This lapbook is designed to be a SEL tool to help provide students with helpful visual supports to assist with self-regulation, behavior, coping with stress, staying calm, identifying emotions, reducing anger and emotional and behavioral control.The lapbook provides visuals that allow students to ef...
Are you looking for fresh intervention ideas? This flipbook is packed full of easy to implement positive behavior supports and interventions. You will find a brief overview of the ABC's (antecedent - behavior - consequence), how to determine the function of behavior, and specific interventions to address each function (sensory, escape, attention, and tangible/obtain) of behavior. There are 2 versions of the flipbook. Version 1 is a half page version that provides quick access to intervention ideas. It is perfect for paraeducators and support staff to keep on hand. Version 2 is full sized and contains an extra tab for data collection. You will also find two versions of behavior tracking data collection sheets included in the download. The easy checkbox format makes it a breeze to track and analyze student behavior. Are you interested in seeing more? Download the preview for a peek at the US version of the flip books or check out the preview video. Have you used this resource in your classroom? If so, let me know! I love to hear about how teachers are using my resources. You can send me an email at [email protected] or tag me on Instagram.
Integrating social and emotional learning across the curriculum helps make a safe learning environment.
Learn how to create a safe place or cozy corner for your little learners that are experiencing big emotions.
Self-care activities for kids has never been more important! This self-care corner is perfect for any classroom or corner in your home.
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The first step in any discipline encounter is to take a deep, calming breath. Three deep breaths shut off the fight or flight response in the body. This
This visual choice board is a simple social emotional learning resource for your special education or inclusion classroom. Providing students with this handy file folder visual support may allow them to express their needs without having to find the words. While this visual was designed for students with autism, it can be beneficial for any struggling students. Even verbal students can have trouble retrieving the words or articulating what they need. Offering this simple visual can aid a student in saying "I feel confused. I need help" or "I feel frustrated. I need a break." Contents: 6 pages of feelings cards 15 feelings in a variety of image options 1 page of needs Sentence starters File folder labels Prep instructions Suggestions for use Savings Alert! This is part of a larger bundle. Check it out here and get all of my visual supports at a discount! This is not meant to be a choice board for 'wants' which is why toys, computer, iPad etc is not provided. Rather this is a support to use when a student is struggling, overstimulated, frustrated, overwhelmed, sick, upset, tired, confused etc. Teachers, paras, aides and therapists who have built a relationship with a student can often guess what the student feels and needs in these moments. However, responding to an outburst, problem behavior or non-compliance with what they are likely looking for reinforces an improper way to request those things. This visual support can help students learn to ask appropriately! ⭐ Teachers like you love this resource ⭐ This resource was a great addition to the communication support I use for my students. I was able to choose a few options at a time for them to choose from and the product comes with many pictures for wants/needs. I love this resource! This has been super helpful with SEL learning and helping kiddos identify what they need and avoiding meltdown. It was easy to put together and it has been a great addition to my classroom! This has been great for my non-verbal and limited verbal to express their needs! The choices are great and it makes a perfect connection between feelings and needs. As we move toward more and more SEL practices, this resource is great at helping students identify how they are feeling and what they can do to help themselves. Please note: This is a digital download. You will download, print, and prep as needed. No physical items will be sent to you.
Learn how to create a safe place or cozy corner for your little learners that are experiencing big emotions.
Teachers love using our trauma sensitive Calm Down Corner as a classroom management tool, helping students to self-regulate, get calm & focus.
“When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not to join their chaos.” -I. R. Knost I love this quote! It reminds me how important it is fo…
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Learn how to create a safe place or cozy corner for your little learners that are experiencing big emotions.
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Create a safe place in your classroom with a cool down box. This little place can help students self regulate and reflect on their big emotions.
