Mental Health Week follow up activity

Yesterday, our Gr. 1 students did a follow up activity from the information shared with our Kindergarten and Grade 1 staff during Mental Health Week and our theme of reducing the stigma of mental health. The book 'How Are You Peeling', showing pictures of different fruits and vegetables and associating emotions with how they looked was used by these teachers.
Ms. Verri wrote:

I read the book to the class first and after we discussed the different emotions/moods people have. Then we brainstormed the different moods from the book and connected each mood they heard in the story to a particular colour, for example, red is angry or mad, blue is sad, etc. Next, I had the students close their eyes and think about how they felt today and one by one I called them to come up and check mark the mood they were feeling.

Then, I had the class view on YouTube "Art Attack Clay Faces". It teaches them how to shape clay, or in our case we are using model magic, to make different emotions on a face. After the video each student was given 2 small balls of model magic, one to use for the face and the other to use for the face features (eyes, eyebrows, mouth). They then coloured the model magic to match their emotion and created the face.

 
 Turned out great and the students enjoyed it.