PDF medium-term plan plus accompanying worksheets and Powerpoints
KS1
Years 1-2
This six-week series of lessons focuses on helping KS1 pupils to be able to express their feelings and understand that all emotions are equally valid. Why not make this part of your World Mental Health Day activities?
Plan author Abby King has based the unit around Matt Haig’s sensitive graphic novel The Truth Pixie, an enchanting rhyming story about learning to love yourself.
We’ve produced a range of free worksheets and PowerPoints to make delivery of this medium term plan as easy as possible.
The learning objectives are:
Week 1
- Think about ourselves and recognise what we like and dislike
- Celebrate our strengths
Week 2
- Develop vocabulary to describe feelings
- Identify comfortable and uncomfortable feelings
Week 3
- Describe feelings to others
- Think about who to go to if we are worried and how to attract their attention
Week 4
- Understand change and loss and associated feelings
Week 5
- Develop simple strategies for managing feelings
Week 6
- Understand that feelings can change
- Set goals for the future
This download contains:
- PDF lesson plan
- What am I good at? PowerPoint
- Match the feeling to the face PowerPoint
- Feeling scared PowerPoint
- Changes PowerPoint
- Good to be me worksheet
- Comfortable or uncomfortable worksheet
- Feelings bingo worksheet
- Ladder of calm bookmark worksheet
