Emotions and Feelings

Ages 3–6 · 7 minutes · English, Stories

Express yourself! Explore different emotions and feelings and how to manage them.

In this lesson, students will:

- Discover common emotions and feelings
- Express how certain situations make you feel
- Interact and make connections to the story
- Discuss methods for calming down when upset

Part of

Social-Emotional Stories

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
ELD-SI.K-3.Narrate — Multilingual learners will… • Share ideas about one's own and others' lived experiences and previous learning • Connect stories with images and representations to add meaning • Ask questions about what others have shared • Recount and restate ideas • Discuss how stories might end or next steps

Alabama

ELA21.K.5a — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
ELA21.K.1 — Actively listen and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion, with guidance and support.
ELA21.K.3 — Actively participate in teacher-led choral and shared reading experiences.

Alaska

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
SL.CC.1 — Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Arizona

K.SL.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
K.L.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Arkansas

K.CC.3.P — Use specific details to orally describe people, places, things, and events.
K.RC.4.RF — Build general and academic vocabulary and background knowledge of age and grade-appropriate topics through discussion, reading, and writing.

California

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
L.K.5.c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Colorado

RWC20-GR.K-S.1-GLE.2-EO.c — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
RWC20-GR.PS-S.1-GLE.2-EO.b — Use language to express ideas and needs.
RWC20-GR.PS-S.1-GLE.2-EO.a — Participate in conversations of more than three exchanges with peers and adults.

Connecticut

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Delaware

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Georgia

ELAGSEKSL6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Hawaii

K.SL.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
K.L.5c — Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Idaho

1.ODC.OC.4 — Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Illinois

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Indiana

K.CC.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations about grade-appropriate topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. (E)
K.CC.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (E)

Iowa

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly when retelling familiar stories or reciting poems, nursery rhymes or lines of a play.

Kentucky

RL.K.4 — With prompting and support, identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Louisiana

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Maine

SL.4.K.a — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Participate in collaborative conversations about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Maryland

SL.PK 6 — With modeling and support, speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Massachusetts

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
SL.PK.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
RL.PK.9 — With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and their own experiences.

Michigan

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Minnesota

0.2.5.2 — Verbally or visually respond to a story, with support and guidance.
0.3.2.1 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.
0.2.2.2 — Share personal perspective, identity and voice, verbally or visually.

Mississippi

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Missouri

K.R.1.D.a — engaging with text as developmentally appropriate

Montana

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Nebraska

LA.K.SL.1 — With prompting and support, participate with peers and adults in structured discussions and routines about Kindergarten topics and texts.
LA.K.RP.7 — With prompting and support, make connections between own experiences and other cultures in literary texts.
LA.K.V.2.d — With prompting and support, identify and explain descriptive words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Nevada

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

New Hampshire

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
J — Students will develop personal skills: 1. Communicate and defend one’s own belief, feelings, and convictions 2. Appropriately adjust one’s own behavior in response to the dynamics of various groups $3nd situations 3. Participate in persuading, compromising, debating, and negotiating the resolution of $3onflicts and differences

New Jersey

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

New Mexico

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

New York

KSL6 — Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
PKSL6 — Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
PKL4 — Explore and use new vocabulary in child-centered, authentic, play-based experiences.

North Carolina

SL.K.4 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

North Dakota

K.C.2 — Speak audibly to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
K.C.3 — Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, being read to, and responding to texts.
K.R.8a — Respond to or reenact characters' feelings in a story, poem,or nursery rhyme during or after a shared reading or other text-listening experience.

Ohio

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. Activate prior knowledge and draw on previous experiences in order to make text-to-self or text-to-text connections and comparisons.

Oklahoma

K.1.S.3 — Students will ask and answer relevant questions with prompting.
K.1.S.4 — Students will orally describe personal interests or tell stories to peers and adults using agreed-upon rules (e.g., taking turns, staying on topic).
K.4.R.3 — Students will begin to acquire new vocabulary and relate new words to prior knowledge.
K.8.R — Students will listen and respond to read-alouds, participate in shared reading, and interact independently with texts.

Oregon

K.SL.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
CCRA.SL.1 — Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Pennsylvania

CC.1.2.PK.C — With prompting and support, make connections between information in a text and personal experiences.
CC.1.5.PK.E — Using simple sentences, express thoughts, feelings, and ideas, speaking clearly enough to be understood by most audiences.
CC.1.5.K.E — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Rhode Island

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

South Carolina

ELA.K.AOR.8.1 — Determine the effectiveness of an author’s use of words and phrases in literary, informational, and multimedia texts: a. sort words and phrases into categories (e.g., apple, fruit and carrot, vegetable) to develop an understanding of word relationships; b. deepen understanding of words by relating words to their opposites; and c. identify and explain descriptive words and phrases that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
ELA.K.C.8.1 — Participate with peers and adults in structured discussions and routines about grade-appropriate topics and texts: a. enter a conversation by greeting, taking turns, and responding to others with statements, phrases, and/or questions; and b. consider the ideas of others while engaging in conversations.

South Dakota

K.SL.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
K.L.6 — Use vocabulary acquired through conversations, reading, and learning experiences, to ask questions and convey ideas.

Tennessee

K.SL.PKI.6 — With guidance and support, express thoughts, feelings, and ideas through speaking.

Texas

K.1E — develop social communication such as introducing himself/herself, using common greetings, and expressing needs and wants.
K.5E — make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance;
1.1E — develop social communication such as introducing himself/herself and others, relating experiences to a classmate, and expressing needs and feelings.

Utah

1.2.1.d — Identify and express feelings in appropriate ways.
P4.SL.1.c — Express own ideas.

Vermont

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Virginia

K.C.1.A.ii — Participate in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) on kindergarten topics and texts. This includes respectfully building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
K.1.c — The student will apply history and social science skills to practice citizenship in the classroom by recognizing the purpose of rules and practicing self-control.
K.C.1.A.iv — Participate in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) on kindergarten topics and texts. This includes expressing ideas and needs in complete sentences.

Washington

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Washington, D.C.

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

West Virginia

ELA.K.35 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
ELA.PK.SL.EL.1 — Use language to express ideas and needs.
ELA.PK.SL.EL.6 — Engage in communication and conversation with others.

Wisconsin

SS.BH1.b.2 — Identify situations and places that impact a person’s emotions.

Wyoming

SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
L.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.