Elementary School Social Emotional Learning Common Core Educational Resources

Children build their understanding of synonyms in this SEL-meets-vocabulary worksheet.

Help students make body-mind connections by creating an emotions body map! They'll use different colors to signal different emotions, then color in the parts of the body to show where they feel each emotion.

Help your child make sense of their feelings by creating an emotions wheel. Students will reflect on a time when they have felt each of the emotions listed around the wheel, then they will create drawings to illustrate those times.

Use the Silly Stories: Mindfulness of Emotions worksheet to guide students to create a silly story about how their emotions come and go, just like the changing weather.

This social emotional learning resource is a great tool to open up discussion around mindfulness, such as how to recognize and manage certain kinds of emotions and different feeling words that can be used to describe emotional states.

Your child will first send kind wishes and positive thoughts to loved ones by drawing pictures inside heart images. They will then follow the directions to design and make a bracelet for someone they love and care for.

After reading The Way I Act by Steve Metzger, students can apply what they have learned about making healthy choices by choosing and completing two activities from this choice board.

Help students practice seeing and understanding through others' eyes by participating in scenarios that illustrate different points of view. Students will work in groups to understand and discuss the differing perspectives that arise in difficult situatio

Use the How to Use Kind Words worksheet to teach students the steps to take in using kind words with others, then have them practice while interacting with each other.

Use this worksheet to guide students to perform a random act of kindness, then reflect on their experience and how it felt to spread kindness to others.

Children will enjoy reflecting on a few of their favorite people with this fun drawing and writing prompt.

Children will create their own “best self” journal to log moments where they have been at their best. They are guided to find inspiring quotes and images, decorate their journal, and use the provided prompts to get them started on their journaling.

With this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners will consider different scenarios and explore how making healthy choices makes them feel.

Get kids in the holiday spirit by practicing 30 Days of Gratitude! This activity is perfect for November, but can also be done year-round.

Get ready to feel grateful! This mindfulness worksheet geared towards kindergarten and first-grade learners helps students to consider the impact that practicing gratitude can have on their lives and the lives of those around them.

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

Great for building social emotional skills and self-awareness in kindergarteners and first graders, this worksheet will help learners uncover what it means to be true to themselves and celebrate the things they love through drawing and introspection.

With a tendency to focus on the negative, it's helpful to learn how to cultivate feelings of positivity, joy, and calmness. Children will practice seeing the bright side as a way to improve self-awareness, manage stress, and build social emotional skills.

Use this worksheet to have students write an Acts of Kindness Letter, in which they will thank and appreciate a member of their school's community.

Use the Mentors: Mindfulness of Anger worksheet to have students teach others how mindfulness can help them cope with anger.

Children will select from a word bank of descriptive emotion words to write about their feelings, then use them to create a unique word search puzzle.

In this social emotional worksheet, young learners will practice recognizing and communicating emotions by creating their own mood meter to use at home.

In this fun social emotional learning worksheet, My Superhero Senses, students learn how listening can be a superpower.

This mindfulness worksheet builds important social emotional skills while getting your child excited about helping others. This resource helps your child reflect on how they might feel by lending a helping hand in two scenarios.

Use the Thank You, Trees worksheet to have students spend quiet time reflecting in nature. Then, they will write a letter and thank a tree for all that it provides.

Use The Strength of Community worksheet for students to reflect on their interests and talents, and to consider the ways their diversity creates an enriching community.

Use the Friends at Heart worksheet to have students make a painting that highlights the qualities they observe in a good friend.

Use the Teaching Others to STOP worksheet to introduce students to the STOP mindfulness method, then have them creatively teach STOP to someone else.

Children will go on a nature walk and observe their surroundings, then write a letter to nature, in this two-page mindfulness worksheet.

Use this worksheet to have students write a love letter to the Earth, expressing their love and gratitude for our giving planet.