Understanding Feelings: Emotions and Character Responses for Class 1 

This thoughtful Class 1 worksheet helps young learners recognise emotions, understand feelings, and identify appropriate character responses through engaging, picture-based activities. By observing facial expressions, reading short situations, and answering simple questions, children learn to connect emotions with everyday experiences in a meaningful way. 

The worksheet supports early social-emotional learning while strengthening reading comprehension and thinking skills. With familiar scenarios such as losing a toy, winning a prize, hearing loud sounds, or feeling scared or happy, students practise identifying emotions and choosing sensible responses in a safe and age-appropriate manner. 

Why Emotions, Feelings, and Character Responses Matter in Class 1?

Understanding emotions is an important life skill for young children. For Grade 1 learners, this topic is important because: 
1. It helps children identify and name basic emotions like happy, sad, scared, angry, and excited. 
2. It builds empathy by understanding how others feel in different situations. 
3. It encourages appropriate responses to emotions and everyday challenges. 
4. It supports language development through discussion and comprehension of feelings. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five carefully structured emotional literacy and comprehension activities: 

😊 Exercise 1 – Look at the Picture and Choose the Correct Emotion 
Students observe pictures and select the emotion that best matches each facial expression. 

📖 Exercise 2 – Read the Short Story and Identify the Feeling 
Children read simple situations and choose how the main character feels. 

👤 Exercise 3 – Identifying the Main Character 
Learners read short stories and identify who the story is about while connecting actions with emotions. 

🧠 Exercise 4 – Draw Conclusions from Pictures 
Students look at pictures and answer “why” questions, helping them infer reasons behind emotions and actions. 

🤔 Exercise 5 – Choose the Character’s Response 
Children decide what a character does or should do in different emotional situations, building problem-solving and decision-making skills. 

This worksheet gently supports children in understanding emotions, responding thoughtfully, and developing empathy while strengthening early comprehension and reasoning skills. 

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