Social Stories Playground Recess Rules Expectations Social Skills Activities

Playground rules and playground safety will be easy concepts for your students to master with these Playground Rules Social Skills Activities.

Provide clear expectations while building a safety-oriented and community-centered playground experience for your students using this Playground Rules Social Skills Activities Set. This set of fun and engaging social skills activities is a great starting point to help students navigate acceptable playground behavior and tackle social and emotional problem-solving situations. An informative social skills story, written in kid-friendly language, provided in PDF, Google slides, and video versions, along with suggested lesson plans, classroom posters, discussion cards, student reference cards, role-play activities, a sorting activity, a critical thinking skills games, an easy reader mini-book, student activity pages, and positive student notes are everything you need to make your lessons on playground rules and safety ones your students will remember.

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This extra-helpful, high-interest resource includes the following printables and activities:

✅ social skills story- A colorful social skills story, written in kid-friendly language focusing on:

• Keeping hands and feet to selves
• Sharing equipment
• Including others
• Being a good sport
• Using appropriate language
• Being safe
• Using self-control
• Using good manners
• Being kind
• Following directions
• Listening for the teacher's whistle
• Being respectful of others
• Lining up when called
• Returning to the classroom quietly
• Using the playground equipment the way it is meant to be used, specificallly:

Slide:

do not climb up the slide

slide down feet first

one person on the slide at a time

move away from bottom of slide quickly when done using it

Swings:

sit safely on the swing

hold on while swinging

take turns on the swings

stand a safe distance away from swing while waiting your turn

Pullup/Monkey Bars:

do not sit on, stand on, or flip off of bars

only go across bars in one direction

do not climb on top of the bars

Ground Covering/Nature:

leave the grass, wood chips, rocks, sand, and sticks on the ground

do not pull on tree branches or climb the trees

(SOCIAL SKILLS STORY PROVIDED IN 3 DIFFERENT VERSIONS- PDF, GOOGLE

SLIDES AND VIDEO) a comprehension check page is included with the

google slides and video version.

✅ classroom posters- These classroom posters mirror the important points covered in the read-aloud and break them down into even simpler kid-friendly language.

✅ suggested lesson plans- Activities mapped out over 4 days for you in a suggested plan of use

✅ discussion cards- Delve deeper with thought-provoking comprehension questions.

✅ student reference cards- Perfect for meeting individual student needs/provides self-control strategies in kid-friendly language.

✅ role-playing activities- Students actively engage in a concrete practice of the skills being taught through role play of various situations and scenarios.

✅ sorting activity- Activate critical thinking skills with this sorting activity requiring students to separate good choices from not so good choices.

✅ critical thinking skills game- Students use critical thinking skills and their newly learned social skills knowledge to answer different “what would you do” scenario questions while playing this fun and engaging board game.

✅ easy reader mini books- The social skill being focused on is further broken down in a way for students to read, review, and remember. These mini-books are printable in black and white so that the children can color them.

✅ activity pages- Deepen the understanding of what the students have learned about the important social skills being taught.

✅ positive student notes- Celebrate the growth and learning of new social skills with these positive student notes. Both in color and black and white.

This is THE PERFECT RESOURCE for:

•Whole Class Instruction

•Small Group Instruction

•Individual Instruction

•SEL Instruction

•Time Fillers

•Morning Meeting

•Take-Home Review

•Class Meetings

•Students with autism

•Students with behavioral disorders

You won’t be disappointed with the engagement level and the results of this resource!

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You may be interested in these perfect companion resources:

⭐Turn Taking Social Skills Story and Activities

⭐Self Control Strategies and Activities

⭐Stealing Social Skills Story and Activities

⭐Calm Down Strategies and Activities

⭐Personal Space Social Skills Activities

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “This has been a great social story to help with my students on the spectrum to understand different things they may encounter on the playground and how to handle these issues if they happen. Thank you!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“It was exactly what I was looking for to address behavior issues on the playground.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“This is a great introduction to help students start talking about expected behaviors before, during, and after recess.”

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