1st and 2nd Grade Social Emotional Learning Common Core Educational Resources

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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 this worksheet to have students write a letter to future students, offering support and guidance for the upcoming school year.

There are so many activities and talents that you have not yet discovered for yourself! In this social emotional learning worksheet, students will brainstorm activities they love and things they would be interested in learning or trying.

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.

Use the Mindfulness Cards worksheet to have students lead the class in a practice of mindfulness.

In this social emotional learning worksheet geared toward second and third graders, students will reflect on their needs, what matters, and ways that they may ask or request something connected to their needs.

Use the Caring Choice Board worksheet to have students complete two kind deeds in their community.

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

Use this worksheet to have students collaboratively create a leadership video that defines leadership and highlights positive leaders.

In this worksheet, students seek to define "restorative justice" in their own words and draw a picture to represent the concept. They then work together to generate a list of ideas to help implement restorative justice in the classroom.

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.

After reading a story about community, students will use this worksheet to create a mobile that illustrates and describes the many aspects of living in healthy relationships within communities.

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.

Use the Welcome All: Pen Pal Letters worksheet as a guide for students to draw a picture and write a letter to a pen pal who lives in another country.

Use the Quiet Place Poem worksheet to help students find a quiet place in nature and write a poem about their experience after reflecting on what they see, hear, and feel.

Use the My Breath as My Anchor worksheet to guide students through a mindful breathing practice, using their anchors to help them feel grounded.

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.

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.