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2nd and 3rd Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities

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 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

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

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 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

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 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, 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 reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.

You Are Not Alone

In this activity, your child will write and draw about a time when they acted in ways that illustrated responsibility, kindness, or integrity. They will also reflect on what it felt like to have control over their choices and behaviors.

The Way I Act

Help your child build emotional awareness by creating a wheel full of pictures that make them feel a certain emotion.

My Emotions Wheel

Back-to-back breathing is a great way to practice self-calming while also creating connection and developing trust.

Back-to-Back Breathing

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will hear the story Zoo Zen: A Yoga Story for Kids, learn the benefits of yoga, and create their own yoga sequence to teach someone else.

Zoo Yoga

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will play a mindful listening game and create a video or skit that teaches others about mindful listening.

Mindful Listening

Using lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, help your child implement kindness and compassion into their interactions with others.

Kindness Postcards: A Martin Luther King Jr. Day Activity

In this activity, kids will create a peace corner in their bedroom or home and reflect on ways they may use their peace corner through drawing and discussion. 

Creating a Peace Corner to Promote Harmony, Kindness, and Calm at Home  

In this social emotional learning activity, kids will reflect on the past goals they've accomplished, then brainstorm new ideas, inventions, or goals they would like to accomplish and make a prototype to help visualize their achievement.

Goal Reflections

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

Painted Pumpkin Faces

In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

Mindfulness and the Brain

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Be Present with Mindful Movement

In this activity, your child will practice mindfulness, choose one thing to do in which they can slow down, and reflect on this experience. You can even try slowing down together!

Taking Time to Slow Down

In this activity, your child will interview a caring adult or friend to ask them when they have seen them at their best.

Interview: My Best Self

In this lesson, your child will watch a video on restorative justice, and together you will come up with ways your family can use restorative justice at home.

Restorative Justice

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will listen to their favorite song and explore how it makes them feel. Then, together you will craft your own cardboard radio!

Make a Radio

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

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