Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Emotional Bag: Intra/Interpersonal

Intrapersonal
• Self-Portrait-Take a mirror and look at your face for a couple minutes. Make a self-portrait of just your head and neck. Look for all the shapes you see in you face, the lines that make your nose, eyebrow, or hair. Use a pencil first then outline in black marker. Talk to the kids about the color of skin. Each person has a unique color, take skin tone pencils or crayons and try to have them match them to their own skin tone. Last step is to include a background of either a single color or pattern.

• Personal poem-Write or Draw ten attributes that you like about you. (Example, I like my blue eyes, my pinky toe, when I twirl my hair in a circle, my gold tooth.) Transform those attributes into a list poem of characteristics about you. Have volunteers come up and read another persons and guess to see if the students know who it is?

Intrapersonal
• Friends are…- Each student gets five cards and either writes or draws a picture of “what friends means to them”. Example: Friends are funny, helpful. Once everyone has their cards, stand in a circle and toss them gently into the circle one at a time as they call out what friends are… You could also collect the cards and have them stand in a circle while the teacher call them out. Make a classroom chart of Friends are….

• Conversation Starts- Start a class discussion about topics that reflect the students, such as: Where do you see yourself in next year? Five years? Ten years? What is the silliest thing you have ever seen? When your parent made you dinner and burned it what happened?

Resource List
Peter’s Chair Ezra Jack Keats ISBN 0670880647
Tacky the Penguin Helen Lester ISBN 0395455367
The Grouchy Ladybug Eric Carle ISBN 9780060270872
Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! Mem Fox ISBN 0152019774
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse Leo Lionni ISBN 0394909143
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Mo Willems ISBN 9780786819881
When Sophie gets angry, really, really angry Molly Bang ISBN 0590189794
The Grumpy Morning Darcia Labrosse ISBN 0-590-05722-7

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