Mask of Many Colors
GRADE 3-5 SESSION 2
Time Required: 30 minutes
Content Standards:
Personal/Social Development
C. Students will understand safety and survival skills.
Indicators:
Students will be able to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
Students will be able to recognize and solve problems.
GOAL: Students will name different feelings and
relate them to their responses to the loss of their
loved ones.
Activity Statements:
Students name different types of feelings in relation to the loss of a loved one.
Materials:
Outline of a person for each group member
Crayons or Markers
Story about feelings or grief
Chart Paper
Teacher/Parent/Guardian Small Group Follow-Up
Procedures:
Session #2: Professional School Counselor Procedures:
Session #2: Student Involvement:
1. Welcome students to this session. Review Small
Group Counseling Guidelines.
1. Students review guidelines with school
counselor.
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/elearning/
Mask of Many Colors
GRADE 3-5 SESSION 2
Session #2: Professional School Counselor Procedures:
Session #2: Student Involvement:
2. Explain that today we will be focusing on feelings
in relation to the death of a loved one. There are
many types of feelings, and it's ok to have all of
them. Sometimes we may feel many different
feelings at the same time.
2. Students listen.
3. Read a story about feelings or grief, checking for
understanding from time to time.
4. Have students identify feelings in the story and
discuss whether they have felt any of those
feelings before. As students state the feelings,
the Professional School Counselor will write the
list of all the different feeling words mentioned
on chart paper.
5. Give each student the outline of a person for each
group member. Instruct the students to make a
key in the corner, matching a color to a specific
feeling. “We will color in the body with the
different feeling colors. In the end, the outline
will show where you feel the different feelings.”
6. Closure/Summary: Ask students to share their
outlines with the group focusing on at least one
specific feeling and the color they chose to
represent that feeling. Once they have finished,
ask them to place their outlines in their memory
boxes.
7. Group assignment: Suggest that students be
aware of when they have different feelings and
try to remember what color represents that
feeling.
3. Students listen to the story and answer
questions about the story.
4. Students will discuss different feelings they
heard throughout the story.
5. Students will make a key of colors matching
feelings as directed. They will color the
body outline according to their own
feelings.
6. Closure/Summary: Students share at least
one specific feeling and the color they
chose to represent that feeling. Afterwards,
they place the outline into the memory
boxes.
7. Group assignment: Students think about
their feelings and colors that are associated
with those feelings.
Discussion:
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Mask of Many Colors
GRADE 3-5 SESSION 2
Why does death upset us?
How do we feel about death?
How do we deal with the death of a loved one?
Additional Resources:
Adapted from
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/responsive
/index.html.
Extension Activities:
When the Professional School Counselor sees the students in the hallways,
lunchroom, etc., he/she will ask the students what their rainbow color is for
that day.
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