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Literature: My Body Sends a Signal: Helping Kids Recognize Emotions and Express
Feeling (Maguire, 2020).
• In-school Activity:
◦ Teachers will read the book aloud to students in the whole group.
◦ Teachers will show the emotion cards and feeling cards provided by the
book to the students after reading the story.
◦ Students will act out the emotions or feelings in small groups.
◦ Students will have a discussion in their small groups after acting out emotions Amy Clark has two
or feelings. decades of experience in
◦ Teachers will provide the students with a sheet of paper for students to create education, including early
intervention, preschool,
their own emotion cards and feeling cards that show how they feel. elementary, and
• Out-of-school Activity: undergraduate instruction.
◦ Students will take their emotion cards and feeling cards home. Her background in special
◦ Families will take turns acting out the emotions and feelings. education has included
supporting students with
Literature: Scribble Stones (Alber, 2019). challenging behaviors to
achieve success in the
• In-school Activity: general education setting.
◦ Teachers will read the book aloud to students in small groups. She is passionate about
◦ Students will brainstorm and then write their amazing goals on an image of early education and the
a stone. successful inclusion of
◦ Students will write about a way they can bring joy to others on the other side all students within the
of the stone. general education setting.
aclark@ghaea.org
◦ Students will place the stones around the classroom or around the school.
• Out-of-school Activity:
◦ Students will take home a copy of the story to read with their families.
◦ Students and their families will decorate a stone with symbols that bring
their family joy.

Literature: Mindful Games for Kids: 50
Fun Activities to Stay Present, Improve
Concentration, and Understand Emotions Students need teachers who have
(Sargent, 2020).
• In-school Activity: received training and are willing to
◦ Teachers will select an activity or
game to bring into the classroom embrace the changing emotional
each week.
◦ Student groups will be mixed to needs of those in their classroom.
allow students opportunities to
engage with their classmates in
different ways.
◦ Students will interact with various concepts to support the development of
social-emotional learning.
• Out-of-school Activity:
◦ Students will take the mindful games home each week to complete with their
family.

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