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S.E.L. GAMES

Emotional Roller Coaster

AAAAARGH! Getting mad is okay. It happens to all of us. Yet, left unchecked, that anger could lead us to make poor choices. There are lots of ways to respond positively to anger and other difficult emotions. In this game, players will build up their knowledge on how to do just that.

This fun anger management board game helps children:

Learn how to cope and calm down when they get angry
Use mindfulness and breathing exercises to center their focus on the present
Explore what makes them angry
Improve their ability to express themselves
Understand that if one coping strategy doesn’t feel right to them, they can try another

Everyone is different, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution to managing anger. Yet, when we take the time to learn about ourselves and our emotions, we can find what works. So ride the Roller Coaster, and don’t lose hope, because next time you get angry, you’ll know how to cope.

Game Includes:

1 Game Board
50 Coping Cards
50 Chaos Cards
2 Dice
6 Game pieces
Instructions

No Waries

No Waries™ is a fast-paced exciting social emotional learning game for kids. Kids and adults alike can grow frustrated when they are unable to express or even identify what they are feeling.

The aim of this game is to empower kids with a stronger emotional vocabulary, and equip them with the ability to describe a vast array of feelings. This will lead them to feel more successful and less frustrated.

Based on the classic card game War, players will be challenged to use a wide variety of emotions vocabulary words.

Game Supports:

Develop stronger language and vocabulary skills to better describe their emotions
Differentiate between similar emotions like sad and lonely
Express their feelings with words
Improves critical thinking and listening skills
Promote social bonding with classmates, friends, and family
Develop a relationship and share more about themselves when working one-on-one with a counselor, mentor, or a teacher
Have fun while learning

This Game Can:

Reduce student frustration during conflicts
Improve communication skills
Support self-management
Promote empathy
Foster self-confidence

Ready. Set. Grow!

Ready, Set, Grow is based on the classic card game, Go Fish. In this joy-inducing game of strategy and intrigue, players will match cards together and learn how to exercise the power of a Growth Mindset.

This fun, disguised learning game helps children:

Learn the difference between growth and fixed mindset.
Develop the strength to confront the fear of failure.
Explore how to practice a Growth Mindset at school and at home.
Overcome emotional obstacles.
Discover new challenges and strengths.
Problem-solve real-world situations.

Game Includes:

112 playing cards
2 answer cards
12 instruction cards

Match Masters

Match Master™ is a captivating social emotional learning game for kids. Being able to precisely identify your emotions is a key component in emotional maturity and essential to practicing restorative justice. This game inspires conversations about emotions and helps players to develop their emotional vocabulary so they are better able to express themselves.

In the game, players must match wacky, animated faces displaying a wide range of emotions. With each matching pair, players will also find two words describing the emotion: one common word, and a more advanced word. To earn points, players must describe when they have felt that emotion.

Game Supports:

Exercise their memory, focus, and critical listening skills
Identify what triggers certain emotions
Promote social bonding with classmates, friends, and family
Develop a relationship and share more about themselves when working one-on-one with a counselor, mentor, or a teacher.
Have fun while learning

This Game Can:

Reduce the need for punitive action
Improve student ability to identify emotions
Support restorative practices
Promote accurate self-perception
Foster personal reflection

Emoji-Stories

This imaginative dice game challenges kids to tap into their emotions to build their own picture story. We all experience difficult emotions like anger, sadness, and fear. These are natural and normal. If we take a look at the big picture though, we can see that mad can lead us to motivated, sadness to strength, and fear to focus. To get there, you’ll need to build your own story.

Game Includes:

10 Dice
Instructions

Game Supports:

Process difficult emotions like anger, sadness and fear
Practice critical thinking
Exercise creativity
Develop their story telling ability
Recognize their own strengths
Communicate their own feelings using words
Build their sense of empathy for others
Learn that they have choices when reacting to difficult emotions

This Game Can:

Reduce emotional distress
Improve ability to recognize strengths
Support stress management
Promote self-awareness
Foster student resiliency

Let's Do M.A.T.H.

(Making Amazing Things Happen)

S.E.L. CURRICULUM

S.T.O.R.M. Team

(Special Team Of Role Models)

Parents and educators alike want their kids to be happy, healthy and successful. It’s a personal mission woven into their very being. It’s a mission that can only be achieved by empowering our youth to make their own positive choices, the same positive choices that will make them Role Models.

The S.T.O.R.M.™ Team School is a system designed to support the development of the whole child. On-boarding, support and certification will be provided to selected teachers. This process will include access to a library of online professional development videos to assist them in facilitating powerful S.T.O.R.M.™ lessons.

Each lesson contains challenging missions for students in the areas of fitness, nutrition, and social-emotional learning.

Curriculum Includes:

Staff training
42 weeks of lesson plans
Video tutorials
Achievement certificates

This Curriculum:

Reduces Student Inactivity
Improves Emotional Processing Skills
Supports Healthy Eating Initiatives
Promotes Self-Discipline
Fosters Supportive Team Culture

Mr. E's Mysteries

Mr. E’s Mysteries is a fun and educational video series which leads students on an exploration of emotions, and provides educators with the tools they need to establish a positive class culture.

Any student can be a role model, but sometimes negative emotions can lead us to make poor choices. Students will join the detective Mr. E, in trying to identify what emotions our zany characters are experiencing when they make certain choices.

Students will also explore different strategies to cope with and express difficult feelings in a positive and healthy way.

Curriculum Includes:

5 Interactive videos exploring the characteristics of kindness, integrity, perseverance, self-control, and responsibility
25 Classroom activities to practice each character quality
A full set of wristbands and certificates to be awarded to students who earn them.

This Curriculum:

Reduces Teacher Prep Time
Improves Student Engagement
Supports Social Awareness
Promotes Growth Mindset
Fosters Responsible Decision Making

S.T.O.R.Me

Teachers carry with them a tremendous amount of responsibility and demands on their time. So much so, they are constantly challenged to prioritize how they will spend that time. The most successful teachers prioritize their relationships with their students.

STORMe: Mindful Exercises is a system and a daily curriculum designed to create a powerful, fun, and safe space in the classroom to build a sense of belonging for students. It is to build a belief among students that they are part of a team. By taking 3 – 5 minutes every day teachers will act with intention to strengthen not only the teacher-student relationship, but all of the student-to-student relationships in their classroom. Backed with support of their teammates, students will be better equipped to tackle the many challenges they face throughout the school day.

Curriculum Includes: