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Practice elementary social-emotional skills through games, stories, reflection, role-play and hands-on activities. Help children understand feelings, build friendships, communicate and choose useful coping strategies.
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A complete 36-week, scripted Social-Emotional Learning curriculum for Grades K-2, organized into 4 units of 9 weekly lessons each, covering feelings, friendship, sharing, kindness, respect, listening, self-control, asking for help, problem solving, gratitude, growth mindset, and safety.
Includes: Part 2 - Student Pages Unit 1: Feelings, Friendship, Sharing (Lessons 1-9, ~87 pages)
A complete 36-week, scripted Social-Emotional Learning curriculum for Grades 3-5, organized into 4 units of 9 weekly lessons each, covering self-awareness, self-management, empathy, respect, bullying prevention, digital citizenship, goal setting, stress management, growth mindset, communication, teamwork, responsibility, and decision-making.
Includes: Part 2 - Student Pages Unit 1: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Empathy (~110 pages)
Help elementary students (grades 1-4) identify and name feelings, practice empathy, and learn healthy coping skills, using a dinosaur-character storybook and follow-up worksheets.
Includes: illustrated narrative story (~20 pages) modeling emotional triggers and coping strategies · emotion flashcards/task cards (happy, sad, angry, embarrassed, worried, excited, surprised)
A social-emotional learning (SEL) activity book for children ages 6-9, pairing an adult-facing facilitation guide (psychological safety, co-regulation, open-ended questioning, recognizing when a topic needs professional support) with child-facing activities for identifying and processing emotions.
Includes: 000-My Emotions Explorer SEL Activity Book.pdf (45 pages, text layer)
A multi-activity pack teaching elementary students about friendship qualities, social skills, and how to navigate friend relationships
Includes: Wanted: A Good Friend poster activity (2 versions) · Friendship Book List handout
Do you find that there are many complicated (and sometimes unseen) conflicts in your 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom? From conflicts on the playground to having miscommunication on group chat, pre-adolescents have a much more difficult time managing their social world than they ever did before. This curriculum on Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation…
Includes: Introduction & Methodology chapter · Chapter 1: The Architecture of Pre-Adolescent Conflict
Lesson teaching students that emotions vary in intensity/size and giving them tools to identify and manage escalating ('big') emotions.
Includes: lesson plan (objectives, materials, outline) · 4 worksheets using different visual metaphors (ladder, mountain, stairs, clouds) for mapping escalating emotional reactions
A social-emotional-learning curriculum for grades 3-6 using role-play scenarios and empathy-mapping worksheets to build empathy and social skills.
Includes: Phase 1: Core Content & Theory (introduction and pedagogical methodology) · role-play scenario activities
A 57-page self-regulation activity pack for K-5 students providing posters, visuals, a spinner game, and craft activities to teach and practice calming and coping strategies for use in whole-group, small-group, or individual settings.
Includes: Calm Down Strategies Poster (student-facing) · De-Escalation Strategies Poster (for the teacher)
A social-emotional learning unit teaching students to identify, label, and cope with feelings and emotions ('easy' vs 'hard' feelings), including calming strategies, combined with sorting/matching worksheets and two emergent readers.
Includes: teaching points page (easy vs hard feelings, 'a bug and a wish' strategy) · read-aloud book list (e.g. Today I Feel Silly, How Full is Your Bucket?, A Bug and a Wish, My Magic Breath, The Feelings Book, The Way I Feel, When Sophie Gets Angry, Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns It's Ok to Back Away)
A social-emotional learning unit teaching impulse control and self-regulation using an 'engine speed' metaphor (too fast/too slow/just right) and calming or energizing strategies, combined with self-control games, worksheets, and an emergent reader.
Includes: teaching points page ('brain bosses your body' framing) · read-aloud book list (e.g. What Does it Mean to be Present?, Listening to my Body, A Quiet Place, two Howard B. Wigglebottom titles)
A social-emotional learning unit teaching cooperation: what it means, how to practice it, and how to reflect on it, combined with an emergent reader and reflection worksheets built around the sight word 'can'.
