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Feelings Conversation Cards | 16 Sentence Starters for Speaking
Give students simple sentence-starter cards to practice speaking about feelings and emotions.
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Feelings & self-awareness
It's Okay To Make Mistakes! Social Skills
Teaches that making mistakes is normal, how to recognize a mistake that hurts someone's feelings, and how to apologize using a STOP-LOOK-SAY method.
Friendship, kindness & empathy
Friendship Activity
Help students identify and sort behaviors/traits that characterize a good friend versus behaviors that do not.
Classroom community & SEL lessons
Apology and Forgiveness word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
A three-activity vocabulary packet (crossword, word scramble, word search) built around social-emotional learning vocabulary for apology and forgiveness.
Answers included
Classroom community & SEL lessons
Kids Yoga Stories: Animal Allies Cards
Animal Allies cards connecting children to symbolism and traits of animals, used as a reflective/social-emotional card activity
Coping, calm & self-regulation
Mindfulness
A distance-learning physical education/mental health lesson teaching students what mindfulness is and how to practice and report on a mindfulness exercise done at home.
Classroom community & SEL lessons
End of the Year Writing Activity
An editable end-of-year writing prompt activity ('It's the end of the year!') for students to reflect on their favorite book, friendships, learning, effort, memories, and goals for next year.
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Feelings & self-awareness
Emotions + Feelings Activity Pack
This is an Emotions + Feelings Activity Pack. Each of these activities are a great way to introduce vocabulary, name emotions, and match. There is a poster wheel with emotion words. There are emotion and feeling pictures. There are also flashcards - two words are on one side and a picture is on the other side.
Feelings & self-awareness
"How does she feel?" Emotions Activity
This "How does she feel?" Emotions Activity is a great way for your little learners to discuss and explore emotions. There are 2 JPG files that can be displayed or printed. One file is the girl's head and the other file are the different emotions/facial features. Students will learn vocabulary and more about feelings with this activity.
Feelings & self-awareness
What Are They Feeling? – Perspective-Taking Cards
Use thirty photo prompts to explore possible emotions and the clues that support an interpretation. The sets progress from faces to additional gestures and body language, with teacher questions for discussion and a slideshow version for display. Encourage more than one plausible reading and distinguish a thoughtful guess from knowing how someone actually feels.
Feelings & self-awareness
SEL Daily Openers/Bellringers | Self-Motivation and Self Discipline
Provide a structured SEL (social-emotional learning) daily opener/bellringer routine and week-long lesson built around the CASEL framework topic of self-management, focused on self-motivation and self-discipline.
Feelings & self-awareness
Sight Word Emergent Reader: Feelings Printable Booklet | "am" sight word
An emergent reader booklet giving beginning readers repeated practice recognizing and reading the sight word "am" in context, built around a feelings/emotions theme.
Feelings & self-awareness
Four Corners SEL Activity + 2 Emotions Crosswords
The download supplies two emotions crosswords with solutions and a separate link to the Four Corners slides. Preview the linked activity before teaching and review the feeling words students will use. The printable puzzles can also be selected for vocabulary practice.
Communication & problem solving
COOPERATION BEHAVIOR, Working and Playing in a Group, Differentiated Activities For K-5th
Social-emotional/behavior resource teaching students to distinguish cooperative from uncooperative behavior when working or playing in a group, differentiated for K-2nd and 3rd-5th grades.
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Classroom community & SEL lessons
Activities for Circle Time
Provide a set of circle-time activities for K-3 classroom routines or homeschool schedules, focused on art, music, drama, and social-emotional group activities.
Classroom community & SEL lessons
Sticking Up For Me, Social Skills Story and Activities, Featuring Girls, K-2nd Grade
A social-emotional learning resource (illustrated animated story plus printable matching version) that teaches girls in grades K-2 how to self-advocate: asking for what they need, asking for help, and expressing feelings, followed by skill-building activities distinguishing helpful vs. unhelpful self-advocacy strategies and applying…
Classroom community & SEL lessons
First Days of 2nd Grade Flipbook
A 'first days of 2nd grade' flip-book activity where students record facts and feelings about starting the new school year.
Feelings & self-awareness
Feelings & Moods Airplane Analogy Google Slides SEL Lesson-Includes Engaging Video and Craft!
In this lesson, students will learn about their feelings and moods using an airplane analogy. There is an engaging opening video that I self-made and published explaining the analogy of the student as a pilot controlling their feelings and moods with the metaphor of an airplane. The airplane represents feeling down or sad when it flies down into the…
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Friendship Pizza Activity
After discussing friendship qualities in a story, students connect those qualities with pizza toppings. They color and assemble a pizza template and can design an original topping. An optional step allows extra portions of a topping to show a quality they value especially highly.
Friendship, kindness & empathy
Keys To Friendship Activity
Teaches elementary students about qualities of good friendship through a discussion activity and a hands-on 'Keys to Friendship' keychain craft.
Communication & problem solving
Behavior Management - Stop that Blurting and Calling Out
A behavior classroom management resource ('My Mouth is like a Volcano') teaching young students self-regulation strategies to stop blurting out and calling out in class.
Friendship, kindness & empathy
Sight Word Emergent Reader: Friends! Printable Booklet | "we" sight word
An emergent reader booklet giving beginning readers repeated practice recognizing and reading the sight word "we" in context, built around a friendship theme.
Coping, calm & self-regulation
Self-Care Hyperdoc
A digital 'hyperdoc' (Google Docs-based) that teaches students about the three domains of self-care (social, emotional, physical) through reading, linked interactive activities, and reflection.
Feelings & self-awareness
Feelings: A Sad, Mad, Grumpy, Happy Good Time Gr. 1
Feelings: A Sad, Mad, Grumpy, Happy Good Time Gr. 1 Feelings: A Sad, Mad, Grumpy, Happy Good Time Gr.