One of the best ways to teach kids about positive self talk is to focus on tapping into your Inner Coach instead of Inner Critic.
Kids and young adults need social-emotional skills to be successful at school, home, and for the rest of their lives. These are the skills that help kids build confidence, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, collaborate with others, navigate social situations, develop strong relationships
Children, just like adults, are prone to negative thinking. Their negative thinking can lead them to be avoidant, have meltdowns, get into fights, and take other harmful actions. The concept of thoughts can be abstract for children. Indeed, they are more challenging to understand than feelings and behaviors. When helping children change their thinking, make
Looking for a quick and easy way to teach your K-2 students about positive self-talk?Look no further than this 10-minute discussion-based mini lesson on "Positive Self-Talk". With a teacher-scripted time-stamped guide, your students will learn about building and maintaining positive relationships, r...
17 Tips to Promote Positive self-talk in kids: Motivate, replace negative inner talk and focus attention on all positives within them.
I work with a high schooler who (in honor of Thanksgiving) has a cornucopia of challenges in the social cognition, executive functioning, and pragmatic language realms. I am by no means an expert o…
When introducing or discussing growth mindset with young students I like to use the book The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper. The story illustrates believing in yourself, positive self-talk, & perseverance in a way in which young students can understand. Growth Mindset is a theory based on the work of Stanford University psychologist […]
In this no-prep positive thinking activity, students will learn to use positive self talk when faced with challenging situations and their own negative thinking. The printable worksheet and craft will help students create their own positive self talk phrases. The activity will show students that positive affirmations are a useful strategy to help them build confidence and persistence. This lesson and activity are perfect for students in grades 3 to 5. It can be used in the classroom, in small groups, or with individual students. What's Included Why Positive Self Talk? Positive Self Talk Lesson Plan Student Worksheets for Identifying Negative and Positive Self Talk Positive Self Talk Craft (Cut & Paste and No Cut Options) Positive Self Talk Printable Stickies
Children, just like adults, are prone to negative thinking. Their negative thinking can lead them to be avoidant, have meltdowns, get into fights, and take other harmful actions. The concept of thoughts can be abstract for children. Indeed, they are more challenging to understand than feelings and behaviors. When helping children change their thinking, make
Baditude by Julia Cook is the perfect story to kick off a lesson on positive thinking! This post walks you through a complete lesson plan with it
Positive self-talk cards with visuals can help our younger students develop a growth mindset. Add these mini affirmations to your classroom!
Have you ever been told you worry too much or are an overthinker? Do you regularly assume the worst case scenario? Are you having trouble falling or staying asleep at night due to racing thoughts? Do you worry others are judging you or that you’ll embarrass yourself in social situations? If so, then you may be experiencing symptoms of anxiety. This set includes 30 cards (5 pages with 6 cards each) filled with strategies and tips for managing symptoms of anxiety. While these cards include evidence-based practices, please note they are not meant to be a diagnostic tool or replacement for therapy. In this deck, you will find information about the physical symptoms of anxiety, coping strategies to help decrease symptoms, tips for logging your thoughts, ideas for reframing thoughts, ways to challenge irrational thoughts, and common cognitive distortions to help you become more self aware. These cards are great for middle school students, high school students, and adults who are learning to cope with anxiety. If you like these cards, check out my other listings here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheOGVegan?ref=shop_sugg. If you are interested in purchasing more than one, you may be interested in my mental health bundle: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1097152297/mental-health-bundle-anxiety-relief?ref=shop_home_recs_4. With this purchase, you can print these cards for your own personal use. Thank you for supporting my small business! <3
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Self-talk is the inner voice that goes on inside our heads throughout our waking hours. Positive self-talk is when we talk to ourselves in a reassuring, kind, and more optimistic way. It's the difference from saying to yourself: "I'm an idiot, I can't believe I failed this math test" or "I'm disappo
This Anger Management Poster was designed to remind students of different ways they can deal with anger in developmentally appropriate healthy and safe ways. What's Included: ☀️3 different printing options: color with frame, color without frame, and black and white. ☀️ 2 different styles ☀️ Files sized for 8.5"X 11" and 18"X24" printing. ☀️ Make Your Own Anger Management Collage Poster Ways to Use This Resource ✔ Hang poster up in your classroom or hallway bulletin board to remind students of healthy and safe ways to deal with anger. ✔ Use the Make Your Own Anger Management Collage Poster during SEL lessons about Feelings or during small groups and individual interventions when you'd like to focus on coping strategies and self-regulation.
