1st - 5th Grade Social Emotional Learning Worksheets

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Your child will first send kind wishes and positive thoughts to loved ones by drawing pictures inside heart images. They will then follow the directions to design and make a bracelet for someone they love and care for.

Designed for fourth and fifth graders, this social emotional learning worksheet will get your child's creativity flowing while also helping them to develop social awareness and an appreciation for the diversity in our communities and world.

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!

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.

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

Use this worksheet to have students participate in an Acts of Kindness Challenge, in which they will choose and perform various kind deeds in their classroom and school.