Learning Social Skills with Fun Emoji Activities
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, there is more focus on feelings and emotions than any other time of the year. Depending on the student’s age, there are activities, worksheets, and conversations centered around feelings, friendship, emotions, and love for those around us. Cards and candy are shared. Classmates, BFF’s, siblings, teachers, parents, boyfriends, and girlfriends all exchange small gifts to show their feelings towards one another. This is a great opportunity to teach social skills- a key component of the ECC (Expanded Core Curriculum) to those students with visual impairments/blindness. Many students with visual impairment or blindness may need help understanding emotions, feelings, and facial expressions due to missed visual cues. Students of all ages and abilities really enjoy emojis in this current technology era! Young students use charts with emojis to express how they are feeling. Older middle and high school aged students use emojis on cell ...