SEL @ Home

Below are a variety of websites and activities that will be fun to explore with your family!

• SEL Screentime Activity: Use this worksheet to have meaningful conversations as you watch movies and TV at home.

• 99 Coping Strategies: Look at this list of strategies and pick the ones that you think will help you the most!

• Screen-Free Activities

• Anxiety and Stress:

  • Back to School Transitions: Tips for Parents

  • Getting Your Child Out the Door In the Morning

  • Helping Your Child Adjust to School

  • Calming Anxiety in Children

  • 7 Ways to Help a Child Who is Having a Panic Attack

  • 9 Strategies for Building Coping Skills in Children with Anxiety

  • Children and Bedtime Fears and Nightmares

  • Parenting Tips to Calm An Anxious Child

  • Book Suggestions:

    • Best Children’s Books for Anxiety

  • Dealing with Worry: Lesson that talks about what we can control and what we cannot.

• SEL Home Learning Activities

  • K-2

  • 3-5

• Mindfulness and Yoga Resources

  • Cosmic Kids

  • Calm

  • Body Scan

  • Grounding Exercise

  • Mind Yeti

• Career Exploration (Intermediate)

• Centervention: Free SEL activities to do at home

• Playworks Life Skills Games: Interactive games, look to the index for games to play by topic or by group size

• Gratitude Journaling: Variety of gratitude prompts

• Grief:

  • Judi's House - counseling provider and website resources

  • Developmental Responses to Grief

  • The Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Families and Children

  • Talking to Children About Suicide

  • The Do's and Don'ts of Talking with a Child about Death

• Random Acts of Kindness: Contains a variety of resources to bring and spread kindness during this time. They also have SEL lessons.

• Second Step: A leader in SEL Curriculm has put together a variety of resources for parents and activities to do at home. Second Step has recently made their Emotion Management Unit available online; each lesson is about 15 minutes accompanied by a parent guide and a code to download printable activities. Click on your student's grade level below to access:

  • Kindergarten Lessons

  • Grade 1 Lessons

  • Grade 2 Lessons

  • Grade 3 Lessons

  • Grade 4 Lessons

  • Grade 5 Lessons

• WITS: An SEL program designed around children's stories. Although you may not have these books at home, many are available online through YouTube read-alouds.

• Social Justice

  • BLM Virtual Library for Kids

  • NY Times Video Series: "Who, me? Biased?"

  • Black is a Rainbow Color

  • Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (for intermediate grades and up)

  • Something Happened in Our Town: A child's story about racial injustice

  • The Story of Ruby Bridges

  • Not My Idea