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Learn and rehearse calming/coping strategies using a Calm Down Strategies poster and matching student-facing visuals; play a Calming Strategies Spinner game (spin and answer a prompt about a calming strategy); practice guided breathing exercises using shape-based visual patterns (e.g. tracing a star, circle, or snake shape while…
Two students roll dice (down/across) to land on a stress-related question, discuss it together, then mark the square; aim for BINGO. Several squares have specific factual answers (e.g. naming stress hormones or the fight-or-flight response); most are open reflection questions.
Listen to teaching points and read-alouds, act out and identify emotions (Feelings Act, Stand Up and Sit Down, feelings song), practice deep-breathing and calming-corner strategies, use 'a bug and a wish' sentence starters to express feelings to peers, sort feelings into easy/hard categories, match pictures to feeling words, draw coping…
Students write and draw how they stay healthy, list healthy foods they eat, judge whether pictured brains/faces look healthy, circle unhealthy-looking brains, compare two students' mental health from expressions, cut and paste positive-mental-health faces, write about things that make them feel good, write coping ideas for feeling sad,…
Complete reflection and worksheet activities such as 'Bursting the Bully Bubble', 'Who is a Bully?', 'Profile of a Bully', a bully checklist, a comic-strip activity, and a 'What Happens in My School?' survey; participate in role-plays and group work exploring conflict-resolution options.
Use the linked 12-slide Traffic Light Feelings lesson to introduce Stop, Slow and Go language. Seven presentation slides explain the color framework and the activities. Students then discuss and sort 18 picture cards with a partner or group and color their own traffic-light sheet.
Listen to teaching points and read-alouds, play self-control games (Red Light Green Light, Freeze Dance, Statue, Simon Says, The Opposite Game, The Bubble Game), identify their own 'engine speed', draw themselves at too-slow/too-fast/just-right speeds, write a strategy they will try when their body goes too fast, and read/color an…
Trace and color pictures illustrating responsible behavior (e.g., walking a dog, cleaning a room/cubby, dressing for weather), identify emotions (happy, sad, mad, tired), and practice calming strategies (deep breathing, doodling) with a teacher-led answer/discussion page included.
Participate in a weekly small-group session (suggested ~10 weeks, 30 minutes, groups of 4-6): complete a feelings check-in, play a 2-minute game, learn and practice a coping strategy (e.g., deep breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, glitter jar, positive self-talk, yoga), earn a 'Worry Toolbox' button each session, and complete a…
Student writes down 5 coping strategies on marshmallow cutouts, glues them onto a cocoa cup image, completes the writing prompt 'When I'm feeling ___, these are things I can do,' and colors the cocoa cup and marshmallows.
Roll dice and draw matching facial expressions on a snowman while naming the emotion (game); match snowman facial expressions to emotion words; cut and paste emotion-word cards to matching snowman images; match everyday scenarios to the snowman face showing the correct emotion; complete a month-long journaling activity.
The summer colour keys pair picture sections with coping-skill labels such as talking to a friend, asking for help, drawing and taking a walk. Introduce a few labels before colouring and invite students to name a situation where one could help. Keep the discussion focused on possible choices rather than promising that one action works for everyone.
Identify current feeling (e.g. sad, tired, worried, scared, mad), cut out and use feeling cards, and choose 3 coping strategies to practice (e.g. fidget, bubbles, color, countdown blocks, stretch, drink, break).
Practice identifying coping strategies with spring color-by-code activities.