Category:
- Social Wellness 🧑🤝🧑
- Mental Wellness 🧠
Age Groups
- Grade 4-6
Introduction
Emotional self-awareness is the ability to understand your own emotions and their effects on you. In other words, you know what you are feeling and why. Emotional self-awareness allows us to understand how our bodily sensations and our emotions impact our lives. When you have a sense of how others see you, you align your self-image with a larger reality.
Objective
Build awareness of emotions and their impact in your life.
Materials
- Paper
- Coloured pencils
Steps
- Think about the things that make you happy. A few examples to start you off:
- Your best friend
- Going on vacation
- Listening to music
- A pet animal
- Being outdoors
- Dessert
- Pay attention to how you are feel when you are having happy thoughts. What do you notice?
- Think of other words that can be used to describe how you feel when thinking about happy things in your life. Try to think of 3 different words.
- Make a ‘Happy Heart Alphabet’. ❤️
- On a sheet of paper, put 26 hearts down the left side. Then, put a letter of the alphabet next to each heart. Start with the letter A.
- Write something that makes your heart happy that starts with A – such as animals.
- Complete your Happy Heart Alphabet by writing something that makes your heart happy for every letter.
Reflection
- What is needed to make you feel happy? People? Places? Things? Activities?
- How does your body react when you are feeling happy? Why do you think that is?
- How important are other people to your feelings of happiness? Why?