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Free elementary school counseling resources
Positive Thinking Affirmations - 150 Self-Talk Phrases SEL Skills Activity
Use these 100+ free positive thinking affirmations and self-talk statements to help kids and young adults build confidence, learn healthy coping strategies, and start the day off strong. Positive thinking and self-talk is an important social-emotional learning skill necessary for success. This resource includes a 3-page printable list of positive affirmations and a student worksheet to record individual positive affirmations. Digital and Print VersionsI've included a link to Google Drive! To acc
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1st - 12th
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FREE Behavior Emotional Regulation Social Narrative
Behavior management and emotional regulation: A social narrative mini-book on how to handle frustration with calming strategies. A great way to discuss feelings and appropriate ways to express them!The one-page foldable mini book comes in color and black & white. In addition, there is a larger black-and-white version to fit your needs. Use the larger version on your device as a NO PRINT option!I would appreciate it if you left a rating and feedback for this free product!_____________________
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PreK - K
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Emotions and Feelings Check-In Worksheets for Social Emotional Learning
Use these free printable worksheets for daily emotions check-ins with your students. A daily feelings check-in is an important way to integrate social-emotional learning into the day, while helping students build self-awareness and self-management skills.Three versions are included with emojis, an emotions word bank, and clear space to add your own emotions words. Both color and black/white versions are also included.The prompts include:Right now, I'm feeling...I feel this way because...Somethin
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1st - 8th
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FREE Growth Mindset Quote Posters & Coloring Pages - SEL Character Education
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 activit
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K - 2nd
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FREE Accepting Differences Inclusion Social Stories Social Skills Activities SEL
Use this social skills story and these social-emotional learning activities to encourage accepting differences in your classroom! Accepting Differences Social Skills Story & SEL Activities is a perfect social-emotional learning tool for supporting kindness and inclusion in your classroom. Students will develop an understanding of the importance of accepting differences and be inspired by the examples of acceptance in this social skills story and these social-emotional learning activities.Thi
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PreK - 4th
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Also included in:Ā Social Stories Social Skills Activities Expected vs Unexpected Behaviors
Free Social Emotional Learning Check-In Journal | SEL Activities
This FREE Social Emotional Learning Daily Check-In Journal Sample Pack is designed to not only teach your students SEL skills, but also helps you to check in on your students' social and emotional wellness. Great for morning meetings, journal writing, and school counseling interventions. This resource includes 2 weeks of daily SEL check-ins and skills practice, sampled from WholeHearted's Social Emotional Learning Daily Check-In Journal Bundle. -Use virtually or in person-Comes in both Google S
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3rd - 6th
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Feelings Scales: Free SEL Activity to Help Kids Identify Emotions
Help kids identify their emotions with this FREE Feelings Scale. Emotion identification is not only the first step to self-regulation, but it is also a coping skill in and of itself.Choose between either 6 or 14 different emotions. Includes boys & girls, just girls, and just boys, in addition to color or black/white. If you are looking for more feelings resources, check out:ā¤ļø The Feelings & Coping Skills Toolbookā¤ļø50 Feelings Posters & Workbook
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K - 3rd
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Perspective-Taking Social Skills Lessons - Printable and Digital Activities
Use these lessons to teach critical social skills of perspective-taking to kids, including understanding perspectives, developing their own perspectives, and recognizing there can be more than one point of view in a situation. This resource includes two complete activities with an educator guide and lesson plan. These are a small sample of a paid resource and bundle that are listed below.Digital VersionA digital version has now been included for Google Classroom!Why Teach Social SkillsSocial ski
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5th - 8th
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Free Would You Rather Digital Spinner | Morning Meeting Activity Freebie
Your students will love this FREE Would You Rather Digital Spinner. You can use this spinner for both distance learning and in-person classroom morning meetings, community building, classroom guidance lessons, lunch bunches, small groups, and individual counseling. Fun ice breakers, writing prompts, and time filler!Digital Spinners are available in the following formats: WholeHearted Hosted (NEW!), Google Slidesā¢ and PowerPointā¢.If you enjoy this SEL resource, click here to find 24 more!
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K - 7th
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Executive Functioning Escape Room Activity
This free escape room activity is a puzzle challenge related to executive functioning skills. Students can work together or independently to solve a puzzle and discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. This escape room activity is ideal for small groups, advisory periods, morning work, resource rooms, or just for fun!Note that this is a free sample puzzle that includes only one challenge. If you are interested in more similar challenges pu
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4th - 8th
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Mindful Morning Check-In - Free SEL Activity for Mindfulness
Use this free poster and activity to encourage a more mindful day for kids and teens (and adults, too!). The poster includes both digital and printable pages to allow students to write in their responses if they choose.Students will:Slowly take five deep breaths.List four things they can see or notice.List three things they are grateful for.Say two positive self-talk statements.Name one thing they are looking forward to.Spanish VersionUpdated to include Spanish version as well!Why Teach Mindfuln
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K - 8th
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Social Stories For Behaviors: Hands, Feet, & Body to Self
This download includes 1 social story with a girl cover and boy cover, about keeping hands, feet, and body to self. Use as an in-class reminder, a take-home activity, or reminder after misbehavior! Story includes original hand-drawn clipart. I hope this product is as helpful for you and your students as much as it has been for mine!TermsCopyright Ā© Kylie The Creative Social Worker. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than
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PreK - 2nd
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Empathy Worksheets - Free!
