1st grade Social emotional Resources

Mindfulness: Mindful Listening

Mindfulness: The Present Moment

Mindfulness 101! Students focus on the present moment using their senses to observe what is happening right now. They are introduced to the idea that mindfulness is about paying attention to the present.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Mindfulness: Mindful Listening

In this worksheet, we listen like like an owl — and go on a sound hunt — to become more aware of the sounds around us.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Make a Calm Down Bottle

Mindfulness: Mindful Listening

Make a Calm Down Bottle

Do you need to help your students chill out? This activity will help your students learn how to breathe deeply, self-soothe, and calm themselves down.

Kindergarten

Activity

Mindfulness: The Present Moment

Mindfulness: Mindful Listening

Owls hear so well that they can hunt in the dark. Have your students try on their owl ears! In this lesson, students open up their ears to all the sounds around them, close and far away, and go on a sound hunt.

Preschool

Lesson plan

Mindfulness: The Present Moment

Children use their five senses to explore what it means to be mindful with this worksheet, part of our Mindfulness series.

Preschool

Worksheet

Calm Down Bottle

Calm Down Bottle

Getting too worked up? Use a calm down bottle to relax. This worksheet helps students reflect on how they could use their calm down bottle.

Kindergarten

Worksheet

Learning How to Listen

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

Learning How to Listen

In this lesson students, learn how to listen and practice community-building skills using the circle process. This lesson helps build community and establish norms for how students communicate with each other.

Kindergarten

Lesson plan

Learning How to be a Good Friend

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

We all have our own home of feelings inside, like a shell that we can tuck into when needed. This we learn from turtles, and now your students can too. This lesson helps students access that place inside full of feelings, emotions, and thoughts.

Preschool

Lesson plan

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

Learning How to be a Good Friend

In this lesson, students will learn how to be a good friend. The class will generate guidelines on friendship and create a friendship collage.

Kindergarten

Lesson plan

Growing Kindness In Ourselves and Others

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

In this worksheet, children explore what it means to be aware of their emotions, drawing inspiration from the turtle.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Mindfulness: Deep Relaxation

Growing Kindness In Ourselves and Others

Circle up! In this lesson, students will use the circle structure to explore how they can grow kindness inside of themselves and in others.

Kindergarten

Lesson plan

Mindfulness: Butterfly Breath

Mindfulness: Deep Relaxation

In this worksheet, children grow roots, branches, and leaves as they practice deep relaxation — then design a relaxation technique of their own.

Preschool

Worksheet

Learn Self-Awareness Through Deep Relaxation

Mindfulness: Butterfly Breath

What if you imagine your lungs as wings? In this lesson, a butterfly helps teach students about mindful breathing. Learn to use the butterfly breath in three different ways!

Preschool

Lesson plan

Mindfulness: The Outside and Inside Present

Learn Self-Awareness Through Deep Relaxation

Deep relaxation is a great way to create the conditions for learning by helping students let go of tension and worry.

Kindergarten

Activity

Mindfulness: Deep Relaxation

Mindfulness: The Outside and Inside Present

What happens when students explore their senses on the inside? This lesson encourages students to look at, listen to, and feel what is happening on the inside through practicing mindfulness.

Preschool

Lesson plan

Mindfulness: Deep Relaxation

Deep relaxation in school? Yes, it is possible! Through this process you will guide students to consciously focus on relaxing various body parts, leading to a visualization to help relax their full body mindfully.

Preschool

Lesson plan

Practice Mindful Eating

Mindfulness: Mindful Movement

Practice Mindful Eating

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Kindergarten

Activity

Yoga for Kids: Mountain Pose

Mindfulness: Mindful Movement

In this worksheet, we look to a deer to practice moving mindfully.

Preschool

Worksheet

Yoga for Kids: Mountain Pose

In this worksheet, Roly demonstrates the Mountain Pose. Kids can color in the picture, and practice this yoga pose along with him.

Preschool

Worksheet

Range of Emotions

Mindfulness: Mindful Movement

Range of Emotions

This social emotional learning resource is a great tool to open up discussion around mindfulness, such as how to recognize and manage certain kinds of emotions and different feeling words that can be used to describe emotional states.

Kindergarten

Worksheet

Mindfulness: Mindful Movement

Imagine wild animals teaching students to walk mindfully, and camoflauge teaching about stillness. This lesson takes a cue from animal adaptations as students practice walking and pausing mindfully.

Preschool

Lesson plan

Mindful Eating

Learning How to Practice Peace

Mindful Eating

This worksheet helps students reflect on a mindful eating experience.

Kindergarten

Worksheet

Be Present with a Mindfulness Bell

Learning How to Practice Peace

In this lesson, students will learn how to practice peace when they feel hurt or have a disagreement. These steps can be followed whenever conflict arises in the classroom.

Kindergarten

Lesson plan