Finding Your Voice - Regulating Through Words

Finding Your Voice - Regulating Through Words

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  • Year 1 - 2
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Lesson summary

The animated series Bluey serves as a valuable tool in fostering children's development of imagination, curiosity, and social and emotional learning.

This lesson focuses on the capability of finding your voice. Students will learn the importance of using their voices to share emotions. They explore how to gently speak of their inner worries, and describe and practise strategies for emotional regulation.

This suite of resources supports emotional and social learning and oral language development through a values framework. Each lesson uses intentional teaching strategies to develop a specific value. This lesson focuses on:

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Learning intentions

Students will:

  • understand that we all experience different emotions
  • recognise the value of using strategies and tools to help with emotional regulation.

Success criteria

Students can:

  • describe different emotions
  • describe and practise tools and strategies to support emotional regulation.

Lesson guides and printables

Lesson Plan
Zones of Emotional Regulation

Curriculum links

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Lesson details

Curriculum Mapping

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Foundation Year Health and Physical Education

  • express and describe emotions they experience (AC9HPFP03)

Year 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education

  • identify how different situations influence emotional responses (AC9HP2P03)

Syllabus outcomes: 

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability

Relevant parts of Foundation Year Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students describe similarities and differences between themselves and others, and different emotions people experience.

Relevant parts of Year 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students describe how emotional responses affect their own and others' feelings.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - Facilitate class discussions and lead students in emotional regulation activities.

Resources Required

  • balloon
  • copy of the zones of emotional regulation (A3)
  • device capable of presenting a video to children
  • green zone box:
    • cardboard box and green paper or markers to decorate the box
    • sensory items such as bubble wrap, scrunchy paper, rubber bands, clicky pens, pillows, stress balls, putty or play dough, fidget spinners, aromatherapy sprays, bean bags, or squishy balls.

Additional Info

This is not an official Bluey lesson. Cool.org does not have an official partnership with Bluey.

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