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First Day of School Back to School Getting to Know You Trucker Hat Activity
By Rebekah Poe Teaching
Welcome Your Students with a Fun and Creative "Trucker Hat" Activity!
Kick off the school year with a splash of creativity and fun using our delightful "Trucker Hat" worksheet! Designed for Pre-K through 6th grade, this engaging activity invites students to design their very own trucker hat by decorating three patches with drawings that represent who they are or what they love.
Why You'll Love This Resource:
-Builds Connections: This activity is perfect for getting to know your students on a personal level. By having them draw symbols or images that are meaningful to them, you’ll gain insight into their interests, hobbies, and personalities in a way that’s both interactive and enjoyable.
-Promotes Self-Expression: Each student will have the opportunity to express their individuality and creativity. This not only helps them feel valued but also encourages a positive classroom environment where everyone’s uniqueness is celebrated.
-Fosters Classroom Community: As students share their decorated hats with their peers, they’ll learn more about one another, sparking conversations and connections. This is a wonderful icebreaker that helps build a strong, supportive classroom community from day one.
-Versatile and Easy to Use: Whether you’re working with younger students who may need some guidance or older students who can dive into detailed designs, this worksheet is flexible and easy to implement. Just print and hand out, and you’re ready for a creative start to the school year!
Features:
-Printable Worksheet: Easy to prepare and use in any classroom setting.
-Three Customizable Patches: Ample space for students to draw and personalize their hats.
-Fun and Engaging: Captivates students’ attention and gets them excited about the new school year.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic tool for starting the school year with enthusiasm and connection. Grab your "Trucker Hat" worksheets today and make your first day back memorable and meaningful for every student!
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this resource as a brain break in your home or classroom! This one page resource explains how to belly breathe, and gives children a place to reflect on the experience and color.
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this worksheet with your students or children to reflect upon their self care. Children can use this tool to set healthy intensions to help themselves and others throughout the day.
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this tool to help kids with social-emotional learning. In this worksheet, you will find space for your students to draw how the specific feeling looks to them, space for writing about when they experienced that feeling, and a space for them to write and draw what that feeling is associated with.
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this tool to help kids with social-emotional learning. In this worksheet, you will find space for your students to draw how the specific feeling looks to them, space for writing about when they experienced that feeling, and a space for them to write and draw what that feeling is associated with.
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this tool to help kids with social-emotional learning. In this worksheet, you will find space for your students to draw how the specific feeling looks to them, space for writing about when they experienced that feeling, and a space for them to write and draw what that feeling is associated with.
Kids Autumn Sequence Yoga Cards and Lesson Plans
By Lara Hocheiser
For many, the passage into Autumn means a shift from Summer to the academic year. That passage is marked by changes of season. Long days and short nights turn to shorter days and longer nights. Summer days may have been filled with recreation, camp, family, and travel. Now schools days are filled with academics, homework, extracurricular activities, and busy schedules.
With all the changes, some students and families experience anxiety, stress, and difficulty balancing all they need to do.
Our Autumn Yoga Sequence can help yoga practitioners of all ages to feel a deeper sense of balance within.
With yoga and mindfulness, kids can become more calm, focused in school, and empowered to start every day with confidence and compassion.
Explore the benefits of Yoga and Mindfulness
Lesson Plans for Teachers and Parents
In our Educator’s edition, we provide 3 easy-to-follow curriculums for teachers, parents, and anyone else that works with children (split by age: young kids, kids, and tweens).
Each lesson plan is formatted to teach an entire class and includes:
Also included are:
Learn and Move with our Yoga Cards
Learn five (5) yoga poses. Written for kids, each card comes with easy-to-follow illustrations and step-by-step instructions. In this resource, the yoga cards come in two variations: one with instructions and another version without text, which is perfect for new readers and people that may have special needs.
This Autumn yoga deck is the perfect way to de-stress and share yoga and mindfulness with children!
Practice anywhere! Use this deck at home, school, park, or when traveling! Add to your peace corner, play yoga games, practice individual poses or as a full sequence.
Add Mindfulness to your Routine
Research shows that mindfulness can improve executive functions in their brain like cognitive control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and better grades.
We’ve added four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities to teach your children how to manage their emotions and be present. These Fall-themed activities will get your kids excited about the changing seasons while developing their own mindfulness practice.
Also included are five (5) coloring pages of the poses so kids can mindfully color while learning the poses and a journal so they can reflect on their practice.
The Autumn Sequence is a 44-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.
Made for educators, yoga teachers, and people leading children's yoga in any setting
Includes three (3) specially designed yoga lesson plans that can be taught to kids ages 2-7, 7-11 and 11-14.
My Relationship with others Activity Sheets
By Lara Hocheiser
Use these worksheets during your social-emotional learning instruction. These worksheets give children a space to reflect and journal about who they trust, who they would talk to in a time of need, and why. There is also space for children to draw.
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this tool to help kids with social-emotional learning. In this worksheet, you will find space for your students to draw how the specific feeling looks to them, space for writing about when they experienced that feeling, and a space for them to write and draw what that feeling is associated with.
