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1st - 5th Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities

Understanding emotions can be a helpful tool for self-regulation. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice identifying different emotions and explore how they connect with various gestures and facial expressions.

Colored Emotions

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

Natural Emotions

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

Fact or Opinion?

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

Things I Like About Me

Do you need to help your students chill out? This activity will help your students learn how to breathe deeply, self-soothe, and calm themselves down.

Make a Calm Down Bottle

In this activity, your child will learn and teach someone else five finger breathing, and they will also draw a picture of their experience.

Five Finger Breathing

Children will deepen their understanding of global citizenship and create a collage that illustrates all of the ways many communities are connected.

What Does It Mean to Live in a Global Community?

Ensuring that what we say is truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind takes practice! In this social emotional learning activity, your child will set a goal for themselves to THINK before they speak.

THINK for Kind Talking

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

Create an Internal Weather Report

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Understanding Others

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Make Peace Rocks

Tracing is a great technique for clearing your mind and relaxing. Help your child learn how to calm themselves down and clear their minds by tracing their hands.

Five-Finger Relaxation

In this activity, students will create a peace treaty as a class and come up with guidelines for how they will manage conflict.

Create a Peace Treaty

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice a mindfulness and forgiveness visualization and write a letter to someone with whom they've had a minor conflict and would like to forgive.

Forgiveness

In this activity, your child will discover their interests and special talents through performing, writing, and drawing.

Exploration of Talents

In this activity, your child will watch a video about empathy and practice speaking to someone with empathy. They will also discuss how empathy supports living in a community with others.

Seeing and Understanding Empathy

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

Make a Family Gratitude Jar

Children will discuss what it means to have healthy friendships and create a unique friendship painting that illustrates the qualities of good friends.

Healthy Friendships

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Giving and Receiving Kindness

In this activity, your child will design their own Best Self Journal to reflect on ways they have been their best each day.

Focusing on the Good Each Day

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will go on a nature scavenger hunt to look for patterns in nature and appreciate how amazing nature is.

Patterns in Nature

In this activity, your child will discuss how to stand up for others, and they'll use pipe cleaners to design a symbol that reminds them to stand up for others.

Take a Stand

In this activity, your child will hear a story and practice mindful breathing. They will paint a picture that reminds them to bring mindfulness and kindness to their puppy mind.

Puppy Mind

In this activity, your child will explore the difference between boredom and curiosity in building greater attentiveness and happiness in the present moment.

Curiosity vs. Boredom

Children learn about mindfulness tools that may support them to manage their emotions. Then they will create their own video to teach others these same mindfulness tools. 

Managing Emotions

In this activity, your child will explore techniques that support patience and learn to practice mindfulness when waiting.

It Takes Skill to Wait

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

Negativity Bias

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

Peace Garden

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will participate in a mindfulness exercise focused on forgiveness. Then, they'll craft a Peace and Harmony Fidget Spinner to cultivate calmness.

Resolving Conflicts

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

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