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"The Day Jamie and Maya Learned About Feelings"
Hands-on activities to help children process emotions and build empathy
Ages 4-10
Reflection
Self-Awareness
Emotional Growth
My Brave Moment Worksheet
Help children identify and celebrate their own acts of emotional courage
🌟 About This Activity
This reflection worksheet helps children connect with their own experiences of emotional bravery. Just like Jamie learned to share his feelings, every child has moments when they've been brave with their emotions.
How to Use:
- • Children can draw, write, or both in the space provided
- • Encourage them to think of times they shared difficult feelings
- • Help them recognize moments when they helped a friend
- • Celebrate their emotional growth and courage
💭 Reflection Prompts
Questions to Ask:
- • "Tell me about a time you felt scared but did something anyway"
- • "When did you share a feeling that was hard to talk about?"
- • "How did you help a friend who was sad or upset?"
- • "What made you feel proud of yourself recently?"
Examples of Brave Moments:
- • Telling someone you felt left out
- • Asking for help when you needed it
- • Standing up for a friend
- • Trying something new even though you were nervous
What Happens Next? Creative Storytelling
Encourage children to imagine and create the next chapter of Maya and Jamie's friendship
🎨 Creative Expression
This open-ended worksheet allows children to continue Maya and Jamie's story using their own imagination and experiences. The four panels can be used in multiple ways.
Ways to Use:
- • Draw what happens next in their friendship
- • Show how they help other children at school
- • Illustrate different ways to be brave
- • Create new adventures for the characters
📖 Story Prompts
Continuation Ideas:
- • Maya and Jamie start a "feelings club" at school
- • They help a new student who feels left out
- • Jamie teaches someone else to be brave
- • Maya shows Jamie her favorite therapy activities
- • They create a kindness project together
Discussion Questions:
- • "What do you think Maya and Jamie will do tomorrow?"
- • "How might they help other children?"
- • "What new challenges might they face?"
- • "How has their friendship changed them?"
🎯 Therapeutic Goals
- • Process story themes through creativity
- • Imagine positive future scenarios
- • Build narrative and sequencing skills
- • Express hopes and aspirations
🧠 Cognitive Benefits
- • Develop prediction and planning skills
- • Practice creative problem-solving
- • Strengthen visual-spatial abilities
- • Build storytelling confidence
💝 Social-Emotional Learning
- • Explore friendship dynamics
- • Practice empathy and perspective-taking
- • Imagine helping and supporting others
- • Build optimism about relationships
🎯 Learning Objectives
Self-Recognition
- • Identify personal moments of emotional courage
- • Recognize growth and positive changes
- • Build self-awareness and confidence
- • Celebrate emotional development
Emotional Vocabulary
- • Practice naming and describing emotions
- • Connect feelings to specific experiences
- • Understand the concept of emotional bravery
- • Express complex emotional experiences
Connection to Story
- • Relate personal experiences to Jamie's journey
- • Understand that everyone has brave moments
- • See themselves as capable of emotional growth
- • Build empathy through shared experiences
Therapeutic Benefits
- • Process difficult emotions in a safe way
- • Build resilience and coping skills
- • Strengthen sense of self-efficacy
- • Create positive emotional memories