Friendship & communication
Ask, Share, Swap! An SEL get to know you game and icebreaker.
An SEL icebreaker game to help students get to know each other, e.g. at the start of the school year.
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Awesome Icebreakers A-C: Activities to Bring Out the Best in Your Group
A published collection of group icebreaker activities (titles A-C) to help group members get acquainted and build team comfort through active, non-threatening exercises.
Feelings & self-awarenessFriendship & communication
Awesome Icebreakers H-J: Activities to Bring Out the Best in Your Group
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning H through J) for building group cohesion, self-awareness, and communication skills.
Calming & coping skillsFriendship & communication
Awesome Icebreakers K-P: Activities to Bring Out the Best in Your Group
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning K through P) for building group cohesion, communication and cooperation.
Friendship & communicationWriting & reflection
Awesome Icebreakers P-S: Activities to Bring Out the Best in Your Group
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning P through S) for building group cohesion, goal-setting skills, and positive peer relationships.
Calming & coping skillsFriendship & communication
Awesome Icebreakers S-U: Activities to Bring Out the Best in Your Group
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning S through U) for building group cohesion, problem-solving, and collaborative storytelling.
Feelings & self-awarenessFriendship & communication
Back To School Share & Swap
A back-to-school SEL 'mix and mingle' card game where students ask classmates get-to-know-you and reflection questions to build classroom community.
Calming & coping skillsFriendship & communication
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.
Friendship & communication
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.
Friendship & communication
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
Friendship & communicationChoices & problem solving
Choose Their Fate! Social Media Snafu Boom Cards
Choose Their Fate! Social Media Snafu Boom Cards Teach your students about the consequences of their actions within the context of social media interaction with 'Choose Their Fate! Social Media Snafu Boom Cards'.
Friendship & communicationWriting & reflection
Christmas Forehead Game (Print and Digital)
A guessing/questioning party game using Christmas character cards to build vocabulary, oral language, and yes/no question-asking skills.
Friendship & communicationChoices & problem solving
Circle Time Games
Keeping students engaged during circle time activities boosts attention spans, social skills and kinesthetic smarts vital for learning readiness. Yet thinking up new ideas day after day strains even the most creative teachers.
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Class Kindness Activities, Community Building, Random Acts of Kindness
A collection of kindness-themed activities designed to build empathy, social-emotional skills, and a positive classroom community through writing, crafts, and bingo-style games.
Friendship & communication
Classroom Cooperative Games
This resource is a set of Classroom Cooperative Games . There are 5 games printed 2 per page. Each game includes: - Equipment needed - Formation - Instructions
Friendship & communication
Classroom Interactive Game : Halloween Word Link PowerPoint Game
A Halloween-themed word-chain team game (modeled on the TV show Chain Reaction) for classroom entertainment and collaborative word-association play, run via PowerPoint slideshow mode.
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Friendship & communication
Claus-fit Christmas PE Activity
A Christmas-themed team fitness circuit for PE class combining strength, cardio, and teamwork skills.
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Compliment Jenga for Valentines Day: Responding to Compliments
Looking for a Valentines Day Activity that Helps students learn how to respond to compliments? This Jenga game will be the perfect thing for you! This Valentine's Day themed Jenga game is perfect for students to understand and practice how to respond to compliments and how to give compliments back to others! This will be the perfect…
Feelings & self-awarenessCalming & coping skills
Conflict Resolution Bingo Game Printable, Social Skills, SEL
Help kids learn how to handle tricky situations with kindness and confidence using this engaging Conflict Resolution Bingo Game ! Designed for elementary-aged learners, this printable resource supports social-emotional learning by teaching…
Choices & problem solving
Conflict Resolution SEL Quiz Show With Handout PowerPoint
A social-emotional learning (SEL) game-show style PowerPoint teaching and practicing conflict-resolution skills through scenario-based questions.
Answers included
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Friendship & communication
Conversation Activity, Responding To Others
Conversation Activity , Responding To Others: A Valuable Teaching Resource This invaluable teaching tool is a wonderful resource for educators looking to refine conversation skills in students from kindergarten through to grade 5.
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Conversation Behaviors Differentiated Social Skills Activities For K-5th
Explicit social-skills instruction to help students identify conversational behaviors that help or hurt conversations ("conversation makers" vs "conversation breakers").
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Friendship & communication
Conversation Land | Conversation Board Games, Differentiated Board Games
'Conversation Land | Conversation Board Games , Differentiated Board Games' This is an innovative teaching resource designed to enhance the communication skills of elementary school children.
Friendship & communication
Conversation Skills Activity Pack
Do your students struggle with basic conversational skills? This pack will help you teach and support your students many important skills needed to engage in successful conversations. Some of the skills covered: Blurting, Interrupting.