Find Your Peaceful Place is a guided meditation and activity so that kids can imagine their own peaceful places. By using all of the senses kids can create a memorable peaceful place that they can …
Last year, my school started using CHAMPs as a school-wide proactive and positive approach to classroom management. For those of you that h...
An ongoing lesson in kindergarten is to tell how you are feeling and to try to get students to go beyond I was happy. It was fun. I went home. At this point in the year, I am trying to get students to tell more details. We made a strong feelings chart last week and now we are working on what the feeling looks like and sounds like. We played charades using our bodies and trying to guess the feeling. I love the book The Bad Mood! It is the perfect book to show feelings and have students make predictions about the ending. I know Showing our feelings are BIG ideas for kindergarten. This lesson is planting the seed for what good writers do. After reading, talking and acting out our different feelings, we began to work on a feelings anchor chart for the classroom. Our guiding question: what would a person act do or say if they were feeling ______? You will see that students worked in groups answering this question. After reading lots of feeling books, the students worked in groups on the sheet below. click here for the feelings sheets Showing Chart for Feelings
Dealing with Test Anxiety - Donut stress about the test! Help your students identify worries and learn and practice calming strategies and coping skills to deal with their test worries before standardized tests or any other upcoming tests. Your students will love the hands-on activities to learn test preparation skills, test taking skills, calming strategies, positive self talk and more in these worry group activities. Digital downloads included: Pre/post screening tool Teacher nomination form Parental consent form Counselor passes 9 highly detailed, scripted lesson plans that are easy to use! Lesson plans include objectives, scripted outlines, materials lists, and ASCA standards alignment Vibrant visual aids Fun games for students to practice their new skills Family letters for each session to tell families what students practiced and how they can reinforce skills at home Group completion certificates Sessions included: Session 1: Group Introduction Session 2: Recognizing Test Anxiety Session 3: Understanding the Test Session 4: Test Prep Strategies Session 5: Test Taking Strategies Session 6: Calming Strategies Session 7: Identify & Reframe Worries Session 8: Positive Self Talk Session 9: Termination Please note: this is a digitally downloadable curriculum licensed for one counselor only. If more than one counselor wants to use this curriculum, multiple licenses are required. It is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to email this curriculum, post it on the internet, post it on Google Drive (TM) or other shared drives for others to use.
Hey! Happy June! If you are following me on Instagram @myfabulousclass you know I just shared how I use Math Talks and Warm Ups to help my students build fluency in number sence, Addition, and Subtraction. What are Math Talks and Warm-Ups, you ask? It’s a 5 minute chat that you build into your daily ... Read More about Math Talks and Warm Ups
This is what I made today, along with a chart for each boy where I can cross off lost privileges and tally time outs. Anyone interested in these icons as individual jpgs? UPDATE: Thanks for your interest in the rules. Here is a link to the whole chart. Here are the individual jpgs: red talk nice, red treat, red mean words, red no treats, orange touch softly, orange be with others, orange mean touches, orange be alone, green talk it out, green be with others, green tantrums, green be alone, blue share, blue play with toys, blue take away, blue lose toys, purple lose tv, purple disobey, purple tv time, purple obey.
CBT activities and CBT worksheets are great short-term, effective tools for school counselors to use in individual or small group counseling. This resource is a three-step session plan with printable CBT activities, worksheets, and a counseling craft to engage younger students Students will learn to identify thoughts and feelings, understand how thoughts and feelings are different, understand how thoughts and feelings influence each other. Thoughts and feelings are an abstract concept for younger students. These hands on school counseling activities make it concrete and easy to understand. What's Included? 3-Step Counseling Session Plan Introduction to Thoughts & Feelings: CBT Story, Student Visual, and Student Response Slips Guided Activity: Negative and Positive Thought Sorting Activity. Students recognize how a negative or positive thought will change how they feel. 12 scenario cards, 12 positive thought and 12 negative thought cards Negative/Positive Thinking Visual Independent Activity: Thoughts & Feelings Flower Activity. Students connect how their thinking about a situation leads to feelings and actions.
Sammy Sloth is bringing you a super cute poster to encourage students to use positive affirmations every day. Have students choose one to repeat every day as they walk into your classroom or office. Get to know all of Sammy Sloth's crew by checking out his other resources: Sammy's Emotional Intelligence Activities and Games Sammy's Super Self-Regulation Kit The Book: Sammy Sloth's Unhelpful Thoughts (Printed Published Book) Sammy Sloth's Unhelpful Thoughts (DiY printable version + bonus posters)