These print and go empathy worksheets are perfect for helping students understand what empathy is and how they can respond empathetically to the feelings of others! These are great to use in your friendship or social skills lessons!Looking for more character education worksheets? Click here to check out my set of 50 worksheets that cover 25 character traits!****************************************************************************************************************************Ideas For Use:Em
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1st - 3rd
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Mindfulness Coloring Pages
The purpose of mindful coloring is to have students pay attention to applying color and design to help bring awareness to the present moment without allowing other thoughts, worries, or fears penetrate the mind.Ā Mindful coloring focuses the mind on a simple, relaxing activity which helps inspire creativity while reducing stress.Taking the time to incorporate mindfulness activities such as this, in your counseling program, can help create a calm and inviting environment for your students.Ā These
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Social Emotional Learning Journal Free Week of Prompts (Self-Awareness Skills)
Use this free Social Emotional Learning Journal to teach SEL skills! This free resource includes 5 journal prompts focused on self-awareness and helping kids understand their individual strengths and challenges. Note that this is a small sample of my Social Emotional Learning Journal for the Full Year.Digital VersionI've updated this to include a digital version for Google Drive. Students can type their responses for each journal prompt online!Why Teach Social Emotional Learning SkillsSocial emo
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4th - 6th
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FREE KINDNESS COLORING PAGES Superpower Affirmations Character Building Activity
FREE kindness coloring pages to help improve behavior and emotional wellbeing. Students color kindness quotes to help embed the positive character traits that build friendships and social skills for an inclusive classroom community. These 3 coloring sheets are samples from these coloring page packs:Kindness Coloring PagesKind People Coloring Pages Kind People Worksheets with a writing activity. The positive messages and images on each of them can inspire wonderful conversations about kindness, f
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1st - 3rd
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Anger & Calming Down (FREEBIE) | Self Management | Social Emotional Learning
This social emotional learning and social skills lesson on anger and self management will help students understand positive choices they can make when they feel angry. Anger is a feeling that everyone has from time to time. It is important for us to teach students the appropriate skills to calm down so that they can do so without hurting others, throwing/breaking things or screaming and yelling, etc.What is this?Let's teach student about positive calm down choices when they are angry! This is si
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PreK - 3rd
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Kindness Mazes - Kindness Activities - Free Kindness Week Activity
Kindness Mazes are great kindness activities that help inspire and promote kindness and a positive classroom and school community. Great for early finishers, or morning activity and addition to other kindness lessons and activities or kindness week challenges. Includes:9 Mazes3 Mazes with Inspirational Kindness Sayings3 Mazes with Kindness Challenges3 Mazes with Kindness Questions for Reflection You might also be interested in:Kindness Confetti CardsKindness Confetti QuotesPositive Affirmation M
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Ā Kindness ConfettiĀ® Activity - Kindness Quotes - Kindness Questions- BUNDLE
Social Skills Lessons for Conversations Free Lessons
Use these lessons to teach critical social skills of conversations to kids, including how to start a conversation, using conversation-starters, finding things in common with others, and keeping a conversation going. This resource includes four complete activities with an educator guide and lesson plan. These are a small sample of a paid resource and bundle that are listed below.Why Teach Social SkillsSocial skills are the abilities and competencies we use to navigate the social world. These skil
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5th - 10th
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Kindness Bingo #kindnessnation
This Kindness BINGO card set include 30 BINGO cards with 24 kind acts for students to complete on Random Acts of Kindness Day (or any day!) to create a more positive, supportive school community!
Please note: There is no master list of kind acts. This is not intended to be a "sitting" game. Students actually complete the kind acts on their own throughout the class and school community to build kind, compassionate citizens! I like to have younger students complete 5 kind acts in a row and retur
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1st - 5th
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Feelings Charts {for early childhood students}
Use in a guidance and counseling setting or in the general classroom to assist early childhood students to express their emotions through images.
Updated on 12/08/16 with writing prompts and new versions of the Feelings Charts!
Looking for more Feelings resources? Check these out!
Seasonal Feelings Charts & Writing Prompts
I've Got a Feeling {activities to help identify & relate to emotions}
Feelings Bundle
This is also included in larger guidance and counseling packets:
Don't Worry,
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PreK - 3rd
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Free Morning Meeting Slides & Cards - SEL Activities, Questions, Greetings
Ready to start morning meeting but don't know what to use or how to begin? This FREE week of morning meeting slides and printable cards will give you what you need to begin a daily morning meeting in your classroom, either online or in person. This free week of morning meeting materials is 100% editable and low-prep. It specifically targets important social-emotional learning topics. This free morning meeting sample pack provides you with a back to school themed resource that you can use to enga
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Social Emotional Learning: 10 Free Worksheets
Looking for easy to use materials that will help your students learn about and practice important social emotional learning topics? These 10 no prep worksheets are perfect to keep on hand for last minute lessons or when working with individual students. There are 2 worksheets for each of the 5 CASEL competencies: Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision Making. *********************************************************************************
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4th - 6th
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Social Emotional Learning Read Aloud List
Use this free list of read alouds to help integrate social emotional learning skills in the classroom. The printable SEL list includes several short picture book ideas for teaching skills including self-awareness, friendships, empathy, decision-making skills, and more.Literature can be the perfect strategy to help integrate SEL skills in the classroom. Doing it is pretty simple: Just read the book and discuss the SEL skills as you read! If time is short for adding SEL into the day, integrating p
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1st - 5th
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