Learn about the importance of SEL and 11 essential ways that teachers can incorporate social-emotional learning activities into the classroom today.
Learn about the importance of SEL and 11 essential ways that teachers can incorporate social-emotional learning activities into the classroom today.
Learn about the importance of SEL and 11 essential ways that teachers can incorporate social-emotional learning activities into the classroom today.
School counselors can use growth mindset activities with elementary students to help them stay motivated and persevere through obstacles.
When children are emotionally upset, it is a perfect opportunity to teach self-regulation. Managing their emotions is a skill they will use for a lifetime.
A great list of 25+ picture books exploring growth mindset. Perfect for elementary/primary age students. Exploring themes of perseverance, facing failure...
A teacher’s guide to teaching social-emotional learning in the classroom. This guide has articles, children's book suggestions, videos, and a program filled with lessons and activities.
Teach children about emotions with activities to identify, express, and manage their feelings appropriately in school with these tips!
Teach growth mindset to kids with children's books for the classroom, plus lesson ideas, activities, anchor charts, and writing prompts to help K-2 students thrive.
Children's picture books about feelings and emotions. These books will help support emotional intelligence, a marker of a child's future success.
A teacher’s guide to teaching social-emotional learning in the classroom. This guide has articles, children's book suggestions, videos, and a program filled with lessons and activities.
Another Kind of Hurricane by Tamara Ellis Smith, middle grade novel about boys from hurricane Katrina and Vermont
Do you teach growth mindset to your students? These new growth mindset picture books by Kobi Yamada are perfect for helping students.
A great list of 25+ picture books exploring growth mindset. Perfect for elementary/primary age students. Exploring themes of perseverance, facing failure...
Teach kids empathy and compassion through mindful, fun lessons, discussions, and activities that build social awareness and community.
A teacher’s guide to teaching social-emotional learning in the classroom. This guide has articles, children's book suggestions, videos, and a program filled with lessons and activities.
The perfect social-emotional learning activities for the K-3 classroom. Help students develop a growth mindset, friendships, and more.
Social-emotional activities can support distance learning at home. Grab your free copy of the SEL distance learning pack and editable calendar and children's book list!
Friendship-building activities help children in K-3 develop strong social skills. When relationships are an important factor in education, kids succeed in school and life.
Use books to teach socials skills such as problem solving sharing, friendship, conflict resolution is so important in the primary classroom.
This is a step-by-step instruction book on Animal Assisted Therapy activities for children that can be used in individual treatment as well as in groups. This book is intended for use by therapists working with children in a therapeutic or school setting. Each activity is designed with certain objectives in mind to target social emotional growth in children. It is important that a screened and certified therapy animal is used during the activities and that agreed upon guidelines are being followed with the licensing agency. Animals are living creatures and their safety is very important. Never bring an animal into an environment that is unsafe for it. Know the animals stress signals and make sure that it is in good health when they accompany the facilitator to therapy sessions. Never overwork an animal, as they don’t have a voice and cannot tell you when they are exhausted. Please review mutual safety concerns with the child when they will be working with the animal. In some of these activities, I have a therapy animal as an important part of the session, even though they are not listed in the actual conducting of the activity. In this case, the animal is accompanying the child and offering support while the child discusses their feelings with the therapist.
It’s not always easy being a kid. You are dealing with tons of emotions you can’t always understand. Kevin’s Big Book of Emotions by Liesbet Slegers helps youngsters explore their…
Discover 7 of my favorite books about tattling that you can read with your kids. These children's books are not only entertaining but also educational, helping your children understand the important difference between tattling vs.
Teach kids the importance of perseverance with these books that illustrate why staying with a goal, despite setbacks, can be so very gratifying.
Discover these 6 back to school read alouds for younger elementary classrooms. Students and teachers love these must-read stories!
The international bestseller that helps children identify emotions and feel more in control is now available in a picture book format. This concept book taps into both socio-emotional growth and color concepts in a simple, friendly way. Full color.\nUnpack feelings with color in this international bestseller that helps young readers identify emotions and feel more in control. One day, Color Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad, and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through color. As this adorable monster learns to sort and define his mixed up emotions, he gains self-awareness and peace as a result. Everyone will enjoy sharing this concept book that taps into both socio-emotional growth and color concepts in a simple, friendly way.
