Social emotional Resources

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

Design Your Own Emoji

Learn Self-Awareness Through Deep Relaxation

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

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

Kindergarten

Activity

Emotion Charades

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

Fill Your Bucket

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

Five-Finger Relaxation

Mindfulness: Mindful Listening

Five-Finger Relaxation

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

2nd grade

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

Emoji Emotions

Word Bank: Emotion Charades

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

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

Practice Mindful Eating

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

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

Learning How to Listen

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

Sending Kindness

Elaborating on My Feelings

Sending Kindness

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

4th grade

Activity

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

Elaborating on My Feelings

Identifying and describing their feelings is an important part of the way children develop social skills. This lesson teaches your students how to identify feelings, and then elaborate on them by speaking and writing in complete sentences.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Sending Kindness Reflection Questions

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

Sending Kindness Reflection Questions

This worksheet helps students reflect on the practice of sending kindness to themselves and others.

3rd grade

Worksheet

Learning How to be a Good Friend

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

Be Present with Mindful Movement

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