Boris is emotional... Are emotions controllable or do emotions control you? Dave and Boris talk about healthy ways of expressing themselves without imploding. In this lesson children will learn self-monitoring and how to express their emotions in a constructive manner.

Materials Required: pencil and paper

Age Group: Early Elementary/KS1

This lesson cross references the SEL Core Competency: 'Management.'

This lesson cross-references with B-SMS 2. from the ASCA Mindset and Behavior Standards.

UK:
MW3 : how to recognise and talk about their emotions, including having a varied vocabulary of words to use when talking about their own and others’ feelings.
MW4 : Mental Wellbeing - how to judge whether what they are feeling and how they are behaving is appropriate and proportionate.

Biblical Insight:
In Romans 7 Paul talks about a life under sin. He says “I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do” (Romans 7:18-19). Paul is stuck. A few verses later he gives us the good news: “there is now no condemnation” because the Spirit has given us a life of freedom from sin (Romans 8:1-2). Where as before Paul wasn’t able to control his evil actions, now if anger or jealousy comes upon him he has the ability to control those things! We now have the ability to find strategies of controlling our anger.
Additional Scriptures: Proverbs 29:11, Galatians 5:13-16, Ephesians 4:26-27