emotion and use scenarios to further illustrate what is happening. They engage our children by asking questions to help make links to our own individual experiences.

▻Have you felt this way before?

▻What can we do when we feel this way?

The 12 emotions depicted are:

• Frustrated
• Confused
• Scared
• Nervous
• Happy
• Sad
• Calm
• Excited
• Silly
• Surprised
• Sorry
• Tired

✯ 12 My Feeling Monsters Description Cards:

These may be displayed in the classroom to reinforce and remind the children of the different characters.

✯ My Feelings Monster Recording Sheet: (2 Versions - one with lines for writing and one without)

What is your monster feeling today? Why is your monster feeling this way? Draw and Color.

✯ All About My Feeling Monsters:

Create a take-home book about our feeling monsters for your children to fill in and take home.

*Cover page & 12 Feeling Monsters pages included*

✯ My Feelings Stick Puppets:

These feeling monster stick puppets are a fun way to encourage our young learners to develop an understanding of feelings and emotions.

✯ How Do You Feel Emotions Chart:

Display this chart in the classroom to encourage children to connect and check-in.

How do you feel today?

Resource 2: Inference Pictures with Questions

Get your children identifying feelings and emotions using these 14 fun monster inference picture cards. Each scene encourages children to identify common feelings and emotions using the clues in the pictures to draw conclusions.

Each inference picture card has a set of questions to get children thinking and talking.

• What’s happening in the picture?
• How does the monster feel?
• Why are they feeling that way?
• How do you know that?

Use these inference picture cards with a small group, in pairs, or individually to help develop empathy and understanding when it comes to other’s feelings and emotions.

The feelings and emotions depicted in the cards are:

▻Happy

▻Silly

▻Sick

▻Confused

▻Excited

▻Nervous

▻Scared

▻Sad

▻Sorry

▻Angry

▻Shocked

▻Calm

▻Interested

▻Bored

▻Frustrated

Resource 3: Feeling Monsters - Identifying Feelings Games

Are you looking for identifying feelings games to encourage your young learners to identify different feelings and emotions? These 4 games will be a great addition to your social-emotional learning curriculum. Perfect for our young learners, these vibrant Feeling Monsters will engage them as they practice identifying feelings through engaging in these identifying feelings activities.

✯ Game 1: How Do I Feel?

Three different ways to use these cards to reinforce identifying feelings. The children may act out the feeling, describe the feeling or match the Feeling Monsters.

15 Feeling Monster Cards included: (Color & B&W)

Happy Sick Silly Sorry Angry

Sad Confused Calm Tired Scared

Frustrated Excited Nervous Bored

Shocked

*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*

✯ Game 2: Match the Feeling (Color & B&W)

36 Identifying Feelings Scenarios

This game invites children to listen to common scenarios that may arise at school, at home, or on the playground and match a Feeling Monster to that scenario.

*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*

✯ Game 3: Feeling Monsters Bingo (Color & B&W)

2 Different ways to play!

We all love a quick game of BINGO! The teacher calls out a Feeling Monster. The children identify the Feeling Monster and shout BINGO when they have 3 in a row or when they have all the Feeling Monsters identified.

✯ Game 4: Feeling Monster- Go Fish! (Only in Color)

12 Feeling Monster Families

Each ‘Family’ contains 3 different colors (red, blue & green)

This fun twist on Go Fish encourages the children to work towards building a Monster Family. A fun way to reinforce identifying feelings with friends.

*Detailed instructions & mini-instruction cards included.*

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Gratitude Group Activities:

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Speaking and Listening Activities:

Activities for speaking and Listening: Early Years

Classroom Posters: Speaking and Listening Rules

Speaking and Listening Skills for Preschoolers

Identifying Feelings & Emotions:

Identifying Feelings and Emotions: Sadness (PowerPoint Story & Activities)

Identifying Feelings and Emotions: Inference Pictures

Calm Down Techniques for Preschoolers

Classroom Posters: Identifying Emotions

Identifying Feelings Worksheets

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Empathy Task Cards

Empathy Sorting Activity

What's Wrong with This Picture:

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

What's Wrong With This Picture? Silly Scenes

End of Year:

My Preschool Memory Book

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Emotions are BIG in preschool classrooms and at home! In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way. Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people. This learning unit has been designed with children aged 3 to 4 years old in mind, and contains 10 games, drawing activities and crafts to engage learners**.**

Play and Purposes Feelings unit focuses on:

• Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand and express our emotions
• Practicing expressing feelings individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
• Learning about feelings, identifying them, and expressing them through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 10 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

• Read and React Group Lessons
• Play in a Small Group 
• Read and Respond Drawing
• Let’s Play All Together
• Craft and Create

