3rd and 4th Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In this activity, your child will practice taking on the perspective of others and will generate ideas for conflict resolution at home.

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.

In this activity, your child will reflect on one role model in their life or research one historical figure that has displayed perseverance. Then, they will create a slideshow presentation or poster that defines and illustrates perseverance.

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

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

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

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

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

In this activity, your child will reflect on and write a story about a person who has embodied integrity and honesty in their life.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.