Social emotional learning resources under $5

Character Education, Life Skills, Social Emotional Learning

Create a Calm Down Corner and teach calm down techniques to help your students develop self-regulation and manage their big emotions. It includes a class read-aloud, calm down posters, calm down cards, yoga cards, deep breaths visual, abook list, positive notes, and more! Teaching students how to manage their emotions is a life skill! These activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long. These activities are designed for prescho

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PreK - 1st

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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

All About Me Activities, Graphs, and More for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

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Back to School, Character Education, Social Emotional Learning

All About Me is loaded with fun, back to school activities to help your students get to know each other and their teachers during those first few weeks of school! It includes get to know you graphs, class books, posters, and mini books. These exciting activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! Each activity has a page of teacher tips to help you create the activity easily and ensure it will go smoothly. You can use these

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PreK - K

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Projects, Activities, Centers

Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

KIDS COPING SKILLS! Stress Management Social Emotional Lesson + SEL Activities

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Classroom Management, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

Teach your students effective self-regulation strategies with this engaging social emotional learning activity and stress management coping skills lesson. Filled with awesome visual supports, this SEL coping tools toolbox helps children identify healthy calming tools to manage uncomfortable feelings. When children build their emotional regulation toolbox, they learn how to manage stress more effectively. A less stressed out brain means a child who is more ready to learn, focus in class, get al

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K - 8th

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Also included in: School Counseling Bundle: Solution Focused Individual & Small Group Counseling

Feelings Emotions Unit (SEL) for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

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Back to School, Character Education, Social Emotional Learning

Feelings and Emotions SEL unit is loaded with fun activities to teach and build your student's emotional vocabulary and social skills. It includes posters/cards, a graph, feeling wheels, emotions write the room, and real feeling photographs. These fun feelings and emotion activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! The activities have a page of teacher tips and/or photographs to help you create the activity easily. You can

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PreK - 1st

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Fire Drill Routine, Book, & Posters

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Back to School, Character Education, Social Emotional Learning

Fire Drill book and routine posters! Fire drills can be scary for younger students. It’s loud and there are kids everywhere! I hope this helps make fire drills less scary and manageable for your students.At the beginning of the year, I will read this book a few times and then we will practice the fire drill before it happens. This book explains what to expect during a fire drill, what a fire drill will look like and sound like, and that it is NOT real (even if there are firefighters there).Extra

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PreK - K

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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Problem Solving Solutions - Visual Support Posters, Song, and Strategies

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Character Education, Classroom Management, Social Emotional Learning

Problem Solving Solutions posters and techniques support your students to solve their own problems and collaborate and play with others! Problem solving is a skill we need to teach just like we need to teach letters and sounds. It takes lots of practice and visual supports. Included are 16 techniques problem solving solutions (aka conflict resolution strategies) appropriate for little learners. You can use all of the problem solving solutions or choose the ones you think will best fit your c

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PreK - 1st

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Songs, Printables, Posters

Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

All About My Family for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

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Character Education, Holidays/Seasonal, Social Emotional Learning

All About my Family is loaded with fun, family themed activities to help your students get to know each other and their families. Discuss and create a family anchor chart about where families can live, who can be in a family, and what families like to do together. Make family graphs, class books, mini book, collages, and family portraits. These exciting activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! Each activity has a page of

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PreK - K

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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Class Rules and Circle Time Rules Posters, Books, and Positive Notes Home

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Back to School, Classroom Management, Social Emotional Learning

Classroom Rules and Circle Rules are simple rules and expectations for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten class! They are easy to remember and developmentally appropriate rules to help you build a caring classroom community beginning from the first day of school. It is a great way to promote and teach good character and good manners in your classroom. Teaching social skills and character education should be part of your intentional teaching each day. Included are teaching strategies with

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PreK - 1st

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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Respect Lesson and Activities

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Classroom Management, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

This set of activities is designed to help students: better understand the concept of respect, practice identifying what respect looks like in various situations, and reflect and share on their own opinions and experiences with respect. The ultimate goal is to help develop more respectful students and a more respectful classroom and school community by choosing to treat one another respectfully as fellow human beings! Use as one SEL lesson or break the activities across several days!*Now include

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3rd - 5th

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Also included in: Social Emotional Learning Lessons | Guidance Lessons Bundle for Upper Elementary

Playground & Recess Rules Book, Posters, & Student Certificates

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Back to School, Character Education, Social Emotional Learning

Playground & Recess Rules will help you teach your students all about the playground rules and how to stay safe. It includes a class read-aloud, rules poster, rule cards, and student certificates. Teaching rules and produces at the beginning of the year is important! These activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long. Everything included has two wording options (“playground time” and “recess”). These activities are designe

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PreK - K

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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Safety Drills Books & Routine Posters (Earthquake, Tornado, & Intruder/Lockdown)

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Classroom Management, Health, Social Emotional Learning

Earthquake Drills, Tornado Drills, and Intruder Drills (aka Lock Down Drills) can be scary for younger students. Using routine posters as visual supports and read-aloud books shows students what to expect, making the safety drills less scary and more manageable for your students. At the beginning of the year, I will read the book before the drill and with individual or small groups of students throughout the year before drills. This has been designed for a preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten class

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PreK - K

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PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Flipping a Lid: Stress Response Activities and Lesson

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School Counseling, School Psychology, Social Emotional Learning

Empower students by teaching them about their brain and their feelings using the hand model of the brain! This resource is a kid-friendly way of explaining what "flipping a lid" means by illustrating the roles of the wise owl pre-frontal cortex, guard dog amygdala, and memory saver hippocampus. It also allows you to begin a discussion about how to self-regulate when you flip a lid. You might pick and choose elements of this resource to present to your students as one lesson, or you may use them

