4th Grade Classroom Community Activities (by date, oldest first)

After reading orwatching Enemy Pie, students will create their own FRIENDSHIP pie by listing the "ingredients" that make a good friend.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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:

• Yoga lesson plan with written instructions for children grades 1-6
• Detailed instruction for breathing activities, yoga games, poses, and meditations
• 5 yoga cards you can print and cut out
• Activity sheets including mantra cards and worksheets
• Printable posters you can hang up

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.

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.

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:

• What is mindfulness
• How to establish your own mindfulness practice
• How to integrate mindfulness into the K-5 classroom
• A method for developing your daily practice and extend this practice to your students
• How to teach mindfulness activities in a safe, engaging and compassionate way
• Use of the gradual release of responsibility
• 18 mindfulness activities
• Tips and good times for each activity

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:

• What is mindfulness and how to teach mindfulness
• 18 mindfulness activities with instructions, written for kids (K-5)
• 6 mindfulness cards
• 5 mindfulness planners and worksheets perfect for classroom and daily practice planning
• 2 mindfulness activity posters
• 1 worksheet

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.

• Individual license: $175 (sale $99)
• 2-5 educators: $100/person (sale $75/each)
• 5-10 educators:  $80/person (sale $60/each)
• 11-20 educators: $65/person (sale $50/each)
• 21-50 educators: $55/person (sale $40/each)

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.

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

• More self-awareness
• Improved focus
• Attunement to nature
• Experience in mindfulness with real-world context 
• Fun
• Promotes physical and mental wellbeing
• Improved balance 

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:

• Facilitated discussion prompts
• Group activities
• Yoga movement 
• Guided relaxations
• Crafts

Also included are:

• Printable yoga deck to learn five (5) yoga poses
• Tips for yoga and yoga card games
• Four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities
• Five (5) coloring pages 
• An Autumn story to integrate the yoga poses for literacy integration
• Journaling pages to reflect on your practice

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.

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.

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.

A love meditation for children

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!

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.

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.

Make learning antonyms interactive with our set of 40 Antonym Partner Cards! These cards feature pairs of antonyms such as "hot and cold" or "big and small," providing a dynamic way for students to practice language skills while working together. Get rid of the traditional turn and talk and try this new way of pairing and partnering your students.

Key Features:

✨ 40 Unique Antonym Cards: Features 40 pairs of antonyms with clear, colorful images to aid in vocabulary development.

✨ Bright and Colorful Design: Eye-catching visuals that appeal to students and make the activity engaging.

✨ Durable Materials: Print on cardstock and laminated for lasting use throughout the school year.

✨ Versatile Usage: Ideal for icebreakers, collaborative projects, and team-building exercises.

✨ Easy Implementation: Simplifies the process of pairing students and facilitating group activities.

Why You'll Love It:

• Engaging Partnering Activity: Transforms student pairing into a game, increasing motivation and participation.

• Versatile Use: Ideal for icebreakers, collaborative projects, and team-building exercises.

• High-Quality and Durable: Printed on cardstock and laminated for long-term use, ensuring these cards last throughout the school year.

What’s Included:

• 40 antonym cards featuring high-quality, vibrant images

• Antonyms in no particular order:

• Asleep/Awake

• Front/Back - cat

• Big/Small - big and small balloon

• White/Black - sheep

• Bright/Dark - light bulb

• Day/Night

• Clean/Dirty - socks

• Empty/Full - glass

• Fat/Thin - skinny and overweight kid

• Fast/Slow - rabbit and tortoise

• Boy/Girl

• Close/Open - door

• Go/Stop

• Happy/Sad - puppy

• Heavy/Light -

• Long/Short - ruler

• Loud/Quiet

• In/Out - bee and jar

• Hot/Cold - thermometer

• Old/New - teddy bear

How It Helps:

• Promotes Social Interaction: Encourages students to interact and collaborate in a positive and fun manner.

• Easy Classroom Management: Simplifies the process of pairing students, making it quick and efficient.

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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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