2nd graders recognizing emotions with warm & cool colors

Prior to today I had been team teaching, but today is different. Today I led my first lesson with the 2nd graders. I started by reading the book "The Way I Feel" by Janan Cain. I had the students look at the facial expressions and the use of color as I read, then talked with the students about some of the more expressive pages. I had them look at the eyebrows, eyes, and mouth on these faces. I didn't talk about the hair, though it is very expressive in this book. The most important thing from them to recognize is the faces, as they will be drawing faces today that have different emotions. The color is important too. Warm colors with an angry face emphasizes the emotion, as blood goes to your face if you get very mad. While cool colors with scares shows you are trying to stay under the radar... or that "you were so scared the color drained from your face" can be expressed with toning down colors with white. Before having the students go to their seats, I went over illustrating these emotions on the Smartboard. I had students put "angry eyebrows" on a face and so on. Once every student had a turn, I showed them their handout. I told them that I expected them to draw two different faces with two different emotions. They needed to write the emotion on the provided space, select if they thought warm or cool colors described the emotion best, and describe a time when they felt that emotion. While the last wasn't always successfully answered, the faces were very fun to see.