1st and 2nd Grade Social Emotional Learning Worksheets

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

A great tool for kindergarteners and first grade students, this social emotional worksheet will help children begin to understand others (friends, classmates, family members) and consider different perspectives.

Children use their five senses to explore what it means to be mindful with this worksheet, part of our Mindfulness series.

This manners worksheet shows even the youngest child the basics of being polite and helpful. Try this manners worksheet to teach your child proper etiquette.

Use the Emotions Are Like the Weather worksheet to help students understand that emotions are natural and always changing, just like the weather.

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.

This Good Choice Chart will reinforce your child’s good choices while learning at home. Set a goal of how many stars they should aim for in a week to earn the reward, and look for opportunities to praise your child for making good choices!

In this worksheet, we listen like like an owl — and go on a sound hunt — to become more aware of the sounds around us.

Art can be a powerful tool to help people of all ages express and process emotions. This social emotional learning worksheet guides students to create a piece of art to express what they are feeling in the moment using chosen shapes and colors.

These self-regulation cards can support your child in learning how to deal with big feelings.

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.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners will read through four different empathy scenarios in order to think critically about how they would feel if they were in the fictional characters' shoes.

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.

With this social emotional learning worksheet, children will cut out the cards and then play charades with emotions to help them build mindfulness of emotions.

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.

This worksheet will help support students to work with difficult emotions.

Use this worksheet to have students participate in an Acts of Kindness Challenge, in which they will choose and perform various kind deeds in their classroom and school.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, students are asked to draw a picture of what they love about themselves. The hearts can then be cut out and compiled to create a classroom mobile,

How are you feeling today? Use these cards to explore emotion adjectives, either on their own or with our Mindfulness lesson plan series.

Being aware of your emotions can be tricky! This worksheet helps students tune in by taking their own internal weather reports.

Reward your learner for good behavior, homework completion, and any other positive choices they make during the week using this space-themed progress tracker.

In this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners are guided to write words of support—love, apologize, accept, listen, breathe—on a the fingers of a hand to remind them how to forgive others.

This social emotional learning worksheet guides students to create an emotions journal cover to place on a notebook and includes a prompt for students to complete a drawing on the first page of their new journal.

Use this worksheet to help children reflect on the importance of sharing love and kindness with others.

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.

Mindful listening can be a wonderful tool and can also be a fun game! This social emotional learning worksheet guides your child to create a skit or video that explains mindful listening and guides viewers in a mindful listening game.

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.

This social emotional learning worksheet invites second and third graders to read a story about how Michael Jordan utilized a growth mindset to overcome obstacles in order to become one of the greatest basketball players of all time.