Feelings Chart and Check-In Cards

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 23 pages, 232 type-in fields

• A Feelings Chart: all 10 feeling words on one poster, meant to be posted on a wall and taught from, not cut apart
• 10 feelings cards, 2 inches square, sized for velcro dots: happy, sad, angry, scared, worried, tired, sick, calm, surprised, silly
• Every card and the chart twice: a full-color set for the wall and the board, and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• A Feelings Check-In Board with one main "How Do I Feel Right Now?" slot and a six-slot "Today's Check-Ins" strip with a time line under each
• Two desk-size feelings boards on one sheet, for a folder or a second setting
• 10 blank feelings cards with a type-in word line, for any feeling the printed set does not cover
• A how-to page: before the first day, the three moves every time, how often to check in, if the feeling picked surprises you, when a word is missing, writing down what changes
• A Feelings Check-In Log (16 rows: date, time, feeling, how checked in, where, notes)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a check-ins-per-week graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every number re-counted from its own row
• A family page with a kitchen-size chart and board and six home feelings on one sheet
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional or another classroom runs the same chart and board the same way
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for the chart and board, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 11 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A feelings check-in tool that comes with its own data. Most feelings charts stop at the poster; this one adds a cut-apart card for every word, a check-in board, a log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a feeling named at check-in turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Chart And Cards

• The chart: all 10 words on one page, for teaching and for the wall
• The cards (10) — happy, sad, angry, scared, worried, tired, sick, calm, surprised, silly: the same 10 words, cut apart so one can move onto the check-in board

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set; a word that failed in either set was left out of both. Cards are 2 inches square; the board's main slot is sized to match.

The Board

• Feelings Check-In Board — one "How Do I Feel Right Now?" panel with a slot, and a "Today's Check-Ins" strip of six smaller slots with a time line under each.
• Two desk-size feelings boards — two boards on one sheet, cut apart, for a folder or a second student.

The boards carry no pictures, so they print the same in color or black and white.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the board's slots and time lines, the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The chart and card pages print on cardstock or plain paper; the cards cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a way for a student to name a feeling in pictures, and for that check-in to be written down. It is not a behavior plan, a clinical finding, a screening tool or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; it does not say why a feeling was chosen or what to do about it — how the chart is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. The log counts one thing: which feeling was named.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals building feelings vocabulary with early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is the fourth set in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside First-Then Board and Activity Picture Cards and Break Cards and Choice Board; more picture-card sets — calm-down cards, schedule cards, choice boards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.