Anger Management Programme - Primary

Elizabeth Morris

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351699525
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This is a series of lesson plans to use with a class or group to help them sense, understand and appropriately express their various levels of anger. It is suitable for ages: 4-11, and teachers.

Lesson 1
Feelings Focus 1

Aims:

To realise there are many different words to describe different feelings.

To demonstrate an understanding of new 'feeling' words.

Resources:

Pupil Sheet 1:1 Mind Mapping of Feeling

Teacher Sheet 1:1 Mind Mapping of Feeling

Pupil Sheet 1:2 Word List of Emotions

Pupil Sheet 1:3 My Feelings Diary

Teacher Sheet 1:2 Ideas for Using the Feelings Diary

Teacher Sheets 1:3, 1:4 and 1:5 Emotion Cards

Method:

Announce that the topic for the next few lessons is going to be 'Feelings'. Today you are going to start off by finding out how many words there are to describe our feelings. Begin with a whole group 'ideas-storm' and cover the board with as many feeling words as you can all come up with.

(Allow 5 minutes)

Ask the pupils to sit in pairs (allocate these if necessary).

Each pair should then choose one word and talk about a situation when they felt like that. If anyone is reluctant or feels threatened, ask them to imagine a situation that might make someone else feel like that.

(Allow 10 minutes)

Give out Pupil Sheet 1:1.

Explain that there are many words to describe each emotion, and ask each pair to write their chosen feeling word in the centre of the sheet.

Working together, they are now to add eight associated words to the 'Mind Map'. You can start them off by putting the example on Teacher Sheet 1:1 up on the board.

(Allow 10 minutes)

Hand out Pupil Sheet 1:2.

Read through this list of emotions with the class then ask the pupils to volunteer any unfamiliar words. If necessary, start them off by choosing a fairly easy word yourself; make it one that someone is likely to know the meaning of. With each word that is called out take time to discuss its meaning with the pupils.

Now ask the pupils to tick off any words they have used in their Mind Map. Go round the whole group asking for new words which they have used and which are not on the list. Ask the other pupils to add these extra...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright
• Contents
• The Author
• The Editor
• Introduction
• Suggested Ways in Which to Use the Lesson Plans
• Assessment
• Lesson 1 Feelings Focus 1
• Lesson 2 Feelings Focus 2
• Lesson 3 Different Kinds of Anger
• Lesson 4 What I Get Angry About
• Lesson 5 What I Can do When my Anger is Building Up
• Lesson 6 When I Talk to Myself
• Lesson 7 Melt Down 1!
• Lesson 8 Melt Down 2!
• Lesson 9 After the Storm
• Lesson 10 Making 'I' Statements
• Lesson 11 Rules for Myself
• Bibliography