1st Grade Social Emotional Learning Worksheets

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.

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

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.

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

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!

This worksheet guides your child to create a simple goal setting chart that will help them visualize the steps needed to achieve their final goal.

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.

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

Use this worksheet each night to help your child record one thing they are grateful for each day of the week!

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.

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

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.

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

Get ready to feel grateful! This mindfulness worksheet geared towards kindergarten and first-grade learners helps students to consider the impact that practicing gratitude can have on their lives and the lives of those around them.

In this worksheet, children explore what it means to be aware of their emotions, drawing inspiration from the turtle.

Using our senses to practice mindfulness can be lots of fun! This social emotional learning worksheet will help guide your child to focus on what is happening in the present moment by tuning into each of their five senses.

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.

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.

In this worksheet, children grow roots, branches, and leaves as they practice deep relaxation — then design a relaxation technique of their own.

Use these communication cards to support your child in choosing their preferred method of communicating with friends, family, and peers.

Write or draw one thing you are grateful for each day of the school week!

Reward your learner for good behavior, homework completion, and any other positive choices they make during the week using this space-themed progress tracker.

This social emotional learning worksheet includes one page for each letter of the acronym THINK, which young learners will decorate, cut out, and hang up to create a banner to remember to THINK before they speak.

This worksheet offers young students an opportunity to practice goal setting with reading words. Children will choose five grade-level words they don't yet know, set a goal, and track their learning on a simple chart.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners are guided to create their own kaleidoscope to remind them of the ever changing nature of emotions.

Help young learners practice setting and achieving individualized goals with this My Good Choice Progress Chart.

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.

In this fun social emotional learning worksheet, My Superhero Senses, students learn how listening can be a superpower.

Children draw inspiration from the butterfly as they practice mindful breathing, then design a mindful breathing technique of their own.