Feelings Activities for Preschool: Share Your Feelings
This session includes feelings activities for preschoolers, helping young students notice a big feeling and find the words to share it. After a short video, students talk about using their "I feel" words to share how they feel with a friend, then play a quick movement game where they move to the corner that matches how a story would make them feel. The focus is on naming feelings and knowing they can share them.
Extension activity
- Skill
- Emotional Recognition
- Goal
- Changing the Channel on Feelings
- Grade level
- Pre-K & K
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Engaging materials
Video modeling lessonShare Your Feelings
Students learn the importance of sharing their feelings with others. Through relatable scenarios, the video highlights how communicating emotions helps build understanding and stronger connections.
- Extension activity
Interactive Worksheet: How to Share Your Feelings
In this matching activity, students pair visual icons with strategies for sharing their feelings to support emotional recognition and self-awareness.
Plus everything you need to teach them
Warm-up
- Video: Lion and Cat Breathing3:12
- Video: Our Senses Calming Break2:27
- Video: Yoga Pose Library
Session Opener
Guiding Question: Why does sharing a feeling help?
Practice
- Discussion Question
- Role-Play Activity
- Mini Game
How to use it with your students
- 1Watch Play the video modeling lesson so students see the skill in action.
- 2Practice Try the skill together with a discussion prompt, role-play, or mini game.
- 3Extend Use the extension activity to help students carry the skill further.
What's Covered
In this lesson, students learned that sharing how they feel helps the people around them understand and offer support. They practiced naming their emotions out loud with "I feel" words, and explored how noticing a feeling first can help them figure out what they want to say. Students also talked about how letting someone know why they're upset gives that person a chance to help.
Key Terms
- I Feel
- Using your "I feel" words means telling someone how you feel out loud, like "I feel sad" or "I feel left out," so they know how to help you.
- Change the Channel
- Change the Channel means noticing when your body is having a big feeling and helping yourself feel more calm. You can name your feeling and choose something that helps your body, like taking deep breaths or using a coping strategy.
Sample IEP Goal This Session Supports
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Changing the Channel on Feelings
When experiencing strong emotions such as jealousy, disappointment, frustration, or embarrassment, learner will use a self-selected coping strategy (e.g., taking a break, positive self-talk, deep breaths) to manage the feeling and return to the task or interaction in 4 out of 5 opportunities independently/given X prompt(s).
Send this tip home to support generalization
When a student is ready to share how they feel, try giving them the words to start, like "I feel..." Letting them finish the sentence at home or at school helps them practice putting the feeling into words.
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Frequently asked questions
Is this intervention free?
Yes, this ready-to-teach session on Share Your Feelings is free. You can access this intervention free for 14 days through the Everyday Speech Session Library. Every user gets three free sessions, but you can get more or extend your access by sharing the Session Library with friends and colleagues.
What ages is this for?
These materials are designed for PreK and kindergarten students.
What's included?
You'll get access to your choice of warm-up videos, a session opener, a core material on Share Your Feelings, three practice prompts, and an extension activity, Interactive Worksheet: How to Share Your Feelings.
What skill does this intervention teach?
This ready-to-teach session is on emotional recognition - more specifically, changing the channel on feelings.
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