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this tool to help kids with social-emotional learning. In this worksheet, you will find space for your students to draw how the specific feeling looks to them, space for writing about when they experienced that feeling, and a space for them to write and draw what that feeling is associated with.
By Lara Hocheiser
Are you a parent, caretaker, or classroom teacher who is trying to find ways to integrate self care into your students and your day? In this self care toolkit, you will receive
- 3 different breaths to practice: Star Tracing Breath, Gratitude Breath, and Power of the Sun Breath
- A Kid-Friendly Sun Salutation sequence with a poem
- 2 Daily Practice Journals (Healthy Habits Tracker and Morning Routine Tracker)
- A Mindful Hand Wash Meditation
- 5 Breath Space Maker Transition activity (Helpful for classroom teachers!)
These self care toolkit worksheets have directions, fill-in-the-blank areas, and coloring areas!
By Lara Hocheiser
This is a yoga class inspired to help students with their attitudes and feelings towards challenges in their lives. We provide activity pages, coloring sheets, and discussion prompts to get your students thinking about their strengths and areas for growth. We also are providing poses to help stretch and grow their bodies further into the pose as they repeat mantras.
In this lesson plan, we include:
Kids Yoga Spring Sequence Yoga Pose Poster
By Lara Hocheiser
Happy spring yogis! Enjoy this 5 pose yoga sequence of things we see in Spring. The following poses are designed to encourage movement and creativity as we transition from Winter to Spring. It’s time to explore the outdoors and be more active throughout the day.
We have provided this spring yoga sequence as a printable poster as well as cards. The cards are available for purchase in our store (see "Kids Yoga Spring Sequence Pose Cards / Yoga Card Deck").
This five part yoga sequence is perfect for kids, teens and adults to do together. Each pose is meant to encourage movement and exploration.
By Lara Hocheiser
Use this tool to help kids with social-emotional learning. In this worksheet, you will find space for your students to draw how the specific feeling looks to them, space for writing about when they experienced that feeling, and a space for them to write and draw what that feeling is associated with.
Kids Yoga Spring Sequence Pose Cards & Crafts
By Lara Hocheiser
As the winter days wind down and the spring weather approaches, many come out of hibernation. The spring season is often a time for children to play outside, participate in outdoor sports, and just enjoy the feeling of being outside in the fresh air. However, during this warm and bright season, it can also be a time of anxiety for children. Children in the upper elementary and middle school grades typically take standardized testing, which is mandated by the state. The months of April and May can actually be quite daunting for some students, which is why this spring yoga sequence is such a great addition to children’s routine. In teaching students yoga poses and breathing techniques, not only can they learn something new but they can also learn techniques that can help ease their stress and anxiety, especially when it may come to test taking.
The Spring Sequence is a 20 page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.
Includes:
Perfect for practicing anywhere! Use this deck at home, school, park, or when traveling!
By Lara Hocheiser
Included in this bundle:
- Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Autumn Sequence Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Sun Salutation Yoga Cards
- Yamas & Niyamas: Successful Relationships with Self & Others
Enjoy!
By Lara Hocheiser
Use these worksheets during you SEL instruction time throughout the day. These worksheets are each dedicated to a different feeling children experience. There is space for them to draw the feeling, reflect upon the feeling, and describe a time they felt that feeling. A perfect activity to use as an introduction to talking about a certain feeling.
Firefighter Vocabulary Cards with real photos
By The Chatty Kinder
This set contains photo cards on the vocabulary related to a firefighter and fire safety. It can be used for a community helper unit. The cards can be used as vocabulary flashcards or as 3-part cards for a matching activity.
This set includes:
- 19 vocabulary cards with real photos
- 19 picture cards
- 19 word label cards
This set consists of the following vocabulary.
- Firefighter
- Fire Station
- Fire truck
- Fire helmet
- Fire hose
- Fire hydrant
- Fire boots
- Rescue equipment
- Fire extinguisher
- Oxygen tank
- Dalmatian
- Smoke
- Fire
- Axe
- Fire alarm
- Mask
- Fire pole
- Ambulance
- Ladder
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Community Helpers Craft Activity - Career Day Craftivity
By The Chatty Kinder
This Community Helpers Craft Activity or Craftivity is so much fun for your preschoolers, kindergarteners and 1st graders. This craft activity makes the for the perfect bulletin board if you're teaching about Community Helpers or for a Career Day activity.
Students will love cutting and pasting together their choice of 14 different crafts. These crafts are great for a "When I Grow Up" themed unit as well!
*Check out the preview for a look inside the printable!*
What is in this printable?
- The printable includes 14 community helpers crafts.
- Each craft comes with 1 or 2 tools matching the helper as well.
- A guide with all the completed community helpers are included as well for reference.
The community helpers included in this set are:
Using the printable:
•These pages can be used to create a fun community helpers craft activity.
•Choose a community helper craft you’d like your learners to do.
•Print out the page and make enough copies for your learners.
•Your learners can refer to the guide or you can create a sample for learners to refer to.
•Learners will color in the different parts and then cut them out.
•Finally they will glue the pieces together to create the craft!
Grab this printable in a $$$ saving Community Helpers Unit here.
This resource is licensed for personal classroom or home use only. Any commercial use is not permitted.
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