Problem Solving Solutions posters and techniques support your students to solve their own problems and collaborate and play with others! Problem solving is a skill we need to teach just like we need to teach letters and sounds. It takes lots of practice and visual supports. Included are 16 techniques problem solving solutions (aka conflict resolution strategies) appropriate for little learners. You can use all of the problem solving solutions or choose the ones you think will best fit your class. You will also find 6 pages of teacher tips filled with ideas to teach and support the problem solving solutions. These problem solving solutions build students character and is an easy way to teach conflict resolution in your early childhood classroom. This has been developed for preschool, pre-k, tk, kindergarten, and first grade. This is included in my Social Skills (SEL) & Character Education Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten! Buy the bundle and save over 20%! Problem Solving Solutions Examples: Get Help, Play with Someone New, Ask, Share, Walk Away Included: • Parent Letter to strengthen the home-school connection • Small Problem Solving Solutions Posters & Covers (12 to a page) • Medium Problem Solving Solutions Posters & Covers (4 to a page) • Large Problem Solving Solutions Posters & Covers (1 to a page) • Header in 3 Sizes: I Can Solve Problems! • Header in 3 Sizes: What Can I Do If I Have A Problem? • Header in 3 Sizes: Problem Solving Solutions • Problem Solver Song Poster • Book List Teacher Tips Pages with Real Classroom Photographs: • How to Introduce • Making Mini Books & Problem Solving Solutions Necklaces • Problem Solving Solutions Poster & Safe Place • Utilizing Class Meetings • Practice, Practice, Practice (fun ways to practice the solutions) • What to do when Problems Occur • I Can be a Problem Solver Song Check out more Character Education & Social Skills units! •Red and Green Choice •Class Rules and Circle Time Rules •Problem Solving Solutions •Feelings and Emotions •Hand Washing Book & Routine •Clean Up Routine •All About Me •All About My Family •Calm Down Techniques •Fire Drill Book and Routine •Safety Drills Books and Routines (Earthquake Drill, Tornado Drill, & Intruder Drill) •Playground & Recess Rules •Art Easel Routine • Lunch and Snack Time Routine •Book Care •Line Up and Hallway Routine •How to Be a Friend •Arrival and Dismissal Editable Routine •Going to the Bathroom Book & Routine •I Am Thankful •Helping and Giving Click the ★green star★ at the top of my store to follow me to receive 50% off all new products for the first 24 hours a new product is posted! Visit my store Pocket of Preschool Let’s Connect! → My Website → Facebook → Pinterest → Instagram → Newsletter Sign up for my newsletter and you will receive a HUGE family theme writing center filled with word cards, writing paper, write the room, a teacher page with tons of ideas on how to use it the classroom, and real photos of it in action in a classroom for FREE! Terms of Use Pocket of Preschool™️. By purchasing and/or downloading this electronic file, you agree to the following terms. For personal use/single classroom use only. No part of this document may be distributed, posted on the internet, copied, edited, or resold. ALL contents of this document are under copyright protection, including all content, text, fonts, and graphics. Thank you for respecting my hard word as well as the hard work of the artists whose work helped create this product. To purchase additional licenses, select to purchased additional licenses at checkout or go to “my purchases”, select the item, and click “buy additional licenses”. Did you know there are TPT School Accounts? Tell your administrator and ask if your school will purchase this for your classroom.
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This set of ABC themed calm down cards contains 26 cards designed to give your kids the tools and strategies they need to help them regulate their bodies. Each card features a colorful letter of the alphabet alongside a coping skill suggestion based on that letter. A set of blank cards are also included so you can customize the cards, if needed.**This is a digital product that you can download immediately after purchase.**
Replacement Behavior for Hitting- tips to change behavior for students with Autism and in LIFE Skills. Includes FREE Printable guide.
Track student behavior the quick, efficient way: use a checklist. Free, editable trackers can be used to document and graph behaviors.
One may think once a student’s behavior is over you’re in the clear. Let’s face it you’re probably feeling exhausted, stressed and do you really want to
Sometimes when students have an inappropriate response to events that are out of their control, they need time and a safe space to process what happened. Enter Antarctica: A place to go when you need to chill out! This blog post is all about creating a Take a Break spot for your students to self regulate.
