The Feelings Book and Self-Regulation

At the beginning of our self-regulation unit, we read  The Feelings Book and acted out the different emotions and discussed the four zones of regulation. I then gave each student an emotion to represent with a Todd Parr style painting. We then labeled these emotions in the colour of the self-regulation zone that they are in. Students then came up with a situation where they may feel that emotion and then a strategy to getting from those zones into the ‘green zone’. We followed this lesson with Emotions BINGO and other lessons to practice identifying emotions in ourselves and others.