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After reading orwatching Enemy Pie, students will create their own FRIENDSHIP pie by listing the "ingredients" that make a good friend.
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
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
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:
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
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!
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.
How to Integrate Mindfulness into the K-5 Classroom
By Lara Hocheiser
Imagine an academic year where students and educators alike grow, learn more about themselves and others, integrating mindful activities seamlessly throughout the school day.
Imagine a classroom that is regulated, calm and present.
Everything you need in one product.
When practiced regularly, witness improved behavior outcomes, social skills, and overall social-emotional development of students.
We know you don’t want to have to learn another initiative.
We know you want something that works.
We know you don’t have a lot of time to spare.
Believe me, working in schools the past 17 years has taught me that educators need proven techniques that they can use simply.
We have your back and we understand the pressures of time, testing, busyness, distraction, and stress!
If you can do a little each day for yourself and your class, you will see the shift happen.
What does the shift look like?
It's returning to focus with less drama and emotional outbursts.
It’s putting a pause between impulse and action...in other words, self-control.
It’s freeing up your time from behavior management to connect with students.
It's easier transitions.
It’s learning along with your students, growing together.
It's your students feeling your love and presence.
How to Integrate Mindfulness into the K-5 Classroom is a comprehensive and practical mindfulness resource written specifically for children in grades K-5 and their teachers. Explore how mindfulness can improve self-regulation, self-awareness, autonomy, and social awareness in the classroom. Blended with proven research and best practices, this manual contains tools enabling teachers and students to build key skills like focus, compassion, and self-acceptance through mindfulness.
Reduce Stress and Anxiety in the Classroom
Research has shown positive outcomes when we practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is proven to reduce stress and anxiety in both teachers and students alike. In the classroom, mindfulness promotes calmer students and improves both social-emotional and academic learning.
Teachers using our resources have reported better class management and happier students! Students will be given the tools to develop their own mindfulness practice, empowering their development and relationship with themselves and others. Commit to practice mindful moments throughout the school year and watch your students grow.
Learning and Teaching Mindfulness
Developing a mindfulness practice takes time. With the proper resources, such as this manual, teachers can develop their own practice while learning how to teach mindfulness to children. This resource gives you the ability to build a mindfulness culture, right in the classroom, along with the students!
In this manual, we cover:
Teachers, school counselors, specialists, and social workers can use this resource as part of their daily classroom lessons and/or social-emotional curriculum. Learn eighteen mindfulness activities that can be easily integrated into your school day–as brain breaks, transitional activities, or daily lessons. Use our printable mindfulness yoga cards to practice activities at any time, at any place!
What’s included:
How to Integrate Mindfulness into the K-5 Classroom is a 44-page PDF made for educators helping contextualize the use of 18 mindfulness activities in the classroom. You can view this PDF on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.
Want to teach this content to other educators?
If you want to present this as professional development or share with other educators, you must complete the 4-hour private online training to become certified to share this. Schools agree to pay the licensing fee to use the content. Discounts are available for schools on a case by case basis. Please contact us for more information.
Licensing Pricing
License is good for educators teaching their students and does not cover educators training other educators. Educators are required to take our training course online as stated above.
Training to certify to teach to other educators, $450, including 4-hour private training, and the schools sign a licensing and fee agreement base on the above licensing fee structure.
Excited about the content but need extra support?
Let us help you go through the handout and familiarize yourself with each activity.
Let’s talk about your school and your plans and your students to make this work for YOU!
The private training is perfect for those looking to gain these skills starting from any point! Beginners or regular practitioners alike, join us and help roll out your most mindful year yet.
Private 4-hour online training with the author AND license to content $450 (valued at $700)
Schedule 2x 2-hour calls with Lara to go over the process, methodology, and activities and ask questions. Receive the recordings.
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
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!
How to Integrate Mindfulness into the School Day/ Everyday Life!
By Lara Hocheiser
This bundle includes a teacher manual with 18 mindfulness activities to use in the school day OR with families in the home! It also comes with a 30 minute video of founder, Lara Hochiser, explaining how to integrate mindfulness, and how to do the 6 activities that are included within the 18 of the manual.
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.
3rd 4th 5th Grade Growth Mindset Word Search Puzzles Back to School
By Ciandra Salhab
Are you ready to kick off the school year ✂️ with a growth mindset? These Growth Mindset Word Searches are the perfect puzzles to promote positive thinking, build classroom community, and engage your students in a fun, interactive activity!
This resource includes three unique word searches filled with growth mindset vocabulary, complete with answer keys and discussion questions. Designed to encourage positive thinking and resilience, these word search puzzles are perfect for fourth-grade students and beyond.
Key Features:
✨ Three Unique Word Searches: Each with a different set of growth mindset
words to keep students engaged and learning.
✨Answer Keys: Quick and easy-to-use answer keys for hassle-free grading.
✨ Thought-Provoking Discussion Questions: Facilitate meaningful
conversations that reinforce growth mindset concepts.
✨ Flexible Use: Ideal for morning work, brain breaks, small group activities,
substitute teacher plans, and more.
