3rd - 5th Grade Social Emotional Learning Educational Resources

Watch as students turn “growth mindset” into “the power of yet” by following the directions in this SEL word puzzle!

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

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

Students take emojis from text to paper, using them as prompts for identifying and reflecting upon their own feelings.

In this creative activity, students design and make a case for their own proposed emoji.

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

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 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.

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.

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

This social emotional worksheet guides students to reflect on moments over the past week where they were their very best selves in their communities. They will then fill in the "best self" timeline and draw a picture of one of those moments.

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

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

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.

This enticing worksheet invites students to envision a delicious pie in which each slice represents a different aspect of gratitude.

Reinforce your child’s positive choices and behavior while learning at home with this helpful Success Chart. Throughout the week, look for opportunities to praise your child for making good choices!

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.

After reading The Way I Act by Steve Metzger, students can apply what they have learned about making healthy choices by choosing and completing two activities from this choice board.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, children will seek to define the term "leadership," describe the traits that make a positive leader, and reflect on how they can be a good leader in an area of their life.

This informational worksheet teaches children that when they practice mindfulness, they are able to calm the amygdala and access their prefrontal cortex to make healthy choices.

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

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

Dig a little deeper into what it means to be grateful with the help of this gratitude graphic organizer!

When strong emotions arise, mindfulness can offer tools to manage those sometimes overwhelming feelings. This social emotional learning worksheet guides students to design a page for a "Mindfulness of Emotions" class book.

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.

By working through this worksheet, children will gain important practice seeing another person’s perspective and understanding how empathy can help to resolve conflicts.

Use this progress tracker to reinforce positive choices and celebrate your learner's successes! This fun design allows children to earn rewards quickly, which then builds their motivation to keep working hard.