Pumpkin face feelings game

I said I'd be better about posting... But I'm not. I'm guess I will attribute it to the fact that I am just too busy teaching and then being a mommy to find time to blog.  Soon I will back track and add some other things but this idea was just too cute to keep to myself. 

This was Pinspired... Well, I pretty much just stole the whole thing! Thanks to kidlutions you can go here > http://kidlutions.blogspot.com/2012/10/pumpkin-feelings-game.html < for the original the posting! I played the pumpkin face feelings game with some of my students this morning and they really enjoyed it. 

What you need:

3 orange paper cups (or clear cups and some orange paper or paint)

Black sharpie

Green construction paper

Scissors

Assembly:

Draw face feelings (I used happy, sad, and mad)

Cut out several strips of green construction paper

Cut the bottom of the cups so you can put the strips in the pumpkins 

Write situations on the green strips, here are some suggestions to get you started:

"You earn extra time on the iPad."

"Your family is going on vacation."

"Someone broke your favorite toy."

"Nobody wants to play with you at recess."

"You get a good grade on your spelling test."

How to play:

Have students take turns choosing a green stem. Have them read the scenario (for non-readers you can read for them) out loud and they choose a feeling. They match that feeling to the pumpkin face and put the stem in the pumpkin! 

I am definitely saving this game for next year! 

Valentine Social Skill Lesson

Ok so I am a sucker for cute theme bulletin boards. Even more so when they are filled with student work. My goal had been to try and get a fun social skills activity to do with my groups and have them proudly display them on. Board outside my room. 

We had recently been discussing compliments and saying nice things to others so I thought a perfect board would be to tell thinks we love about others at our school! It was tough to get ideas flowing but I think they enjoyed it once we found something they really wanted to say. Next year I want to get them to do more than just one or two. 

Here are some if their work with a sentence stem to get them going:

We love that...