Social emotional Resources

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

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: 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

Emoji Emotions

Emoji Emotions

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

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Five-Finger Relaxation

Five-Finger Relaxation

Tracing is a great technique for clearing your mind and relaxing. Help your students learn how to calm themselves down and clear their minds with by tracing their hands.

2nd grade

Activity

Design Your Own Emoji

Word Bank: Emotion Charades

Design Your Own Emoji

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

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Learn Self-Awareness Through Deep Relaxation

Word Bank: Emotion Charades

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Working with Difficult Emotions

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: The Present Moment

Working with Difficult Emotions

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

2nd grade

Worksheet

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

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

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

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

Fill Your Bucket

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

Fill Your Bucket

Are you a bucket filler? Children with good social skills lift each other up with compliments and praise, instead of put downs and negative comments. Use this lesson to teach your students about bucket filling and how to compliment others.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

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

Make Peace Rocks

Make Peace Rocks

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.

4th grade

Activity

Just Like Me

Mindfulness: Mindful Listening

Just Like Me

This worksheet helps students reflect on the “just like me” practice of building empathy.

4th grade

Worksheet

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

Emotion Charades

My Internal Weather Report

Emotion Charades

Help your ELs practice identifying how their peers are feeling to develop emotions vocabulary and support comprehension. It can be used as a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Mindfulness: Deep Relaxation

My Internal Weather Report

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

2nd grade

Worksheet

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

Practice Mindful Eating