What is your emotional temperature?
In second grade, we begin teaching the children how to take their feeling's temperature. We teach them feelings are not good or bad, they just are. We want them to be able to name and claim their own feelings and then rate or gauge their feelings by a number. We call it our feeling's temperature.
1. Piece of cake.
2. A little twinge.
3. Just a little uneasy.
4. Starting to bother me.
5. Not too good.
6. Getting tough.
7. Pretty tough.
8. Really tough.
9. Can't handle it.
10. Out of control.
This year we are going to emphasize:
1-3 as the green range (easy to control feelings)
4-7 as the yellow range (caution - more energy to control the feelings)
8-10 red zone (danger - it takes a lot of energy to control the feelings in this zone)
What is your feeling's temperature?
1. Piece of cake.
2. A little twinge.
3. Just a little uneasy.
4. Starting to bother me.
5. Not too good.
6. Getting tough.
7. Pretty tough.
8. Really tough.
9. Can't handle it.
10. Out of control.
This year we are going to emphasize:
1-3 as the green range (easy to control feelings)
4-7 as the yellow range (caution - more energy to control the feelings)
8-10 red zone (danger - it takes a lot of energy to control the feelings in this zone)
What is your feeling's temperature?
