This FREE Growth Mindset sample includes 5 different growth mindset mantras. You will receive a poster and coloring sheet for each of the 5 included. Use these posters to teach children about their elastic brain, a fixed and growth mindset, perseverance, learning from mistakes, failures, challenges, and the power of YET. The Growth Mindset curriculum includes a FULL set of mantra posters + a variety of thought-provoking lessons, discussions, community building ideas, and tons of engaging activities. ♥♥The mind+heart Social Emotional Learning Curriculum for K-2 is available for a SPECIAL PRICE DISCOUNT. Get your entire year’s worth of lessons (40+ included) and activities to help young children to develop emotional literacy, self-control, and social competence TODAY! ♥♥ Check out the SEL units for K-2: Emotions & Feelings Self-Regulation & Self-Control Growth Mindset Relationships & Friendship Empathy & Social Awareness Kindness & Bucket Filling Respect & Gratitude Responsibility, Goal Setting, & Conflict Resolution Related Products SEL Book Companion Bundle Morning Meeting SEL Bundle Back to School SEL Resource Kindness Classroom Challenge Pack with Calendars Class Management BUNDLE Question of the Day Stay connected with Proud to be Primary ♥Never miss a sale or new release! Click the green star to follow my store! ♥Join our email list and get exclusive content and FREE resources. ♥Visit our website at Proud to be Primary for engaging ideas! Have a question or need help with a file? Visit the FAQs section, submit a help ticket, or ask a question on the Q& A tab before leaving feedback. Please ask all questions before purchasing. Terms of Use: This product is licensed for single classroom use ONLY unless multiple licenses are purchased. Your purchase grants you a license to use in a secure, password-protected online platform (such as Google Classroom) with your students only. You may not transfer or share with another teacher or use it for commercial purposes (Outschool, etc.). Copyright ©2013 to Present - Proud to be Primary - Elyse Rycroft

This upper-elementary and middle school counseling stress management group teaches students how to identify and manage their stress through engaging and fun activities! This stress management group helps students use stress busters and coping strategies to manage and relieve stress. Students will practice skills like differentiating between avoidable and unavoidable stress, prioritizing, and creating a support system. This is a complete 8-week stress management group and includes outlines with weekly objectives and ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. This is a complete 8 week stress management group and includes outlines with weekly objectives and ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. Students will define stress, identify their stressors and will the differences between avoidable and unavoidable stress. They will learn skills for prioritizing, stress buster coping strategies, and how to utilize a support system when making a stress management plan. In the bonus session, students will learn the benefits of practicing mindfulness. The group also includes pre and post group self-assessments to make data collection easy! Group Outline Week 1: What is stress? Introduction Week 2: Identify stressors Week 3: Identify the cause of stressors Week 4: Avoidable vs. unavoidable stressors Week 5: Prioritizing Week 6: Stress busters Week 7: Support systems Week 8: Making a plan Bonus: Mindfulness as a stress buster What's Included Each Week: ↠ Group Rules: Suggested and DIY Group Rules poster so students can take ownership of the creation of the group rules and norms. ↠ Feelings Check: Feelings Check Poster to serve as a visual aid for students to self-reflect on their emotional state at the start of each session. ↠ Self-Assessments: Pre and post group self-assessments to track student growth and make data collection easy! ↠ Outlines: Weekly, easy to follow outlines with objectives to meet ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors. ↠ Games & Activities: A wide variety of games and activities each week including discussion games, dice games, card games, and beach ball toss. ↠ Journals: Weekly journal prompts for self-reflection Icebreaker Activities Include: BINGO game (includes 10 different BINGO cards) Sides of the Room Interactive Activity Circles of Control Interactive Activity Jumbo Sort and Paste Social Story Dice Game Charades Interactive Activity Discussion Dice Game Beach Ball Review Game Lessons/Activities Include: Stress Video Discussion Dice Game Flow Chart Flip Book Worksheet Toolbox Craft Role Play Stress Plan Bonus: Mindfulness Videos and Guided Meditation BENEFITING STUDENTS Each week students will learn stress management techniques they can use at home and school. In addition, they will improve communication and critical thinking skills and practice self-reflection. At a minimum, being in this counseling group allows students to identify and share their feelings, develop self-esteem through participation, and practice empathy while hearing others’ experiences. SAVING TIME With easy to implement outlines and activities, this group curriculum is very low-prep. Simply print out each session before students arrive and keep them in a file folder. For tips on how to organize your small groups, check out this blog post I wrote. The self-assessments are a great way to get students to self-reflect on their progress and you can then share this information with teachers, parents, or in your program report. Also, make sure to track your data and compile it into an end of the year report. Here is an outline I created to make it easy! Who is this Group Designed For? Stress Busters is designed for students in grades 4-7. Want a free sample of this group? 