Resource Category: Emotion Works Level

Book of the week – 1 cog focus at a time

We really like this idea from Treetop Family Nurture Centre in Fife who identified a series of books over a period of weeks to use as a book of the week. Their clever ‘coggle vision’ planning meant that the books they shared each week were chosen because they contained a lot of words relating to a […]

Nursery or Nurture Room Wall Display for developing emotion vocabulary

This interactive Feelings and Emotions wall display was developed from a proposal we shared with the EYs team at Towerbank Nursery in Edinburgh.The upper half of the display shows photographs of different ages of people showing different emotions,  displayed with a corresponding emotion word.  These photos were found by using an internet photo search, but commercially […]

‘Soacks’ Poem from Scots Hoose website

Here’s a fun idea for adding an Emotion Works twist to a Scottish Poetry activity Add an extra verse:Emotion Words / Orange Cog focuseg Cheery socks, Sad soacksReally really mad soacks Encourage more sophisticated words for older learners.How many Scots words can you include? You could also write verses for different cogs: Behaviour / Green Cogeg Laughing soacks, Greetin soacksSleepin […]

Holiday Emotions Workbook

Gaelic Print & Display Coloured Cogs

Halloween Discussion Activity with Slides

2 Halloween-themed slides for a seasonal Emotion Works discussions Link to open the PDF here and show on-screen using ‘view full screen’.

30 Emotion Characters Worksheet

Nice and Not Nice emotion symbols

The ‘in-the-moment-labelling’ approach in practice

During puppet play, this ASN teacher builds on her pupil’s emerging knowledge of the emotion words happy and sad using the ‘in-the-moment’ labelling approach using a symbol keyring of emotion words. By labelling the emotions happy or sad using a spoken word and a symbol while the child is actually experiencing an emotion himself or […]

High School Transition and Emotion Works

P7 teachers – don’t forget to make use of your 7-cog poster to help unpack your pupil’s feelings about high school.In the example shown in the slideshow below, the teacher started out by using the Pop Art imagery of Roy Lichtenstein with characters displaying worried looks to encourage pupils to speculate on what was making […]