Name: SEL Daily Check-In Journal – Student Reflection
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

This resource includes daily journal 'check-in' activitiesfor students to complete. It can be used at any time during the day, including during morning meetings, after a particularly challenging activity or incident for a student, or any time you see an opportunity to use it! It can be completed as a class or with individual students. There are various activities for students to complete, including reflections, coloring in and more!

What's included

Fifty single-sided journal pages, every one headed "How am I feeling?" with a figure at the left to colour or complete
A "My goal word for today" line on forty-nine of the fifty pages (page 1 is the exception)
Forty-one "Quote of the day" panels, each printing a short proverb above five to seven blank lines - among them "The first step is the hardest", "A man who chases two rabbits catches none" and "Delicious looking apples are sometimes sour"
Six emotion pages laid out as Looks like / Sounds like / Feels like webs: Happiness (page 7), Sadness (page 8), Frustration (page 13), Inspiration (page 14), Anxiety (page 15) and Achievement (page 23)
Three acrostic pages built on the words HAPPINESS (page 2), ACHIEVEMENT (page 3) and FRUSTRATION (page 12)
Left-column tasks that vary across the set: "Color me in" on thirty-one pages, "Complete the pattern (then color)" on five, "Create a drawing that represents ..." on seven, "Use your imagination! Create a drawing using the shapes, lines and squiggles" on two, and "Draw a pattern to represent happiness" on one
A different closing reflection question on each page with four to five writing lines, ranging from "What are three things that I want to achieve today?" to "What are two ways that you can let someone know you are upset?"
A copyright line reading "© Marybelle Music and More 2022"

Resource types: Activities

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Name a current feeling before the day's work begins, using the same figure prompt on every page
Set a single goal word for the day, and on the planning pages break a task down into smaller steps
Describe an emotion three ways - what it looks like, what it sounds like and what it feels like - across happiness, sadness, frustration, inspiration, anxiety and achievement
Write a short personal response to an open question such as "What are some things you can do to be an active listener?"
Read a short proverb and connect it to something in the writer's own day or work

Teaching tips

Nothing sequences the pages and none refers to another, so a single sheet can be pulled to match the moment - the anxiety web after a stressful test, the frustration acrostic after a fallout at break
Pages 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and 23 are the emotion-vocabulary pages; running them as a short block first gives a class shared wording before the open-ended prompts
Three prompts appear twice in the set, including "How would you feel if you were left out of an activity? What would you do?" on pages 4 and 9, which makes a natural before-and-after pairing across a term
Colour is expected on most sheets - "Color me in" appears on thirty-one of the fifty pages - so print in a way that leaves the left-hand figure usable
The quote panel gives lines but no instruction, so agree in advance whether students explain the saying, copy it, or use the space for free writing

Skills covered

Emotional self-identification - every page opens with "How am I feeling?" and a figure to colour or complete before any writing begins.
Emotion vocabulary - six pages break happiness, sadness, frustration, inspiration, anxiety and achievement into what each looks like, sounds like and feels like.
Goal setting - forty-nine pages carry a "My goal word for today" line, and prompts such as "What is a goal you have for this week? What steps will you take?" push it into planning.
Coping and task strategy - prompts ask what strategies help with a difficult task, how to break a job into smaller tasks, and how to let someone know you are upset.
Writing from a proverb - forty-one pages set a short saying above the writing lines, from "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will" to "A day without laughter is one lost".

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Can the pages be used in any order, or does the journal build across the fifty?

Any page can be used on any day. All fifty share the same four-part layout, no page refers back to another, and no dates or day numbers are printed. Only the six emotion webs and the three acrostics are tied to a particular feeling.

What goes on the blank lines under the Quote of the day?

The panel prints a proverb and then five to seven ruled lines with no wording of its own, so the space is open - students can explain what the saying means to them, write about how it applies today, or use it as free writing. The one fixed instruction beneath is the goal word line.

Which feelings does the journal name outright?

Six of them. Happiness, sadness, frustration, inspiration, anxiety and achievement each get a Looks like / Sounds like / Feels like page, and happiness, achievement and frustration return as acrostic words. Everywhere else the student supplies their own word at the "How am I feeling?" figure and at the goal word line.