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Help students learn feelings vocabulary while brightening up your counseling office with these feelings posters! These posters are excellent counseling office decor, perfect for school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists. This resource includes 8 feelings posters with a choice of 3 different backgrounds, for a total of 24 posters. The feelings posters are color coded (green, yellow, red, and blue) to be compatible with many popular social-emotional learning curricula. Feelings include: Green posters: •relaxed, shy, carefree, content, caring, delighted, breezy, hopeful, comfortable, merry, happy, joyful, reassured, chill, loved, peaceful, sunny, at ease, confident, satisfied, curious, assertive, calm, grateful, glad Yellow posters: •eager, gleeful, thrilled, spirited, exhilarated, cheerful, courageous, animated, elated, passionate, jubilant, inspired, excited, overjoyed, enthusiastic, zippy, brave, passionate, energetic, daring, ecstatic, pumped, surprised Blue posters: •miserable, sad, rotten, embarassed, glum, down, disappointed, unhappy, perplexed, guilty, grieved, unsure, uneasy, lousy, blues, lonely, depressed, dismayed, bummed, confused, lonely, ashamed, discouraged Red posters: •crabby, angry, aggressive, livid, outraged, anxious, annoyed, enraged, cranky, scared, upset, frustrated, infuriated, jealous, frightened, afraid, worried, grumpy, aggravated, mad, furious, grouchy, irritated Looking for more ways to help your students learn about feelings? Check out these resources: • Counseling Card Game: Feelings Go Fish • Counseling Game and Feelings Posters: Changing Families and Social Skills • Introduction to Feelings digital lesson for Elementary School Counseling By following me, you'll be notified when I post a new item and you will receive customized email updates about my store. My new resources are listed at a discount for a time-limited period that you won't want to miss!

BREATHING EXERCISES for YOUR TRAUMA SENSITIVE CLASSROOM, CALM CORNER, DISTANCE LEARNING or HOME The Breathing Exercises for Kids Book, Task Cards, Mindfulness Brain Breaks and Posters is now also in Google Slides™ for distance learning social emotional learning support. These exercises will help bring mindfulness, focus and calm into your classroom or home. This resource teaches 15 different fun and effective mindful breathing techniques, reinforced with (adorable) illustrations that provide detailed visual support for all learners. Perfect for your Trauma Informed Classroom and Take a Break or Calm Corner space. For More Distance Learning Ready Breathing Exercises, check out: Digital Mindfulness Breathing Exercises & Video SEL Lesson for Distance Learning Self-Regulation Breaks & Mindfulness Breathing Videos for SEL Distance Learning WHY TEACH MINDFUL BREATHING EXERCISES? Mindful breathing helps us to feel calmer, more focused, and better able to make thoughtful decisions about what to do next. Mindful breathing also improves self-control, problem-solving skills, self-awareness, attention, memory, and even sleep (which we know is critical for child development and learning). Mindful breathing is a great routine educators can implement in their classrooms.  It hardly takes much time, is a quiet activity, can work wonders with transitions, and helps to shift chaos energy into peaceful energy.  When we pay attention to our breathing, and "breathe on purpose," the oxygen that we take in literally sends a message to the brain that everything is okay.  In other words, mindful breathing helps us to move out of a reactive state into a receptive state, which also means we are more ready to learn and can make better decisions in whatever context we find ourselves in.  How many times have we told young people, "Just take a deep breath" without really showing them different ways they can do this? This resource is a concrete guide to do such! WHAT'S INCLUDED: in digital format: ✔ Google Slides™ with and without Interactive Feelings Check-In ✔ PowerPoint File of each Breathing Exercise in printable format: ✔ Breathing Exercise Interactive Book (with and without tabs) ✔ Task Cards: Square and Circle Frames ✔ Posters and Checklists ✔ Reminder Breathing Bracelets and Bookmarks ✔ Breathing Exercise Guide Take Home Handouts ✔ Breathing BINGO Challenge ✔ Detailed Instructions ✔ Color and Black/White Printing Options IDEAS FOR USE: -Incorporate into morning meeting and transition routines. -Use as Mindfulness Brain Breaks -Use book, poster and/or task cards in your Calm Corner or Take a Break Spot -Hang 18"X24" poster up for easy visual reminder -Kids can wear their favorite breathing exercise on their wrist as a visual cue to help them self-regulate or focus when needed -Invite students and their families to practice breathing exercises at home...send home copies of the Breathing Exercise Guide and Breathing BINGO Challenge for homework -Use them yourself....when feeling stressed or overwhelmed (my personal go-to is the Ocean Waves; I use it all the time with my own very loud kids :) You May Also Enjoy: ⭐ Trauma Sensitive Classroom Rules, Values & Expectations: Editable Banner Decor ⭐ Our Classroom Calm Corner Toolbox ⭐ Feelings Check-In and Calming Strategies Choice Board ⭐ Self-Regulation Coping Tools Desk Reference Name Tags ⭐ Self-Regulation Coping Strategies Spinner Craft