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2nd - 5th Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities : Page 2

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

Live in The Moment With Mindful Walking

In this activity, your child will write a poem recognizing and appreciating the beauty inherent in diversity.

Loveliness in Diversity

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, 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  

Judgements assumptions about others can cause disconnect in relationships and communities. In this social emotional learning activity, kids will explore how to break through assumptions and create a colorful bracelet that represents unity.

Break Through Assumptions

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Seeing the Beauty in Small and Big Things

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 explore techniques that support patience and learn to practice mindfulness when waiting.

It Takes Skill to Wait

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

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

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 activity, work with your child to build a chain of strengths, highlighting their individual strengths and unique abilities.

Others Build My Chain of Strengths

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, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

Adults Can Learn From Kids

In this activity, your child will learn about the benefits of yoga and will practice different yoga poses. Then, they will teach someone else three poses and explain how yoga can help us find calmness and ease.

Learning and Teaching Yoga

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

Physical touch through tapping and hugging can be a wonderful way to regulate emotions. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will explore the power of tapping or hugging to help them calm down and relieve feelings of stress or anxiety.

Tapping and Hugs for Managing Strong Emotions

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

In this activity, your child will experience multitasking, then mindfulness and compare the two in terms of productivity and calmness.

Multitasking vs. Mindfulness

In this activity students first send kindness to themselves and then they send it to others.

Sending Kindness

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

Find Your Feelings

In this activity, your child will use two powerful questions to investigate a thought and the truth behind it. They will write and perform a skit using mindfulness and these important questions.

The Power of Inquiry

Children reflect on ways they have cared for themselves, others, and the Earth before building a garden to share beauty with others in their community.

Sharing Beauty

Children will reflect on how community service makes us better people. Then they will complete a service survey to gain a better understanding of their interests, gifts, and their potential role as a service worker in their community. 

Service Activity

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will write loving kindness notes to place around the home to serve as a reminder (for themselves and others) to see the goodness within themselves.

Positive Reminders

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 use mindfulness to practice staying as still as they can. Then, during a freeze dance activity, they will pay attention to the constellation of sensations and feelings throughout parts of their bodies.

Still Statues

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.

Listing the Facts

In this activity, your child will take a walk outside, listen to the silence in between sounds, and draw what the experience was like for them.

Listening for Silence at Home

Children build a "Loving Kindness Garden" to represent what they have learned about love, mindfulness, and caring for others in community.

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