Emotion Cards
I have been searching for affordable emotion cards for ages now for my classroom and couldn't seem to find what I was looking for. I have no problem finding ones with little kids but none with adults. I wanted them large and realistic looking. I told my co-worker yesterday that I was finished looking and was going to go on-line this weekend and find my own pics to make a PowerPoint presentation. Her reply "Why don't you just take pictures of our staff?" OMG why didn't I think of that!
So, I spent yesterday and part of today trying to convince my co-workers what a "GREAT IDEA" this was. In the end I ended up with 23 emotion pics! They are absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to do a class with them! I have each picture twice in the presentation. The first one just showing the face (I blocked out my co-workers face here, but believe me it was priceless). I figure we will use this slide to talk about what emotion we think it might be and why someone would have that emotion. When they click the next slide (PowerPoint novice) it will give the answer of what emotion the teacher was going for. The kids are going to just LOVE this!!!! I will update you next week and let you know how it went.
This is such a fabulous idea! I love it, and your students will, too!
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Could you tell us what the emotions were that you used? This is a fantastic idea and I have had the same problems finding age appropriate emotion cards.
ReplyDeleteYes, we did grumpy, disgusted, confused, afraid, lonely, sad, disappointed, happy, angry, worried, excited, surprised, guilty, proud, embarrassed, frustrated, depressed, stressed(our boss), shocked, nervous, mad, and jealous. We did suspicious too which it not really an emotion but was a great facial expression. The staff was a little hesitant, but I emailed the final product to all of them to use and they loved them! Sometimes you just got to be silly and laugh at yourself, right?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Thank you for all your posts. I am a 4th year teacher but a first year High School Life Skills teacher. Your ideas are tremendous and your worksheets on TPT have been great to help me start out my curiculum. Best of luck to you this school year.
ReplyDeleteThanks Philip, you too!
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ReplyDeletesorry had to delete and repost. I just love all of your ideas. Its difficult trying to find the right balance between age appropriate for high school students who are in the SDC classes. If you have any ideas please let me know. This is my second year as the Moderate Developmentally Delayed (MDD). We teacher life skills in this program. I have a blog that is relatively new called Lifeskillsinhighschool.blogspot.com .
ReplyDeleteHi Jamie, fist off I want to let you know I borrowed your playdough measuring idea and my kids LOVE it. I blogged about it somewhere down there if you want to read about it. As for the age appropriate, I really don't worry much about it. My kids are 18 - 22 years old. When they leave me they will go into one of a handful of day programs for probably the rest of their lives. I think it would depend on what level your kids are. Mine are about a 1st grade mentality. I am not sure I would want to take the happy cheerful princess' and super hero's out of them to be honest. I don't make my worksheets look like a kindergarten handout and we do work hard on trying to learn as many skills as we can to be independent. I do think it is very important to teach them (especially in public) what is appropriate and what is not according to their age and to talk to them as the adults that they are. They still are who they are and us trying to make them something they are not seems wrong to me.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading your blog more!
Karen
Hi Karen,
ReplyDeleteNot sure how to contact you except through your blog. I had a question you might be able to answer it. I need to do my students grades but I don't know how to grade them. In California students do not earn a diploma if they are in a special ed SDC class like mine. Instead they receive a certificate of completion. How do you do your grades? I don't push my students to finish work by a certain time because they all work at different paces. Any ideas? So far I just do participation for each day.
I am in California as well. We do letter grades each quarter for our kids. I am a little harsher grading than most my colleagues who tend to like giving A's. I ALWAYS give an A for effort. If a students tries and does the best they can how can you give them less? I also will give a B to a student who I know is capable but chooses not to try their best regularly. I have only given a few C's and that has been in PE or job skills for the students who flat out refuse to participate for no other reason than because they don't want to.
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Karen
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ReplyDeletethank you thank you thank you...you have so many CLEAR worksheets...without all the distractions which confuse our kids so much. i love your 'in the community' worksheets which give great direction for field trips. you are a very caring teacher...and it is great to see your heart in all of your posts! :) grace
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