Welcome to the elementary page designed to provide social emotional learning opportunities. Here you will find some information on ways to help support your kiddo with resources, activities, lessons, stories and other fun tidbits. We will continue to update as we find more acitivities.
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Conflict Resolution Coloring book- Siblings getting on each other's nerves, well print each a copy to help them learn about problems and ways to resolve them peacefully.
Calm down Turtle Breathing - Work as a team with your student to help calm those feelings through turtle breathing. This is great for Discovery students
Coping Skills - Here are some great ways to help Explorer students practice ways to work through some strong emotions.
Breathing Visuals - Here are some great things to use for yourself and your kids to help calm those feelings.
Free Apps:
Daniel Tiger’s Grrrific Feelings
Breathe, Think, Go with Sesame
Touch and Learn Emotion
Emotional ABC Classroom
The Social Express
Smiling Minds
Mindful Powers
Mind Yeti
Online Learning activities
https://www.centervention.com/social-emotional-learning-activities/
Activities for Kids
Mindfulness is simply noticing what is happening right now.
Mindfulness is taking notice of how your body feels and what you see, smell and taste. Maybe you even feel emotions in your body, perhaps through a tightness somewhere, or a good sensation.
When you notice what is happening around you, it can help you to calm down when you’re sad, angry or frustrated. Mindfulness helps you deal with tough emotions, and mindfulness can make you happy and feel good.
Scroll down for some kid friendly video explanations.
Recommended for grades PreK - Second
Recommended for grades Second and up.
There are many different activities and ways to incorporate mindfulness into your everyday life at home and at school. See below for several different resources and ideas:
By mindfully observing our senses we can better attend, enhance our memories, become better problem solvers, better our relationships, and increase creativity. Below are some lessons you could do with your child.
Breathing techniques can help us calm our bodies by slowing our heart down, lowering our blood pressure, and sharpening our focus. Therefore, breathing can help us calm uncomfortable feelings such, as anxiety, hyperactivity or anger.
Here is a fun video that teaches kids the technique of belly breathing through song. (Recommended for young ages)
More resources & videos for belly breathing can be found below:
Here is a video that models how a child can use shapes for deep breathing. You can use these Shape Visuals for the Video
Additional shape breathing resources:
Here (above) you can access 8 different breathing activities your child can try at home.
Below are some additional breathing activities:
Mindful movement can help us release uncomfortable feelings in a healthy way. In addition, it can help us practice our breathing techniques and increase our concentration - of course, it also helps us promote a healthier physical body.
Calming Exercises for Kids: Breathing and Stretching
Here is a video of a monkey completing some stretches with calming music in the background. Have your child play follow the leader with the monkey while completing the same slow body movements while trying to mimic his breathing.
Cosmic Kids! Yoga & Mindfulness
Cosmic Kids! has a variety of yoga YouTube videos for kids 3+. See an introduction video of the the channel above and links to some of our favorite videos below:
Yoga for Kids l Yoga with Adriene
Here is a great option for students that are older & want to try yoga without any animation or stories.
Other Resources/ Activities:
Flow- GoNoodle is a great channel for many different mindful physical movements. Click below:
Below are some additional ideas:
Below are coloring pages:
Discover and Explorer School Social Work Team