Includes: teaching points handout on cooperation · read-aloud book list (e.g. The Little Red Hen, Swimmy, Frederick, Duck in the Truck, Franklin Plays the Game, Howard B. Wigglebottom titles)
A social-emotional learning unit teaching persistence and growth mindset (mistakes help the brain grow, 'I can't... yet'), combined with language-reframing practice, group puzzle challenges, worksheets, and an emergent reader.
Includes: teaching points page (keep trying, mistakes grow the brain) · read-aloud book list (e.g. Ish, The Dot, Beautiful Oops, The Most Magnificent Thing, What Do You Do With An Idea?, The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes)
A spinner-style wheel craft that gives students a set of strategies to choose from when they feel angry.
Includes: preset strategy wheel with strategies visible (drink water, read a book, talk to someone, squeeze/take a break, walk, draw) · blank customizable wheel template
SEL craft and coping-strategies activity: students create a turtle-shell craft representing personal coping strategies for managing difficult emotions.
Includes: turtle shell craft template ("My Strategies") · coping strategies prompt card (deep breath, ask an adult for help, feelings sentence frame, choose-a-number 1-8 strategy practice)
An interactive, personalized social story workbook ('My Big Feelings') that helps students (ages 7-12) identify emotions, especially anger, understand what triggers them, and learn/practice coping tools to self-regulate.
Includes: 'How to use this book' instructions with 4 classroom-use models (whole class teach, whole class reteach, small group, individual) · Full-page printable social story booklet (8 numbered pages: intro/self-portrait, naming emotions, what makes me happy, what makes me angry, anger escalation…
Teach students that it is okay and brave to ask for help when struggling with big feelings, using a superhero theme and a read-aloud mentor text as a launch point for a discussion and craft activity
Includes: background/rationale page on children's mental health statistics · mentor text summary/excerpt about superheroes coping with big feelings
No Prep Anger Management Bingo Game is a fun and engaging way to help students learn self-control, emotional awareness, and healthy coping skills. Since bingo is a familiar game, it's easy to set up and encourages participation while reinforcing important social-emotional learning concepts. I like using this activity during SEL lessons, counseling…
Help young students identify and communicate their emotional state and choose coping strategies to self-regulate (SEL feelings check-in board).
Includes: 'If you are not happy, how do you feel?' prompt page
Teaches young children a social-emotional coping strategy (a 'Stay Calm Plan') for managing frustration and flexibility in social situations, through a story about a frog and follow-up activities.
Includes: animated story file (.ppsx, 13 pages): 'Freddy Frog's Frustration Story' · PDF story and activities (59 pages, publisher: Socially Skilled Kids)
A two-sided SEL handout that helps students identify their personal anger triggers and practice calm-down strategies.
Includes: 'I Can Tame My Temper!' trigger-identification page (fire graphic) · 'I Can Put The Fire Out!' calm-down strategy page (bucket graphics)
A set of writing/journaling activity pages helping young students identify, name, and express strategies for managing a range of emotions (grumpy, sad, mad, frustrated, excited, happy, tired, embarrassed, surprised, jealous, and an open blank emotion).
Includes: present-tense feeling pages ('I feel [emotion] when... This is what I can do to help myself') for grumpy, sad, mad, frustrated, excited, happy, tired,…
A social-emotional learning packet for children with ADHD, combining an illustrated read-aloud story ('My Busy Brain') with matching worksheets on identifying emotions, executive functioning, and healthy coping skills, plus optional hands-on sensory/coping game instructions.
Includes: 1-page 'ADHD Additional Games' overview card (coping skills / executive function categories) · 49-page 'ADHD story worksheets' set: emotion ID cards, scenario-to-emotion matching, feeling word-bank fill-ins, weather/clothing matching, task-sequencing,…
A social-emotional learning lesson and cooperative board game teaching students that friends can have other friends without it threatening the friendship.
Includes: discussion/analogy slides · printable game board