1st and 2nd Grade Social Emotional Learning Educational Resources

A great tool for kindergarteners and first grade students, this social emotional worksheet will help children begin to understand others (friends, classmates, family members) and consider different perspectives.

This manners worksheet shows even the youngest child the basics of being polite and helpful. Try this manners worksheet to teach your child proper etiquette.

These self-regulation cards can support your child in learning how to deal with big feelings.

How do you feel when you're with your friends and family? Answer this question and more about feelings by filling in the blanks to complete the sentences.

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

Use the Emotions Are Like the Weather worksheet to help students understand that emotions are natural and always changing, just like the weather.

This social emotional learning worksheet guides young learners to write and illustrate three compliment notes: one for a friend, one for a teacher, and one for a loved one.

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

This Good Choice Chart will reinforce your child’s good choices while learning at home. Set a goal of how many stars they should aim for in a week to earn the reward, and look for opportunities to praise your child for making good choices!

Art can be a powerful tool to help people of all ages express and process emotions. This social emotional learning worksheet guides students to create a piece of art to express what they are feeling in the moment using chosen shapes and colors.

Help students make body-mind connections by creating an emotions body map! They'll use different colors to signal different emotions, then color in the parts of the body to show where they feel each emotion.

Help your child make sense of their feelings by creating an emotions wheel. Students will reflect on a time when they have felt each of the emotions listed around the wheel, then they will create drawings to illustrate those times.

Small acts of kindness can go a long way towards cheering others up and helping to build connections and friendships. To practice cheering friends up and lifting up others, this worksheet lets students choose between three kind tasks.

Use the Silly Stories: Mindfulness of Emotions worksheet to guide students to create a silly story about how their emotions come and go, just like the changing weather.

Being aware of your emotions can be tricky! This worksheet helps students tune in by taking their own internal weather reports.

With this social emotional learning worksheet, children will cut out the cards and then play charades with emotions to help them build mindfulness of emotions.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners will read through four different empathy scenarios in order to think critically about how they would feel if they were in the fictional characters' shoes.

This social emotional learning worksheet guides students to create an emotions journal cover to place on a notebook and includes a prompt for students to complete a drawing on the first page of their new journal.

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.

This worksheet will help support students to work with difficult emotions.

Use the How to Use Kind Words worksheet to teach students the steps to take in using kind words with others, then have them practice while interacting with each other.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners are guided to write words of support—love, apologize, accept, listen, breathe—on a the fingers of a hand to remind them how to forgive others.

Children will draw a picture of their current hairstyle in this creative mirror-themed SEL worksheet. 

How are you feeling today? Use these cards to explore emotion adjectives, either on their own or with our Mindfulness lesson plan series.