5th Grade Social Emotional Learning Common Core Educational Resources

Foster self-awareness, gratitude, and stress-management skills with this social emotional worksheet. This three-page activity prompts children to reflect on the word "beauty" and compile a list of things they are grateful for in their life.

Children build their understanding of synonyms in this SEL-meets-vocabulary worksheet.

Children will create their own “best self” journal to log moments where they have been at their best. They are guided to find inspiring quotes and images, decorate their journal, and use the provided prompts to get them started on their journaling.

Help students practice seeing and understanding through others' eyes by participating in scenarios that illustrate different points of view. Students will work in groups to understand and discuss the differing perspectives that arise in difficult situatio

Use the Mentors: Mindfulness of Anger worksheet to have students teach others how mindfulness can help them cope with anger.

Children will select from a word bank of descriptive emotion words to write about their feelings, then use them to create a unique word search puzzle.

Help students tune into their emotions by writing their own haiku poem. First, kids will learn a bit about haikus and read a sample. Then, they'll brainstorm a list of words related to emotions before drafting their own emotions haiku.

Help your child write a children’s book about the power of living with integrity! Students will draft a short story about someone who embodies integrity and how their actions impacted those around them, then turn it into a children's book.

Use the Teaching Others to STOP worksheet to introduce students to the STOP mindfulness method, then have them creatively teach STOP to someone else.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, fourth- and fifth-grade students will brainstorm their strengths and talents to create a chain using pieces of paper, highlighting their gifts on each link of the chain.

Use this worksheet to have students create a Mindfulness of Senses Video, in which they will define mindfulness and explain some of its benefits.

Use the Food Conservation Poster worksheet to get students to create a poster including statistics about food waste and the importance of food conservation.

Use the My Growth worksheet to have students reflect on their growth over the past year, considering how mindfulness has supported their development.

Peace is a word you may have heard thousands of times in books and movies, but what does peace mean to you? Have your child brainstorm their ideas and then write an acrostic poem and draw a picture or symbol that reflects their thoughts.

This social emotional worksheet helps students develop an understanding of the word "integrity." Students will reflect on what it means to be honest with ourselves and with others by keeping promises and making healthy choices.

Use the Care for the Earth worksheet to have students practice conservation for a week, then reflect on how small changes can create a big impact on the planet.

Get kids in the holiday spirit by practicing 30 Days of Gratitude! This activity is perfect for November, but can also be done year-round.

Use this STOP Rap worksheet to introduce students to the STOP method of mindfulness, then to have them create a rap or poem about the method's benefits.

Can you hear that? It's the sound of silence. In this mindful listening activity, kids are encouraged to go outside and spend some one-on-one time with the silence that exists in between sounds.

Use the Interconnections Poem worksheet for students to write a poem or create a video about our interconnections with nature and each other.

After reading the book The Sound of Silence by Katrina Goldsaito, students will reflect on several questions about how silence can build and support our relationships with ourselves, others, and our community.

Using this worksheet, fourth- and fifth-grade students will work in small groups to design their own peace corner activities that will help themselves and their classmates to calm down and relax.

Students will cut out all of the strengths that connect with them and their abilities and write in additional strengths in the blank chain links. Then, they'll cut out the strips and use tape or glue to make a unique chain of strengths all their own!

Use this worksheet to guide students through different connection stations where they will practice and reflect on mindfulness.

Use this worksheet to have students write a love letter to the Earth, expressing their love and gratitude for our giving planet.