ACTIVITY IDEAS:

• Your COGmas story can be told from the perspective of a fictional character in a book, film, Christmas Advert or your own imagination. Alternatively, your story can be based on a real life scenario or memory, or it can be about someone you know, or someone in the news.
• You might choose to create a class or group story using the Bauble Cog Sheets, or other card sets you have. If you’ve already created a display during days 1-4 then you’re half way there – just make use of it to build your ‘story’ by recording the discussion you have using the cogs in the display. Members who have an Interactive Symbol Display resource set up could use this too. 
• Start with one of the Emotion Words on the orange cog card or sheet and go from there. Build up your story as you move along on to the other cog cards – including the Trigger, Body Sensations, Behaviours and Regulation Strategies cogs. Plus Intensity and Influences if you’re working with those cogs too. We’d be very happy to see stories shared from these activities.
• If you’re not too familiar with the Emotion Works Cog System use the word slides in Activity Pack 2 to help you structure your Cog Conversation about a particular word. This should help you see how the cogs help structure emotional narrative and story telling about different emotional events and experiences.
• After working on composing an emotion story together, or discussing one of the word slides, pupils could then work in groups, pairs or individually to create their own story about the same emotion discussed, or a different one from the word list. Learners from member schools could make use of their A3 Storyboard tool, a story board worksheet or use one of the new festive Bauble versions of these provided in Activity Pack 1.
• ‘Cog Confident’ pupils might manage to compose a festive story by simply referring to a Cog Model rather than setting it out on a storyboard. Any written out versions always look great when highlighters in the cog colours are then used to highlight the different words & phrases in the story that relate to the cog concepts.
• Another idea for adding a festive touch to your story compositions would be to create 5-part, 6-part or 7-part paper chains to think about the different cog components of the story separately and then to link them up in a single story chain.
• Emotion Works Practitioners often use the cogs to ‘unpack’ the different aspects of emotion in a Literacy Stimulus – take a look at some festive examples of this on the Emotion Works Christmas Padlet
• We’d also be delighted to see your #EWcogmas stories shared through artwork, drama, song or any other creative ideas you have that we haven’t thought of or seen before!