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5th Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities

Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools. 

Managing Emotions

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Make Peace Rocks

Children will deepen their understanding of global citizenship and create a collage that illustrates all of the ways many communities are connected.

What Does It Mean to Live in a Global Community?

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Be Present with Mindful Movement

In this activity, students will create a peace treaty as a class and come up with guidelines for how they will manage conflict.

Create a Peace Treaty

In this activity students first send kindness to themselves and then they send it to others.

Sending Kindness

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

Find Your Feelings

Judgements assumptions about others can cause disconnect in relationships and communities. In this social emotional learning activity, kids will explore how to break through assumptions and create a colorful bracelet that represents unity.

Break Through Assumptions

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will participate in a mindfulness exercise focused on forgiveness. Then, they'll craft a Peace and Harmony Fidget Spinner to cultivate calmness.

Resolving Conflicts

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

Adults Can Learn From Kids

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

Live in The Moment With Mindful Walking

Children reflect on ways they have cared for themselves, others, and the Earth before building a garden to share beauty with others in their community.

Sharing Beauty

In this activity, your child will write a poem recognizing and appreciating the beauty inherent in diversity.

Loveliness in Diversity

In this activity, your child will reflect on and write a story about a person who has embodied integrity and honesty in their life.

Living with Integrity

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Seeing the Beauty in Small and Big Things

In this activity, your child will explore the difference between boredom and curiosity in building greater attentiveness and happiness in the present moment.

Curiosity vs. Boredom

In this activity, your child will explore techniques that support patience and learn to practice mindfulness when waiting.

It Takes Skill to Wait

In this activity, your child will use two powerful questions to investigate a thought and the truth behind it. They will write and perform a skit using mindfulness and these important questions.

The Power of Inquiry

In this activity, your child will design their own Best Self Journal to reflect on ways they have been their best each day.

Focusing on the Good Each Day

In this activity, your child will practice taking on the perspective of others and will generate ideas for conflict resolution at home.

Seeing Things From Another Angle

In this activity, your child will use mindfulness to practice staying as still as they can. Then, during a freeze dance activity, they will pay attention to the constellation of sensations and feelings throughout parts of their bodies.

Still Statues

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

Multitasking vs. Mindfulness

Children will reflect on the importance of performing acts of kindness for the Earth, hear a story about easy ways they can care for the Earth, and set goals to conserve more in their everyday lives.

Acts of Kindness for the Earth

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Painted Pumpkin Faces

In this activity, your child will watch a video about empathy and practice speaking to someone with empathy. They will also discuss how empathy supports living in a community with others.

Seeing and Understanding Empathy

Physical touch through tapping and hugging can be a wonderful way to regulate emotions. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will explore the power of tapping or hugging to help them calm down and relieve feelings of stress or anxiety.

Tapping and Hugs for Managing Strong Emotions

In this activity, your child will take a walk outside, listen to the silence in between sounds, and draw what the experience was like for them.

Listening for Silence at Home

In this activity, your child will reflect on one role model in their life or research one historical figure that has displayed perseverance. Then, they will create a slideshow presentation or poster that defines and illustrates perseverance.

Role Models of Perseverance

In this activity, work with your child to build a chain of strengths, highlighting their individual strengths and unique abilities.

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