1st - 3rd Grade Social Emotional Learning Worksheets

How do you feel when you're with your friends and family? Answer this question and more about feelings by filling in the blanks to complete the sentences.

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.

Watch as students turn “growth mindset” into “the power of yet” by following the directions in this SEL word puzzle!

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

Students take emojis from text to paper, using them as prompts for identifying and reflecting upon their own feelings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Practice gratitude through poetry with this acrostic poem worksheet!

This social emotional worksheet guides students to reflect on moments over the past week where they were their very best selves in their communities. They will then fill in the "best self" timeline and draw a picture of one of those moments.

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

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

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.

Reinforce your child’s positive choices and behavior while learning at home with this helpful Success Chart. Throughout the week, look for opportunities to praise your child for making good choices!

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.

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.

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.

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 informational worksheet teaches children that when they practice mindfulness, they are able to calm the amygdala and access their prefrontal cortex to make healthy choices.

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

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.

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.

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.

Children will draw a picture of their current hairstyle in this creative mirror-themed SEL worksheet. 

Use this progress tracker to reinforce positive choices and celebrate your learner's successes! This fun design allows children to earn rewards quickly, which then builds their motivation to keep working hard.

Use these communication cards to support your child in choosing their preferred method of communicating with friends, family, and peers.