3rd and 4th Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities

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.

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

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.

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 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 learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

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.

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 explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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