Health Education Standards - Age 3 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Strand 3: MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Students will identify emotions and react appropriately to different emotions.

Standard HE 3 yr.3.1

With prompting and support, express, identify, and label emotions (for example, happy, sad, angry, afraid) and feelings (for example, thirsty, hungry, hot, cold, tired).

• Drama - Theo's Mood
  Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. 
• Expressions Through Music - Jack and the Beanstock
  Watch the linked video and ask your child(ren) to hold up a card to show how they are feeling when they hear a specific piece of music.
• Read - Strictly No Elephants
  Child(ren) will read the book Strictly No Elephants with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Theo's Mood
  Child(ren) will read the book Theo's Mood with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.

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