To spread the ideas in Sean Covey's 7 Habits of Happy Kids, I found a different approach with my fourth graders. While perusing online I came across Allison's Counseling Corner and a blog entry about how she used a biography to help students connect to the idea of being proactive in our lives. I liked how she found a book that showed the struggles and obstacles the character had to face in real life. I decided to read the book Wilma Unlimited written by Kathleen Krull. In this story we follow the life of Wilma Rudolph as she battles sickness, polio, learning to walk, criticism, and racism to become a successful 3-time Gold Medalist in the 1960 Olympics. After discussing the story, we began to acknowledge the differences between being proactive (focusing on what you can control) and reactive (focusing on things you have no control over). Using Wilma as a model, we could easily see how she didn't let the hardships get her down because she channeled her energy into herself. Students then thought of ways that they could focus on the positive in their own lives. What kind of things typically ruin their day? What control can they have in the conflict? What do they enjoy doing and want to do more of? What dreams and aspirations do they have? How do they usually respond to a problem and what could they do different to be more proactive? An example I provided was driving to work in the morning. I have no control over other people's schedules. I cannot make them get out of the way and get rid of traffic. Even if I honk, I still can't make them speed up or move. But what I can control is how I respond to the traffic. I can choose to not let it bring me down and frustrate me by leaving a little earlier from my house, turning up the music and singing along, and just enjoying some time alone. When we focus on what we have control over, we don't let other people or things control us. Students filled their ideas in the Olympic rings and drew illustrations to describe how they will try to be more proactive in their lives.
Turn crumpled pieces of paper into colorful artwork in this fun art project for kids. This easy art activity is inspired by the children’s book, Ish, by Peter H. Reynolds! The colorful paper has such a cool texture when finished and can be used for making collages or writing notes! (This post contains affiliate links.) …
Growth mindset, for good reason, has become one of the biggest buzz words and theories in education today. The concept comes from Dr. Carol Dweck's studies of
Inspire children to work hard, try new things, and set and reach goals with this Growth Mindset Lap Book. This lap book provides creative tools to help elementary school children explore what it means to have a growth mindset. Students will complete the Mindset Survey to gain insight into what kind of mindset they have. They will also reframe common fixed mindset thinking errors, develop an understanding of what different levels of effort looks like, reflect on growth mindset quotes and answer journal prompts related to these quotes. Additionally, students will complete a growth mindset flap book that asks them to identify their strengths and areas that need improvement. Students will also create a plan that includes strategies they can implement to strengthen those areas they identified as needing improvement. Detailed directions are provided to complete this Growth Mindset Lap Book with ease! This resource includes: Effort Meter: Children can use this effort meter as a visual reference to gain insight into the amount of effort they give while completing a task or assignment. (Available in color and black and white). Growth and Fixed Mindset Definitions Mindset Survey (w/scoring sheet) Fixed Mindset Phrases (‘What can you say instead’ activity) Growth Mindset Quotes and Journal Prompts Growth Mindset Flap Book How To Use This activity can be used in individual and group counseling, or as part of a whole class discussion. This can be used by school social workers, school counselors, school psychologists, and teachers. Thanks for your interest. If you have questions and/ or suggestions to better meet your need, don't hesitate to contact me at [email protected] For additional social emotional learning strategies and activities, please visit my website Kiddie Matters. You can also follow me on: Pinterest Facebook Instagram
Social-emotional activities can support distance learning at home. Grab your free copy of the SEL distance learning pack and editable calendar and children's book list!
Teaching growth mindset can be done with read-alouds! Rosie's Glasses is a great book for this. Get ideas for using this book to teach being positive.
Children's books about perseverance and determination that encourage growth mindset, grit and working towards goals and meeting challenges.
What is growth mindset? Use these free printable growth mindset activities to explore the idea that effort & practice matter more than natural born talent.
Today I wanted to share some of my favorite books to support your lessons on respect. Having strong read-alouds makes it so much easier to introduce and reinforce social-emotional skills. […]
Use this free growth mindset for kids printable book to encourage your kddos to keep tyring new things. It's full of easy to try growth mindset activities!
This post was originally posted back in 2015 on my blog and has been a popular post since that time. I worked for a decade as a family counselor and elementary school counselor before staying
Increase your emotional intelligence and awareness with this tool, the Feeling Wheel. Provided by The Gottman Institute and Dr. Gloria Willcox
