Our Daily Routine
Creating a daily schedule provides consistency and routine in your student(s) day, allowing daily goals to be set while creating expectations and things to look forward to throughout each day. Feel free to use these routine schedules as a guide for your family planning.
Daily Goals
As you are planning with your student(s) and creating their daily goals, the "30 Things You can do for Your Emotional Health" resource gives lots of ideas for activities which could be incorporated into your student(s) day as an independent activity or a family game. For the daily goal coloring sheet, if printing is not an option, students can create their own color by numbers grid, such as the sunshine grid on page two, and track each day that they practice a habit or meet a daily goal.
Feelings Check In
Recognizing what our feelings feel like and look like is one of the first steps to emotional regulation. The feelings chart above gives a great visual for parents/guardians to share with your students on your phone or computer, to check in with them on how they might be feeling. The resource also includes "I Feel" statements that parents/guardians can talk with their student(s) about. What's Poppin' is a fun resource for students to track their daily feelings and look for patterns at the end of the week. If printing is not an option, students can get creative and create their own chart!
Emotion Activities
Whether you have play dough at home or your crafting activity for the day was to make homemade play dough, using our hands to create can be a fun way for your student(s) to connection with and identify emotions. Check out the emotion centers activities for fun ideas students can engage in independently or with the help of a family member.
The emotions wheel is another student directed activity where students can identify feelings and relate them back to personal experiences. Have your student(s) draw a wheel and split it up into 6 sections, like a pie! Have them label each pie piece with the above emotions. Then, have students draw/write experiences in which they have experienced the different types of emotions.
Family Activities
Room Search & Things I see are simple activities meant to bring awareness to our surroundings & can be easy ways to engage with family members. Roll & Respond can serve as a great conversation starter about emotions.