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In My Heart: A Book of Feelings

Written by Jo Witek, illustrated by Christine Roussey

In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek is a beautifully illustrated story that explores a wide range of emotions in a way that is accessible to young children. The book follows a young girl as she describes how different feelings manifest in her heart—whether it flutters with happiness, feels heavy with sadness, or pounds with excitement.

Through expressive language and vivid imagery, the book helps children recognise, name, and understand their emotions, supporting their ability to describe how their body reacts to different feelings and situations (AC9HPFP03, ACPPS005 – Foundation Year, Health and Physical Education). The engaging die-cut heart illustrations add a tactile element, reinforcing the idea that emotions come in many forms and are a natural part of life. In My Heart is a valuable resource for fostering emotional literacy, encouraging self-awareness, and promoting discussions about feelings in a comforting and relatable way.

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Resource creator

Lian Khanh

Subject

Health and Physical Education,

Level

Foundation,

Description

This interactive activity helps Foundation Year students explore the connection between emotions, body reactions, and body language. Through a fun team-based game, students will act out different emotions while a teammate guesses, reinforcing their ability to recognise feelings nonverbally.

Learning Intentions

• Students will understand how emotions are expressed through facial expressions and body language and recognise how feelings affect their bodies.

Successful Criteria

✅ I can describe how different emotions feel in my body.
✅ I can use body language and facial expressions to show emotions.

Curriculum Alignment

AC9HPFP03 9.0 (Health and Physical Education Foundation): Express and describe emotions they experience

• identifying and describing the emotions of people who are happy, sad, excited, tired, angry, scared or confused
• learning and using appropriate language and actions to communicate their feelings in different situations
• recalling and sharing emotional responses to different situations and representing these in a variety of ways
• reading and viewing stories about adventures, and talking about how characters feel and react when taking risks or responding to emergencies
• talking about connections between feelings, body reactions and body language
• expressing a variety of emotions, thoughts and views in a range of situations

ACPPS005 8.4 (Health and Physical Education Foundation): Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations

• identifying and describing the emotions of people who are happy, sad, excited, tired, angry, scared or confused
• learning and using appropriate language and actions to communicate their feelings in different situations
• recalling and sharing emotional responses to different situations and representing this in a variety of ways
• reading and viewing stories about adventures and talking about how characters feel and react when taking risks
• talking about connections between feelings, body reactions and body language
• exploring how someone might think and feel during an emergency

Materials

Instruction

1. Read-Aloud & Discussion

  • Read In My Heart: A Book of Feelings aloud to the class.
  • Pause at each page to discuss different emotions mentioned in the book: Focus on the character’s facial expressions and her body language.
  • Make connections with the students’ personal experiences: “How does your body feel when you’re happy, sad, or angry?”

2. Emotion Charades Game

  • Divide the class into four teams.
  • Select one student per team to be the guesser. These students stand at the front of the smart board, facing the audience.
  • The teacher puts up an emotion picture on the smart board, so the class can see (except for the guessers).
  • The teammates of each guesser must act out the emotion using only facial expressions and body language—they cannot use words or sounds.
  • The guessers watch their teammates and try to guess and say aloud the emotion.
  • Each team takes turns with a new guesser and a new emotion in each round.

3. Reflection & Closing

  • Ask students to share one thing they learned about emotions and body signals.
  • Reinforce that all feelings are okay and that noticing body language helps us understand emotions in ourselves and others.

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AC9HPFP03 (Health and Physical Education – Foundation) ACPPS005 (Health and Physical Education – Foundation)

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