1. PP Lessons
Term 2, 2016
Lesson 4

2. Today’s Lesson: Feeling Sad Body Signs
What makes me sad? How do you know I’m sad? How do others know I’m sad?
Review Sad Body Signs: Crying, frowning, sighing, head down , heavy-hearted - my heart feels sad, slumped body language , slow moving, quiet , withdrawn - don't feel like being around people, look tired, no eye contact, not listening, not talking much to people, thinking a lot about sad situations face looks unhappy,  eyes look watery and droopy, don't want to come to school , change in eating habits - over eating or non-eating

3. WILF I can tell Sad FIBS by using my Strength Bar
Lesson 4
WALT learn about FIBS
Recognise different Intensities of “sad” Feelings
Recognise our Body signs are associated with feeling that way
Recognise Situations that make us feel this way
WILF I can tell Sad FIBS by using my Strength Bar
FIBS stands for Feelings, Intensity, Body Signs and Situation. In this case the feeling is Sad

4. The Feeling Sad Strength Bar
Here is a picture of the Feeling Sad Strength Bar. Like the energy bars in computer games it goes from red, to orange, to yellow, to green and to dark green. When we have a good feeling we are in the green zone. Last week we talked about feeling happy, so we focused on the green end of the strength bar. This week we are talking about feeling sad. Since it does not feel so good when we are sad we fall into the red zone.
Who can tell me how sad someone feels when they are a 4 on the felling sad strength bar?
A 4 means they are felling very sad. How about when we fell just “a bit sad”, what number is that on the strength bar? (1) And how about when we feel “pretty sad”? (3). When we are just feeling “sad”, we are number 2.

5. How sad are the bears? Very Sad OK Very happy Sad Happy
Discussing each bear discuss:
How sad is the bear? (Intensity)
How do you know (Body Signs)
Draw lines from the bear to the number/colour on the strength bar
Can you think of situations when you are feeling this sad?

6. How sad is Adam? Adam loses his ball Adam’s dog dies Kate teases Adam
Very
Sad
Very
happy
Sad OK
Happy
Discuss each of the 4 scenarios
After each one discuss: 1. How sad does Adam feel? How do we know (Body signs), highlight different intensities of sad depending upon the situation Adam is in
2. How sad would you feel in the same situation? (children could be given post it notes with their name on it and invited to come to board to stick their note on where they would be in the same situation as Adam) Highlight that in the same situation everyone had different intensities (levels) of sad.
Adam loses his ball
Adam’s dog dies
Kate teases Adam
Adam can’t find his DVD

7. Feeling Sad Activity
Activity: Give children a piece of paper and ask them to draw and or write about a situation where they have felt sad in the past week. Could role play it if like.
Then invite the child to stick their paper on the strength bar to show how sad each situation makes them feel.
Highlight: different situations makes us feel different intensities of sadness and the same situation can make different people feel different strengths of sadness.

8. How does feeling sad help us?
Feeling sad is a helpful feeling to have. Why?
It helps you to be aware that you are not feeling your happiest
It helps others to understand how we are feeling
Friends and family can help us feel better
We can find solutions to help us feel happy again
Riley Feels Sad and it is Helpful
Riley shows sad emotions in the video? Why?
Did her parents know that she was unhappy? Why?
How could showing sadness help her?
Discuss how it is ok to have feelings of sadness from time to time.
Can the children give other ideas of how feelings of sadness can be helpful? Have them think about the feelings of characters from books they read? How did they turn their sad feelings into happy feelings?

9. Feelings like sad
Today we have discussed the feeling: sad. There are feelings like sad that you might know of. Brainstorm and generated feelings of different intensities of sad. Write on the board and link it to the strength bar. Eg: tearful, upset, troubled, heartbroken, gloomy, depressed, unhappy, glum, down, hurting, sorrow, low.

10. Follow up activity:
Students can have their own copy of this and use it during the week. Teachers may like to do it at the end of the day a few times or when a student needs support with an issue.

11. Sadness can turn to happiness
Sadness is not a feeling that we always feel.
We can turn sad feelings into happy feelings if we have helpful and positive thoughts.
Helpful thoughts help us to find solutions to make us feel happy again.
View the happy Song. Join in if you know the words.
Happy Dance n Song
Feeling happy is important!
Slide 11
Students need to understand the importance that feeling sad is ok.
Students also need to understand that it is a feeling that won’t always last. Sad feelings can turn to happy feelings when we have helpful thoughts and find solutions to what is making us feel sad.
View and join in with the happy dance and song!