Book of the Week

The Colour Monster

 
First Level/KS1 At the end of the week ask the
children to sort their objects by
colour.
Questions for discussion:
- Do you have more negative or
positive feelings?
- If you have more negative, do
you remember it being a bad
week?
Often we recognise the strong or
unusual feelings more than calm
or happy. Encourage the children
to catch themselves feeling happy
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or calm over the weekend and
Lesson 1 into the next week.
Skills:
 Listening and talking Plenary:
 Identifying emotions and feelings • Check in with the children
 Emotion words regularly, remind them to add to
their record.
Introduction: • Discuss emotions as part of
In this book, there are five main conversations throughout each
emotions that are explored. Each of day, encouraging them to identify
these emotions has a different colour the emotion word to describe how
attached to it. It may be worth they felt.
displaying this somewhere.
Anger
Sadness Lesson 2
Happiness Skills:
Calm  Listening and talking
Fear  Using description
 Identifying emotions and feelings
Spend time discussing each of the  Emotional regulation
emotions mentioned in this book.

Task: Introduction:
Using the back page of a jotter or a Have a discussion with the children
piece of paper ask the children to about “anger”.
create a record of their emotions. - What makes them angry?
Each time they feel a “feeling”, add - When was the last time they
a circle or a face of that colour to felt angry?
their record.  

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Task:
Discuss what anger might look like.
How does it feel, smell and sound
like? Draw a picture of anger!
Create a list with the children of the
types of things they can do to calm
themselves down when they are
feeling angry. Display it somewhere
in the classroom so it can be used as
a reminder.
Ask the children to write a story
about a person who is angry.
- What made them feel angry?
- What did their body do when they
were angry?
- How did they manage to calm
down?
They could even write a personal
recount of a time when they were
angry.
Suggestion:
Ask the children to aim for 5
ambitious words and 3 varied
sentence openers!
Plenary:
• How does anger feel?
• How does anger look?
• What might you do to help
regulate your emotions?
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Lesson 3
Skills:
 Listening talking
 Identifying emotions and feelings
 Emotional regulation
 Helping others
Introduction:
Have a discussion with the children
about what makes them feel sad.
What types of things make them feel
better? What could they do to make
someone else feel better?
Task:
Ask the children to draw around
their hand and write or draw
different things that they could do
to help somebody who was feeling
sad.
Extension Task:
Encourage the children to check in
with someone today. It could be
somebody in school, a family member
or neighbour - anyone they want.
Ask them to draw them a picture,
make them a card or write them a
note.
Plenary:
• What would you do if you noticed
somebody was feeling sad?
• What would you do if you felt
sad?
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Lesson 4
Skills:
 Listening talking
 Identifying emotions and feelings
 Emotional regulation
 Body sensations
Introduction:
Ask the children what the word
“calm” means to them. Discuss the
types of places, things or people that
may make a person feel calm.
Task:
You may choose to take one of these
each day, maybe after break or
lunch and have a go at each of them.
Try an activity that encourages the
children to be calm, such as:
• Yoga
• Mindfulness Colouring
• Lights off and calm music
• Breathing activities
Before the activity ask the children
to think about the way their body
feels:
o How fast is your heart?
o How warm/cold are you?
o What types of things are on your
mind?
After completing the activity, check
in with the children again and ask
them to consider how their body
sensations have changed.
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Plenary:
• How does your body feel when it
is calm?
• What types of things can you do
to help your body feel calm?
• When might you use these? (Link
to other emotions).
Lesson 5
Skills:
 Listening talking
 Identifying emotions and feelings
 Emotional regulation
 Body sensations
Introduction:
Have a discussion about things that
the children are scared of. They
don’t need to share if they don’t
want to, but explain that sometimes
talking about fears can make you
feel better.
Task:
Ask the children to think about what
happens to their body when they are
scared. Draw around a member of
the class and list all of the body
sensations such as “wobbly legs” on
the drawing.
Ask the children to design their own
a safe space where they would go if
they were feeling scared. Consider:
• Where would it be?
• How big is it?
• What types of things would there
be there?
• Who else would be there?
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Lesson 7
Plenary:
Skills:
• Name something your body does
 Data Handling
when it is scared.
 Identifying emotions and feelings

Introduction:
In lesson 1, the children were asked
to record their feelings for the
week. Ask them to count how many
of each feeling they noted down.
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Task:
Lesson 6 Create a bar graph of their feelings
Skills: that week.
 Gathering information
 Newspaper writing Plenary:
• Which feeling was felt the most?
Introduction: • Which feeling was felt the least?
Gather a range of newspapers and
investigate the style of writing and
layout. Discuss interview techniques
and the types of information needed
to a newspaper article.

Task:
Create a class “Good Newspaper”
based on good news and happy events
that have happened in the class.
Have the children interview each
other regarding their good news
stories. Share it with other classes
and members of staff.

Plenary:
• Name three ways a newspaper
article is different to a story.

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