The 2 week unit focuses on fear and what feelings look like in those around us. Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

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Emotions are BIG in preschool classrooms and at home! In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way. Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people. This learning unit has been designed with children aged 3 to 4 years old in mind, and contains 10 games, drawing activities and crafts to engage learners**.**

Play and Purposes Feelings unit focuses on:

• Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand and express our emotions
• Practicing expressing feelings individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
• Learning about feelings, identifying them, and expressing them through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 10 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

• Read and React Group Lessons
• Play in a Small Group 
• Read and Respond Drawing
• Let’s Play All Together
• Craft and Create

The 2 week unit focuses on happiness and what feelings look like in those around us. Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

Want to earn product credits?

Leave feedback on items you purchase. Go to My TeachShare, and click on my purchases. After leaving a review on your purchase item, you will receive one credit per dollar spent on that item.

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Stay up to date with all things Pockets Full of Play:

✅ Get our weekly emails filled with freebies, teaching info, specials, and fun!

Thank you for supporting my business and learning through play!

Kyla

-Pockets Full of Play

Emotions are BIG in preschool classrooms and at home! In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way. Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people. This learning unit has been designed with children aged 3 to 4 years old in mind, and contains 10 games, drawing activities and crafts to engage learners**.**

Play and Purposes Feelings unit focuses on:

• Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand and express our emotions
• Practicing expressing feelings individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
• Learning about feelings, identifying them, and expressing them through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 10 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

• Read and React Group Lessons
• Play in a Small Group 
• Read and Respond Drawing
• Let’s Play All Together
• Craft and Create

The 2 week unit focuses on working through feelings and what feelings look like in those around us. Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

Want to earn product credits?

Leave feedback on items you purchase. Go to My TeachShare, and click on my purchases. After leaving a review on your purchase item, you will receive one credit per dollar spent on that item.

Would you like to see when I have new items in my store?

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Stay up to date with all things Pockets Full of Play:

✅ Get our weekly emails filled with freebies, teaching info, specials, and fun!

Thank you for supporting my business and learning through play!

Kyla

-Pockets Full of Play

Emotions are BIG in preschool classrooms and at home! In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way. Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people. This learning unit has been designed with children aged 3 to 4 years old in mind, and contains 10 games, drawing activities and crafts to engage learners**.**

Play and Purposes Feelings unit focuses on:

• Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand and express our emotions
• Practicing expressing feelings individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
• Learning about feelings, identifying them, and expressing them through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 10 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

• Read and React Group Lessons
• Play in a Small Group 
• Read and Respond Drawing
• Let’s Play All Together
• Craft and Create

The 2 week unit focuses on feeling identification and what feelings look like in those around us. Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

Want to earn product credits?

Leave feedback on items you purchase. Go to My TeachShare, and click on my purchases. After leaving a review on your purchase item, you will receive one credit per dollar spent on that item.

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-Pockets Full of Play

Emotions are BIG in preschool classrooms and at home! In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way. Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people. This learning unit has been designed with children aged 3 to 4 years old in mind, and contains 10 games, drawing activities and crafts to engage learners**.**

Play and Purposes Feelings unit focuses on:

• Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand and express our emotions
• Practicing expressing feelings individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
• Learning about feelings, identifying them, and expressing them through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 10 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

• Read and React Group Lessons
• Play in a Small Group 
• Read and Respond Drawing
• Let’s Play All Together
• Craft and Create

The 2 week unit focuses on sadness and what feelings look like in those around us. Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

Want to earn product credits?

Leave feedback on items you purchase. Go to My TeachShare, and click on my purchases. After leaving a review on your purchase item, you will receive one credit per dollar spent on that item.

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-Pockets Full of Play

Emotions are BIG in preschool classrooms and at home! In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way. Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people. This learning unit has been designed with children aged 3 to 4 years old in mind, and contains 10 games, drawing activities and crafts to engage learners**.**

Play and Purposes Feelings unit focuses on:

• Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand and express our emotions
• Practicing expressing feelings individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
• Learning about feelings, identifying them, and expressing them through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 10 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

• Read and React Group Lessons
• Play in a Small Group 
• Read and Respond Drawing
• Let’s Play All Together
• Craft and Create

The 2 week unit focuses on anger and what feelings look like in those around us. Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

Want to earn product credits?

Leave feedback on items you purchase. Go to My TeachShare, and click on my purchases. After leaving a review on your purchase item, you will receive one credit per dollar spent on that item.

Would you like to see when I have new items in my store?

Just click on the Follow Me link below my name to keep informed of my new releases and sales I may be throwing!

Stay up to date with all things Pockets Full of Play:

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-Pockets Full of Play