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Eye Contact Approximation Activities
The Eye Contact Approximation Activities This is a comprehensive teaching resource designed to assist children who face difficulties in maintaining eye contact during conversations.
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Fair Play Activity Booklet, Kid Games; printable for kids, relay games, learning rules of game, Activity printable, Girl Scout Resource
Explore fair play through games, discussion, and shared planning. Activities address rules, teamwork, sports vocabulary, and different experiences of participation before students organize a field day. Choose activities to suit the group, and use the debrief afterward to connect what happened during play with fair-play decisions.
Feelings & self-awarenessCalming & coping skills
Feelings Charades SEL Cubes
A charades-style SEL activity using build-your-own cube templates (feelings cube, animals cube, blank cube).
Feelings & self-awareness
Feelings Memory Matching Game | Printable Emotions Cards for SEL
Help kids explore emotions through play! This printable feelings memory matching game is a fun and engaging way for children to practice emotional recognition, memory skills, focus, and social interaction while playing a classic matching game. Children flip the cards, look for matching emotion pairs, and talk about different feelings as they play. The…
Friendship & communicationWriting & reflection
Find a Friend Who - End of Year Activities
A social/icebreaker activity in which students interview classmates to find matches for personal-fact prompts.
Free download Feelings & self-awarenessFriendship & communication
Find Someone Who- All about Summer!
Students use two Find Someone Who grids to talk with classmates about summer experiences and interests for the new school year. They ask questions and record a matching classmate in the appropriate box. Model a follow-up question before circulating so the activity can lead to a short conversation rather than stopping with a yes-or-no reply.
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Floss Dance PE Game
A PE team-coordination game ('PE Puzzle Palooza Coordination Style') where 4 teams complete coordination drills, including performing the floss dance and jumping jacks, then compete in a foam-ball pin-knockdown battle to earn puzzle pieces.
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.
Free download Writing & reflection
Free Never Have I Ever...Kids Game-Google Slides
Product Title: Free Never Have I Ever...Kids Game-Google Slides Engage your students with this dynamic and interactive classroom tool designed to stimulate social-emotional learning in a playful way.
Calming & coping skillsFriendship & communication
Friendship Dilemmas Game-Played like Apples To Apples
Teach students to identify and choose appropriate strategies for resolving common friendship dilemmas through a card game modeled on Apples to Apples.
Friendship & communicationChoices & problem solving
Friendship Passport Booklet
The booklet combines an interest-matching bingo, acts of friendship, healthy relationship examples and conflict-resolution choices. Assemble it using the printing directions, then introduce one activity at a time. Invite discussion and personal examples without requiring students to share private conflicts.
Free download Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Friendship Themed Color By Numbers
A friendship-themed color-by-number card game that prompts students to discuss social skills questions (what friendship means, how to help/cheer up a friend, how friendships can end, etc.) while coloring in a picture.
Calming & coping skillsFriendship & communication
Game
A back-to-school bingo game for building classroom vocabulary and familiarity with common school objects, used as an icebreaker for early learners.
Friendship & communication
Game for a Game?: Games, Trivia, Folklore and Fun
Game for a Game?: Games, Trivia, Folklore and Fun Game for a Game? is an indispensable teaching resource designed to inject fun into the learning process.
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Get to Know Me Board Games - EBOOK
Get to Know Me Board Games - EBOOK This teaching resource is a fun, interactive way to boost communication and connection among students from kindergarten up through grade 6.
Writing & reflection
Get to Know Your Neighbor | Back to School Unit Day 1
A Day 1 lesson plan for a back-to-school/first-week unit in which students think, share, and begin writing about their dream job while getting to know classmates.
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
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…
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Good Manners Bingo Game Printable | Social Skills, Kindness SEL
Turn familiar manners into a listening game with 50 bingo cards and a set of calling cards. Students find the phrase you read, cover its space, and watch for a winning line. The included markers and directions support setup; between rounds, you can invite children to give an example of one phrase in classroom life.
Kindness, empathy & respect
Good Sportsmanship Activity Booklet, Playing Fair Activities, Educational, Girl Scout Badge Resource
Good Sportsmanship Activity Booklet, Playing Fair Activities, Educational, Girl Scout Badge Resource This beneficial teaching resource focuses on the development of good sportsmanship skills among students in middle school grades (Grades 6…
Friendship & communication
Gossiping or Venting? SEL Boom Cards
In this SEL Boom Cards resource, students will learn the difference between gossiping and venting. There are 24 task playing cards and 6 other cards that are explanation/introductory cards.
Grandparent's Day Activity packet
Need something fun for grandparents day? Here's a packet of activities that you can print, staple, and hand out to keep the kids entertained!
Friendship & communicationKindness, empathy & respect
Gratitude Bingo, Thanksgiving Month Thankfulness Kindness SEL Activity
Gratitude Bingo Game is a fun way to present ideas on how to show gratitude for the people, places, and things we love. It's an awesome tool to help our kids realize that showing gratitude is not only appreciated by the receiver but also…
Feelings & self-awarenessFriendship & communication
Guess The Emotion! SEL Game
In this product, you will get instructions and 32 different feeling cards that are a part of a "guess the emotion" game. Each group will receive a stack of cards with an emotion written on it.
Writing & reflection
Guess Who? – End-of-Year Reflection Game
This resource is a Guess Who? Game . This Guess Who? Game | Printable End of Year Activity is the perfect printable End of Year activity for your students to have a good time as the year ends, while reflecting about themselves and their…