Back-to-School Icebreakers after Winter Break (for Middle School)
a 90-minute SEL lesson for middle school students returning after winter break, designed to re-engage students, rebuild classroom community, and transition back to an academic mindset
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Back-to-School Icebreakers After Winter Break - 3 Lesson Pack
a bundle of three complete 90-minute SEL/community-building lesson plans for reconnecting students after winter break, one each for elementary, middle school, and high school
Back-To-School Themed Charades
Act out school-themed pictures while classmates guess the word. These charades cards give students a reason to watch gestures and facial expressions closely and take turns communicating without speech. The set includes 24 illustrated cards and an instructions page. Introduce the pictured vocabulary before play so students can concentrate on acting and interpreting each clue.
Be Kind Activity + Writing Worksheet
'Be Kind' letter-tracing/coloring craft activity paired with a short writing prompt about showing kindness to oneself and others.
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.
Beginning of the Year Escape Room
A growth-mindset-themed escape room activity for the start of the school year, combining puzzle-solving with lessons on reframing negative self-talk.
Beginning of Year Fortune Tellers Activity
A beginning-of-year icebreaker activity using paper fortune tellers (cootie catchers) with personal get-to-know-you questions.
Behavior Support Tool: RESPECT Interactive Book/Printable | SEL Lesson
How to use this book? Social stories are interactive books geared to teach students social emotional learning lessons. In these books, students become the main character of the story as they learn skills and strategies surrounding the SEL…
Best Behavior Basketball SEL Boom Deck and SEL coloring pages
Best Behavior Basketball SEL Boom Deck With Audio & Handouts This teaching resource mingles the excitement of basketball with enriching learning activities to create a stimulating, engaging environment.
BEST Preschool Songs
Preschoolers love to sing, dance, move, clap, and just have fun. This collection of Preschool songs is perfect for early learners to learn numbers, counting, colors, shapes, the alphabet, manners, and so much more.
Bibliotherapy: Children's Books that Train the Brain and Jumpstart the Heart
A teacher reference guide showing how to use 48 specific, named children's picture books (organized into six thematic sections) to address social-emotional topics with students, i.e. bibliotherapy.
Birthday Party Dramatic Play Set for Kindergarden & Grade 1
Dramatic-play (pretend play) center kit built around a birthday party theme, used to build oral language, social-emotional skills, math, and early literacy through role play.
Birthday Party Songs
Birthday Party Songs: A Versatile Teaching Resource The Birthday Party Songs teaching resource is a highly adaptable learning tool designed for various educational needs, from regular classroom teachers to homeschooling parents.
Bossy or Flexible SEL Game and Mystery Mosaic
Teach the social-emotional-learning distinction between 'bossy' and 'flexible' communication/behavior through a printable board-and-card game followed by a color-by-code mystery mosaic reinforcement activity.
Answers included
Box of Kindness Valentine's Day Activity
If you are looking for holiday crafts that are designed to let your students celebrate Valentine’s Day, look no more! This is a Box of Kindness Valentine’s Day Activity that will build confidence within your students and grow their…
Brag Bag Labels
These are Brag Bag Labels that just need to be printed. The descriptions are editable in case you need to tweak anything to fit your students' needs. This is a great activity to build classroom community.
Bucket Filler Bundle
A social-emotional learning (SEL) classroom-community kit built around the 'bucket filler' concept, teaching students to be kind to peers through displays, awards, nomination slips, and a bucket-vs-dipper decision-making activity.
Bucket Filler Class Booklet
A simple class booklet activity where each student contributes a page drawing and describing how they would fill someone's bucket (an act of kindness), building a keepsake class book around the bucket-filler SEL concept.
Bullying Prevention Month Bingo, Anti Bullying Kindness SEL Game
A printable bingo game teaching anti-bullying and kindness vocabulary/concepts (e.g. "Be Honest", "Respect Others", "No Bullying").
Cake & I Scream Book Companion SEL Lesson about Bossing VS Suggesting
Social-emotional learning (SEL) book-companion lesson teaching the difference between 'bossing' and 'suggesting', built around the picture book 'Cake & I Scream' by Michael Genhart.
Caring Song (MP3)
The Caring Song helps students learn how to care for others both at home and at school. This song is a great way to teach kids the importance of being kind and caring to those around them.
Caring Song Remix (MP3)
The Caring Song Remix (MP3) helps students learn how to care for others at home and at school. This song is a great resource for teachers to help their students learn about caring for others.
Carpet Time Songs: 5 Little Pups
Carpet Time Songs: 5 Little Pups Carpet Time Songs: 5 Little Pups is an innovative tool that can greatly enhance the educational repertoire of teachers.
Caught in the Act of Being Kind
A simple character-building/classroom-community activity encouraging students to notice and record acts of kindness by peers or adults.