Feelings and Emotions Game for Foundation to Year 4: How Does Bunny Feel?
How Does Bunny Feel? is a feelings and emotions game for Foundation to Year 4 by Teach This, an interactive whiteboard game aligned to the Australian Curriculum for Health and Physical Education. Students identify and name emotions and practise respectful, kind responses. There are two levels, Foundation to Year 2 and Years 3 and 4, with 18 everyday moments in each. Every moment has four steps: the moment, the feeling, what could I do, and the best choice. Students point to one of nine Bunny faces during a 30-second think timer, then vote for Help, Give space or Kind words. Nothing is typed or saved. It opens in Microsoft PowerPoint on any interactive whiteboard, panel or projector, with no macros, no student logins and no student data collected.
Tap any egg to open a moment, so a session can be one moment at morning circle or ten in a Health lesson. The Kind words slide can stay up all day.
Learning goals
- We are learning to identify the skills of cooperating, collaborating and negotiating, why they are important and how to recognise them in a variety of scenarios.
- We are learning to express and describe our emotions.
- We are learning to identify and explore skills and strategies to develop respectful relationships.
- We are learning to select, use, and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage, and strengthen relationships.
- We are learning to make connections between our emotions, feelings and how we respond to them as actions or reactions.
- We are learning to use personal and social skills to interact.
- We are learning to identify and describe different emotional responses.
- We are learning to explore actions that help make our classroom a healthy, safe and active place.
- We are learning to practise strategies we can use when we feel uncomfortable, unsafe, or need help.
- We are learning to identify and practise emotional responses.
- We are learning to investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength by recognising and comparing different emotional reactions to various situations.
Curriculum alignment
Select, use and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage and strengthen relationships
AC9HP4P06 9 Explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions ACPPS005 8.4Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations
ACPPS017 8.4Practise strategies they can use when they feel uncomfortable, unsafe or need help with a task, problem or situation
ACPPS020 8.4Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others’ feelings
ACPPS022 8.4Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place
ACPPS004 8.4Practise personal and social skills to interact positively with others
ACPPS038 8.4Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
Start with the Meet the feelings slide and practise making each face before playing a moment. Give students a printed strip of the nine Bunny faces to point to, and accept pointing instead of a spoken answer.
Extensions
Ask Years 3 and 4 students to write their own Bunny moment with a feeling, three choices and a best choice for the class to play. Have students explain why the other two choices would not help as much as the best choice.