Lesson Plan 3: Body Signals, Part II

Our feelings are connected to our body. This lesson will help students recognize how their feelings show up in their body and how this recognition can help them respond to how they are feeling in the moment. 

Grade level: K - 2

Prep time: 10 min

Lesson Duration: 35 min + Optional Extension Activity (15 min)

Learning Outcomes:

It is expected that students will:

• Recognize that they feel their feelings in their body.
• Identify ways that their feelings affect them.
• Demonstrate breathing techniques and positive affirmations they can use to react to their feelings in a positive way

Lesson includes:

• Activate, Acquire, and Apply Activities 
• Rainbow Body Colouring (Printable)

Reading Comprehension Questions include:

• Take some time to feel other colours as a class by naming a colour and having students breathe in and out slowly and see how thinking about that colour feels in their body. 

Materials required (not included)

• My Body Is A Rainbow by Mallika Chopra
• Crayons or Pencil Crayons

NB: Purchase includes access to downloadable resources for 6 months.