Are your students in need of a positivity boost? Do you want to create a classroom environment where growth and learning go hand-in-hand? Look no further! Our Growth Mindset Word Searches are here to save the day (and your sanity).
Students often struggle with maintaining a positive attitude and resilience in the face of challenges. This resource introduces and reinforces growth mindset vocabulary in a fun and engaging way, helping students internalize these important concepts.
Let’s face it, getting kids to embrace a growth mindset can feel like herding cats sometimes. But with these word searches, you’ll have them thinking positively and discussing their newfound vocabulary before you can say “perseverance”.
What's Included:
✅ Three Growth Mindset Word Searches
✅ Answer Keys for Each Word Search
✅ Discussion Questions to Promote Classroom Conversations
Whether you're looking to enhance your SEL curriculum, build classroom community, or simply need a reliable activity to keep students engaged, our Growth Mindset Word Searches are the perfect addition to your teaching toolkit. Get ready to watch your students grow, one word search at a time!
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Civic Virtues Card Sort Community Building Moral Values Upper Elementary
By Ciandra Salhab
Looking for an engaging, interactive way to teach civic virtues in your upper elementary classroom? This Civic Virtues Card Sort Activity is perfect for sparking thoughtful discussions, building classroom community, and enhancing your classroom management strategies—all while keeping your students actively involved!
Why You Need This❤️:
As an educator, you know the importance of teaching civic virtues—those essential qualities like respect, responsibility, and open-mindedness that help students grow into thoughtful, engaged citizens. But finding an engaging way to teach these concepts? That can be a challenge. Enter the Civic Virtues Card Sort Activity! This resource not only makes learning about civic virtues fun and interactive but also seamlessly integrates into your classroom management strategies and helps build a positive, respectful classroom environment.
What Makes This a Great Resource⭐:
This card sort activity is more than just a matching game—it's a powerful tool for classroom community-building. Students work together in groups, discussing and debating which virtue matches each definition, fostering teamwork, communication, and deeper understanding. Plus, the included discussion questions take the learning further, encouraging students to connect these virtues to their own lives and experiences. Whether you’re using it as a start-of-year icebreaker, a civics lesson, or a reinforcement of classroom norms, this resource is versatile and effective.
Key Features:
✨Interactive Card Sort: Students actively engage by matching virtues to their definitions in a hands-on, collaborative way.
✨Thought-Provoking Discussion Questions: Ten carefully crafted questions guide students to reflect on the virtues and their importance, leading to meaningful class discussions.
✨Builds Classroom Community: The activity promotes teamwork and respect among students, laying the groundwork for a positive classroom culture.
✨Flexible Use: Perfect for any time of year, across any subject area, whether as a warm-up activity, part of a social studies lesson, or during classroom management discussions.
✨Ready-to-Use: Simply print, cut, and go! The resource includes everything you need to get started right away.
What’s Included:
✅12 Virtue Cards with virtues like self-discipline, courage, and generosity.
✅12 Definition Cards to match with each virtue.
✅10 Discussion Questions to spark thoughtful conversation and reflection.
✅Teacher’s Tips with tips on facilitating the activity.
Why wait to build a classroom culture that values respect, responsibility, and perseverance? This Civic Virtues Card Sort Activity is the perfect way to start meaningful discussions and create a collaborative environment from day one. Whether you’re introducing the concept of civic virtues or reinforcing them throughout the year, this resource is a must-have for any upper elementary classroom. Plus, with the added discussion questions, you’re not just teaching—you're guiding your students to become thoughtful, engaged members of their community.
Grab this resource today and watch your students light up as they explore the values that make a difference—both in the classroom and beyond!
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3rd 4th 5th Grade Back to School One Pager Classroom Community Activity V2
By Ciandra Salhab
Kickstart your students' goal-setting journey with our "Reflection Goal One Pager"! Perfect for the beginning of the school year, this resource helps students set clear objectives and develop action plans, all while engaging their creative side. With multiple templates and detailed prompts, this one pager is a must-have for fostering growth mindset and reflection. Teachers, get ready to witness your students' goals come to life in the most colorful and creative ways!
Key Features:
✨Focus on Growth: Encourages students to think about personal and academic growth.
✨Flexible Templates: Multiple versions to cater to different classroom needs.
✨Student-Centered: Focuses on student interests, goals, and reflections.
✨Visual and Written Elements: Encourages a blend of drawing, writing, and creativity.
What's Included:
**✅**Blank version with just the rubric so kids can start from scratch.
✅Template with just a border for those who don’t want to draw.
✅Template with the title and borders for easy fill-in.
✅Version with the title and no border for ultimate creativity.
Why Teachers Should Purchase:
Problem Solved: Tired of vague "be a better student" goals? This one pager guides students to set goals and actually achieve them.
Value Add: Provides a visual and engaging way to track student progress and reflect on their achievements.
Use this because as a teacher we know "I’ll try harder' just doesn’t cut it anymore!" keep them accountable with their goals this year.
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