Feelings Wheel
Children who can name a feeling precisely find it easier to manage, and that vocabulary grows with practice. This wheel holds 24 feeling words, from happy, calm and proud to frustrated, nervous and disappointed. It is a vocabulary tool, not a way to tell anyone how they feel: spin a word, then talk about what it looks like, what might cause it and what helps. For daily check-ins, let students choose their own word rather than spin. Keep sharing optional, and add the words your social and emotional learning programme uses so the language stays consistent across the school.
How to use it
- The wheel is ready with 24 entries. Press Spin, click the wheel or press Space, and the result appears in the middle.
- Open Edit entries to change the list for your class, or press Use my class instead to spin your students' names.
- Press Present (or F) to show just the wheel on the board. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings if you don't want repeats.
Ways to use it in class
- Feelings charades: spin a word and a volunteer acts it out while the class guesses.
- Story feelings: spin a word and ask which character in your class book felt that way, and when.
- What helps: spin a harder feeling and build a class list of things that help when someone feels it.
More ready-made wheels
Questions teachers ask
Can I change what's on the wheel?
Yes. Open Edit entries to add, remove or reword anything, one entry per line. Your changes last until you leave the page, and Restore brings back the original list.
Can I spin my students' names instead?
Yes. Press Use my class instead to swap the entries for your saved class, with absent students left off. Press the back button in the same place to return to this wheel's entries.
Is every entry equally likely?
Yes. The result is chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator before the wheel moves, and every slice has the same chance. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings to avoid repeats.
Will ads show on my projector?
No. Press Present (or F) and the screen shows only the wheel and the Spin button, in large type for the back of the room.