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2nd - 5th

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Activities

Also included in: Yearlong Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Bundle for K-5

Self-Regulation Coping Strategies for Classroom Management Calm Corner Tool

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Classroom Management, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

Our 50 Self-Regulation Coping Tools Activity Kit teaches students classroom appropriate strategies to self-regulate, focus and get ready to learn & get along with others. With 50 suggestions to choose from, your students will for sure be able to find and use coping strategies that meet their individual needs. Classroom disruptions will also be reduced when students practice self-regulation skills independently. Detailed visual supports also help students to better communicate. Effective tr

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K - 5th

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Posters

Also included in: Bundle for Izza

Autism Visual Behavior Management - I Feel I Need SEL Visual Aid File Folder

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Adapting for Autism

This visual choice board is a simple social emotional learning resource for your special education or inclusion classroom. Providing a student with this file folder visual support may allow him to express his needs without having to find the words. While this visual was designed for students with autism, it can be beneficial for any struggling students. Even verbal students can have trouble retrieving the words or articulating what they need. Offering this simple visual can aid a student in

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School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education

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K - 3rd

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Printables, School Nurse Documents, For Parents

Also included in: Autism Visual Supports and Schedules for Special Education Classrooms BUNDLE

Positive Affirmation Counseling Lesson, Self Esteem Group Activity & SEL Game

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Character Education, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

Need a fun social emotional learning classroom lesson, self-esteem small group activity, or engaging CBT individual counseling intervention. Your students will LOVE learning all about positive affirmations and positive self-talk while they make customized fortune tellers! Using positive affirmations will help your students develop self-efficacy, nurture a positive self-concept, and be a protective factor and coping tool for when life gets tough. What's Included4 Do-it-yourself, customizable &

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1st - 10th

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Games, Lesson

Also included in: SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING Fortune Tellers! Fun SEL Lessons & Group Activities

PORTABLE CALM CORNER: Self-Regulation Coping Skills & Mindfulness Activities

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Classroom Management, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

Your students will love using our interactive portable calm down corner lap book! It's the perfect effective behavior management tool that's easy to transport and store. The strong visual supports help students to communicate more easily. This means most students can use the portable calm corner independently. Plus it makes an excellent deescalation tool. Best of all, using it can be a calming strategy in and of itself. HOW IT WORKS1. Students identify their feelings and the size of the pro

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1st - 5th

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Activities, Posters

Also included in: Bundle for Izza

How to Be a Friend Poster, Book, Activities, Awards, and More

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Character Education, Classroom Management, Social Emotional Learning

Teach your students how to be a good friend and collaborate with others. Help students develop friendship skills by using visual supports, an emergent reader, friendship surveys, positive notes, and many fun activities. How to be a friend and interact with others (aka character education) is a life skill. It takes lots of practice and visual supports for little learners. These activities will help you build a caring community of learners who will support each other all year long. These activitie

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PreK - K

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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Stand in My Shoes Lesson With Empathy Scenarios

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School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education

Empathy is one of the most important social-emotional learning skills, and the empathy scenarios in this lesson are the perfect tool for practice. Students engage in cooperative learning to practice identifying feelings in others and figuring out how to show they care. The lesson is interactive and engaging and allows for movement. These empathy activities can be used with or without a story book such as Stand in My Shoes by Bob Sorenson.This resource also includes a Google Slides (TM) version f

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2nd - 5th

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Activities

Also included in: Yearlong Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Bundle for K-5

Hey, Little Ant: SEL Read Aloud Activities For Kindness, Empathy & Friendship

Created by

Counselor Chelsey

These kindness and empathy activities are the perfect way to teach your students about how to treat others. Students will learn not to "SQUISH" others. This acronym stands for:Start or spread rumorsQuit including othersUse mean wordsIgnore someone on purposeSay threatening thingsHumiliate othersThey will consider how these behaviors make others feel and how to treat others with kindness and respect. This activity can be used with or without the book Hey, Little Ant by Hannah and Philip Hoose. Th

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Classroom Community, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

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2nd - 4th

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Activities, Printables

Also included in: Social Skills Read Aloud Activities For Friendship, Kindness, Inclusion, Etc.

Social Boundaries Lesson and Friendship Skills

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Classroom Community, School Counseling, Social Emotional Learning

This resource is for teaching upper elementary students about friendship boundaries and solving conflict in friendships. It focuses on identifying the personal boundaries (togetherness vs. exclusion, fun vs. mean joking, caring vs. hurtful touching, sharing ideas vs. controlling/bossing, saying negative vs. positive things about a friend), generating examples of behaviors on the okay and not okay side of boundaries, and giving I-statements to friends. It's a great SEL lesson or guidance lesson.I

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3rd - 5th

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Lesson

Also included in: Yearlong Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Bundle for K-5

Hand Washing Routine, Book, Posters, & Song

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Health, Life Skills, Social Emotional Learning

Hand washing posters, hand washing song, a social story book, paper towel visuals, and soap visuals help teach and cue students to wash their hands to stay healthy. At the beginning of the year, after breaks, and when students get sick, reteach and review hand washing. This social story explains why it is important to wash their hands, when to wash their hands, and the steps to wash their hands. UPDATED March 2020-Hand Washing Song: Students hardly ever wash their hands long enough. Students ca

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PreK - K

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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners

Book Care Posters, Charts, Read Aloud, and Book Hospital

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Library Skills, Reading, Social Emotional Learning

Teach your students how to take care of books. This mini unit includes posters (for little learners and readers), anchor chart, book hospital posters, and a read aloud. These activities are designed for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or first grade. This can be used in a classroom, school library, or lending library.This is included in my Social SKills (SEL) & Character Education Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten! Buy the bundle and save over 20%!Included:• Read Aloud: I Can

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PreK - 1st

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