Preschool Naming How I Feel worksheets

About this worksheet

A child who can name a feeling has more choices than a child who can only act one out, which is why naming a feeling comes first. Every item here tells one very short, ordinary story out loud — a floating balloon, a fallen tower, a loud clap of thunder — and asks the child to point at one of a few faces. Nothing is read by the child, so a three-year-old who cannot read a single word can still finish the page by listening and pointing. The easiest sheets use happy, sad, angry and scared; the hardest sheets add surprised and tired.

None of them is treated as the wrong one to have. A child who is angry because someone took a crayon, or scared of a sudden loud noise, is having an ordinary, sensible feeling; the only thing this worksheet asks is which face matches which story, not whether the feeling was allowed. Talk about what could happen next after each answer — that conversation, more than the pointing, is what helps a feeling turn into a word your child can use out loud next time.

What your child will learn

• Match a short spoken situation to one of a few feeling faces
• Tell happy, sad, angry and scared apart from each other
• Hear that anger and fear are ordinary feelings, not wrong ones
• Talk about a feeling using its name instead of only acting it out