The Emotion Mats are a fantastic Emotions rotation or ‘Fast Finishers’ activity. Students are given the opportunity to practise creating facial expressions using either playdough or whiteboard markers.
This could also be a terrific resource for Special Needs teachers to assist non-verbal students in expressing their feelings.
Use as a rotation or early finisher activity. Students can take photos of their emotion creations to create a class display.
Understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands
Identify how different situations influence emotional responses
Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions
Communicates with a range of people in informal and guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations
Recognises and describes strategies people can use to feel comfortable, resilient and safe in situations
Recognises and describes the qualities that enhance inclusive and respectful relationships
Demonstrates self- management skills in taking responsibility for their own actions
Describes and practises interpersonal skills to promote inclusion to make themselves and others feel they belong
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication
Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions
Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands
Practise strategies they can use when they need help with a task, problem or situation at home and/or at school
Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings
If students cannot read the emotion cards, they can go by the emoji printed on each card.
Have students create an emotion for their partner to guess.