First off, I want to say that I have the CUTEST darn class ever. They are just the sweetest bunch of kids and are SO funny! We've all loved every day of the week so far, and I'm so excited for my year with them. Oh, I didn't even mention. I have TWINS! :) Yes, two adorable, sweet, unique twins that I absolutely adore. The first day went well, I only had one person show up that wasn't on my roster, and 2 that withdrew so I'm at a total of 16 now, which is a great number. We did lots of routines, songs, brain breaks, and books. We learned about ways to be helpful, made our safe keeper sticks, a class book, started our self portraits, and learned about mathematicians and scientists. All in all it was a smooth and fun day! Safe Keeper Sticks - Click Here for More Information On This The rest of the week has been going just as smoothly. One of my students that was on my roster didn't show up until Thursday, so that shook things up a bit, but our class welcomed her with open arms and are happy to have a new addition to the class family. To help build community and a sense of belonging in our class, we created our School Family Book that we keep in our class library. I read this as part of our morning meeting activity on the 2nd day of school. It was a fun way to get to know each other better. We also did All About Me bags which were GREAT! I learned so much about my kids and loved some of the creative things they brought in to show the class. Sharing our "All About Me Bags" We read the book The Way I Act then created a chart of ways to be helpful getting ideas from the book and from things they know are helpful in school/class. We took pictures of the kids acting the things out, which they loved. We made that into a Ways to Be Helpful Board which will stay up all year long to remind the kids, and we'll add ideas as we see things though out the years. Probably my favorite thing we do all year is our beginning of the year self portraits. It adds so much warmth, creativity, color, and uniqueness to the class. I love seeing their self portraits and this years class did an amazing job of really using the mirrors as they drew and painted. To start this process I model how to draw a self portrait and what to look for when using the mirror. I then have the kids sketch themselves with mirrors using only a pencil. On Day 2, I model tracing over my pencil markings with a black marker. I also demonstrate how to use water colors to achieve different colors, etc. I do this on my own self portrait and on a blank piece of paper. I let them go to town on theirs emphasizing it should be their own skin and hair color - not blue, green or purple….even though I still had two kids do a red and blue face..lol! On day 3, we cut out things that we like from magazines and glue them to the backgrounds of our self portraits. After that, we laminate and we're done! We will share these on Friday! :) Didn't they turn out AWESOME? I just love them! Not only do they make the classroom, but they are SO telling of their developmental stages. We're learning about mathematicians and what they do, the tools they use, representing knowledge, vocabulary, etc. On day 2 of we had a "mathematician tool exploration". I set up centers allowing the kids to explore, play, and use the manipulatives we will be working with all year. Doing this greatly eliminates unnecessary or inappropriate play with these later on in the year, and gets them excited to work with the materials. They did really well with this, with almost no teacher interventions. They're such a curious, calm, and sweet class! In addition, we learned about scientist…what they do, who they are, what they think and say. We explored the scientific method with the "Leak Proof Bag" Experiment from Steve Spangler. It totally stumped them! It was the perfect example of the process, and really got my kids excited to come up their own scientific questions/experiments. We then did Science Tool Exploration. This took a bit longer than expected so I had to break it up between two days. They explored safety goggles, scales, microscope, magnifying glass, stop watches, thermometers, rocks, and magnets. This week we REALLY focused on learning about the safe spot and how to properly use it. We started off by reading Schubert's Helpful Day from the Becky Bailey curriculum to discuss how to use our big voice and ways to be helpful if we notice a friend is in need. We then practiced the routines, acted out what it looks like when someone needs to use the safe spot, and created this book. We will keep this in the safe spot along with Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses. I read this book to them to teach them to always look on the bright side and see the magic in everything (we also have blue sparkly sunglasses in the safe spot to go with the book). This picture is amazing to me! It's so accurate! It was a long week but a successful one! Looking forward to seeing my kiddos again tomorrow! As always please leave any questions or comments below! :)
This behavior intervention guide is for elementary school counselors, MTSS behavior teams, or other educators who need help coordinating and implementing appropriate tier 2 and tier 3 behavior interventions. It provides information, intervention ideas, and tools to use when supporting students with behavior needs. The guide uses three different lenses to conceptualize behavior and behavior support: […]
Create a safe place in your classroom with a cool down box. This little place can help students self regulate and reflect on their big emotions.
