Beginning of the School Year | Get to Know You SEL Activity
Build classroom community and social-emotional/communication skills at the start of the school year through a 'Boom Cube' get-to-know-you game.
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Positive and Negative Emotions Scales
A set of emotion-intensity scales (positive and negative) that helps students identify a range of emotions from mild to intense, understand emotional regulation, and communicate their feelings.
SEL: BUNNY Mindfulness Breathing Calming Activity
A social-emotional learning (SEL) calming/mindfulness activity where students trace a bunny shape with their finger while practicing controlled breathing to self-regulate.
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.
Emotionopoly SEL Feelings Game
Emotionopoly SEL Feelings Game Emotionopoly SEL Feelings Game is an engaging and interactive teaching resource for students in Kindergarten through Grade 3. It introduces various emotional concepts in a hands-on, innovative way based on the classic monopoly game. This unique tool encourages Social Emotional Learning, allowing children…
Dudley Dog's Frustration Social Skills Story and Activities
A social-skills story (with an animated slideshow version) teaching young children how to recognize and cope with frustration, using the character Dudley Dog's experiences with friends.
Back To School Story and Activities
A social-emotional story and activity set that helps young students process the transition from vacation back into school routines.
Editable
I Have Depression Social Story
A first-person social story that explains what depression is, how it can affect feelings/behavior, and coping strategies, aimed at helping a child (particularly one who is autistic or otherwise struggles with interpreting emotions) understand depression.
Apps., Books and Games That Support Social Learning And Skills
Do you struggle to think of good {and easy} games and activities to use with your students to support social skills? This resource contains some of my most favorite, easy-to-play activities, as well as books to read and apps. that address social skills.
Kids Yoga Stories: Breath-Calm-Connect Minipack
Give a compact, quick-use set of 15 cards (5 breathing exercises, 5 calming yoga poses, 5 partner yoga poses) for short in-the-moment self-regulation or connection activities.
Emotions Situation Task Cards For Identifying Emotions With Kids
Task cards pairing everyday scenarios with emotion labels, to help 1st-3rd grade students practice identifying and expressing feelings in response to situations.
RACE Writing Strategy Practice Worksheets - writing prompts
Give grades 4-5 students practice applying the RACE writing strategy to reading passages with mental health and SEL themes (companion set to a related mental-health-prompts product).
Cut, Sort, & Glue-Sweet or Sour Friendship Behaviors?
A one-page cut-sort-and-glue worksheet that has students sort short scenario phrases or pictures into two contrasting categories (sweet (healthy) vs. sour (unhealthy) friendship behaviors) as social-emotional-learning (SEL) practice.
Covid-19 Masked Emotions Activity
Give teachers a quick, non-verbal way for masked students to signal their emotional/comprehension state (confused, on track, confident) during a lesson.
Mental Health: How Are You Feeling?
An introduction to mental health literacy for primary/grade 1 students, connecting physical health habits (exercise, healthy eating) to keeping the brain/mind healthy, recognizing signs of positive vs negative mental health, and learning coping strategies.
Reputation SEL Scoot Game
Teach the concept of reputation (including online/digital reputation) through a Social-Emotional Learning discussion 'scoot' game
Editable
Life Skills Series: Bullying and Conflict Activities
Help students identify bullying and develop conflict-resolution and coping strategies through structured worksheet activities and teacher-led discussion.
Emoji Bingo Cards – Emotions Game for Class
Play bingo with emoji faces and labels for feelings, expressions, and physical states. A thirty-label reference, teacher call cards, and cut-out flashcards support the game. Review unfamiliar labels before play so students can connect a called word with the intended expression on a card.
Traffic Light Feelings – SEL Self-Regulation Lesson
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.
Social Emotional Learning Unit: Kindness Activities
A kindness-themed SEL unit combining a teacher-facing lesson handout (teaching points, read-aloud book list, videos, extra activities), a caregiver letter, and student printables including a bingo board, a drawing prompt, a writing prompt, and an emergent reader.
Middle School Survival Kit! An SEL Lesson With videos Handout
A 15-slide SEL (social-emotional learning) presentation of 'survival tips' for middle schoolers covering topics like conflict resolution, stress management, organization, and kindness, with an embedded fill-in-the-blank review handout.
'Encanto' Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 2 - 9
A full movie-study unit for Encanto (2021) covering reading comprehension, character study, themes, and cross-curricular tie-ins (social studies, maths, science, art, music, writing).
Answers included
Kindergarten Health and Safety: I Control Me!
Teach kindergarten self-reliance, self-regulation, emotional identification, and personal responsibility, aligned to the Ontario Health and Safety curriculum expectations for Kindergarten.
Getting To Know You Activities Pack
Getting To Know You Activities Pack The Getting To Know You Activities Pack is a valuable teaching tool designed to foster social integration and empathy in the classroom. It is especially suited for Grade 1-5 students, addressing specifically the needs of special-needs students. Strong ties among classmates contribute to an environment conducive for…