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Children will listen to music and move their bodies to express the feelings of the music piece(s) presented. 

Find strategies and activities that you can use in the classroom that tie directly to the Early learning Preschool core standards.

This is a lesson plan for teaching feelings happy, sad, scared, mad to young children.

In this SEL activity, students practice CASEL competency by strengthening their understanding of noticing how their body feels. This lesson can be used to easily infuse social and emotional learning into classroom schedules. This lesson is most appropriate for students in grades K-5. It is estimated this lesson will take about 15 minutes to complete. Students consider why it is useful to express feelings through words.

This article includes a download to a handout that shows why making music matters.