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The Pathway 2 Success SEL Curriculum is a complete social emotional learning curriculum designed for elementary learners. It provides lessons and activities to teach critical SEL skills for the entire year. It is filled with over 180 lessons and activities targeting skills for building confidence, d
Do you have a calm down corner or area in your classroom? It’s probably well-intentioned space for students to go when they are upset or need a break. Kids might even use it effectively to self-regulate their emotions when they get upset in class. It’s important to give students a safe place to be sad. […]
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THE ONE-OF-A-KIND ANXIETY KIT - TAKE CHARGE OF FEARS AND WORRIES. Format: PDF Age: 4-11 Pages: 100+ I bet your heart breaks whenever your kiddo struggles to start a new grade, try out for a sports team, or go to a friend's house. You don't want them to suffer. But you're unsure how to help. Being a kid is tough, and the unknown is scary. For many kids who worry, it can be impossible to move from "what if" to "why not." And that's why we created this special Anxiety Kit for parents, teachers, and therapists. Introducing: The Anxiety Kit for Kids, filled with over 100 worksheets, posters, activities, and coloring pages designed to squash worry, anger, or big fears and bring fun and freedom back into your kiddo's life. Avoid that sinking feeling of not knowing what to say or do (or, even worse, saying and doing the wrong things) and take control. When your child's eyes light up because they finally feel understood and have a safe place to process these scary feelings, your shoulders will relax, and that weight in the pit of your stomach will lighten. WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE... 100+ pages of worksheets, activities, learning pages, quotes, and affirmations to help kids manage anxiety. 🔎TAKE A PEEK INSIDE... This digital kit will help: Raise your child's confidence with exercises designed to tap into positive thinking. (Think improved grades, relationships, and sports abilities.) Increase connection because you know exactly how to help by engaging in these exercises. (And you can use these anxiety-busting activities or worksheets over and over again.) Teach kids to live in the moment. Oh, magical mindfulness, how we love thee. (Think, taming screen time struggles.) Get your child talking, thinking, and growing with prompts and activities. Learn appropriate calming and coping strategies your kids can use not just right now but for the rest of their lives. Reframe nagging negative thoughts and flip them into positive thoughts. 💡IDEAS TO USE: Use at home, work through the kit in order, or pick a page and complete each week. Use in your classroom or guidance office. These exercises are great for SEL learning and make for great discussions. Use in your therapy office (be sure to purchase our commercial license). Here's the thing: Often, kids' tantrums or defiant behavior result from excessive worry. You might punish them for this behavior without getting to the root of why it's happening. It's like doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. If you want to teach your kids to master their worries, feel more positive about themselves and their lives, and interact more calmly and confidently with others, then the Anxiety Kit for Kids is a must-have! DID YOU KNOW? This kit Is included in the Mega Emotions Bundle. If you're looking for a comprehensive pack of emotional regulation resources for a steal, this bundle is for you! Please note: Our resources are for personal use only. (One home or classroom.) If you would like to use these resources within a practice you charge for, you must purchase the commercial license above. You may not redistribute these files in any manner, upload them to a public site, or share with other members within your organization. If you have questions about licensing, please contact [email protected]. This is a digital product. Nothing physical will ship.
This resource is a complete unit for helping lower elementary students learn and master conflict resolution strategies. It will help develop a more positive and peaceful class culture – and develop these problem solving skills crucial for our students’ lives! You can use just the slideshows for completely no-prep lessons, or you can use the coloring sheets or mini-book as extensions. The lessons […]
Create a cool down center in your classroom to help students process feelings and reflect on emotions. Grab a free printable to get started!
Item description Calm down techniques and strategies are so important in helping young students learn to manage big emotions. These cards are 1/4 page. They feature pictures and words to teach emotion management strategies and techniques. I use these in my calm down area by laminating and placing the cards on a ring. They are not limited only to that use. You can use these cards for teaching calming strategies as a large or small group. They can also be used for bulletin board decor. They would be a perfect addition for an All About Me unit or just the beginning of the year teaching about differences in people. All you need to do is print and laminate! The file is a PDF. It is easily downloaded and printed straight from your computer. If you prefer smaller or larger pictures, simply adjust your printing settings.
Teach students how to respect personal space, have a safe body, and keep their hands and feet to themselves with these engaging and interactive resources! ✅ This lesson includes digital for Google Slides™, PowerPoint, and printable activities. ⭐ THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES: ✅ An interactive digital for Google Slides™ and PowerPoint presentation. Students listen to a story called, "Harvey Learns to Keep a Safe Body" about a boy who struggles to keep his hands to himself and learns how to respect personal space. ✅ A safe body vs. unsafe body bag sorting game with 36 scenario cards ✅ A digital safe body vs. unsafe body sorting game with 36 scenarios ✅ A printable mini coloring book about respecting personal space and keeping a safe body ✅ Additional coloring pages and worksheets ✨ This lesson is aligned to ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors. ✂️ I recommend having 2 paper lunch sacks or gift bags of similar size available for the bag sorting game. ⭐ Like what you see? Check out my website and follow me on social media! ⭐ Follow Music City Counselor on Instagram! Follow Music City Counselor on Facebook!
Read about this easy SEL activity to add into your daily routine. It's so simple to implement for any grade level!
