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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to add classical music to your classroom or homeschool? Classical music has been shown to provide numerous benefits for children, including reducing stress, improving focus and concentration, and increasing creativity. These activities are great for music appreciation and also help build social-emotional skills! Great for adding to your sub plans.

Classical Space Tale listening sheets combine music appreciation with an intergalactic theme! Students compose their epic space tales by choosing the setting, characters, and familiar space objects inspired by the music. There’s also a drawing box for students to capture a scene from their imaginations. Discuss and display for further engagement!

Learning Objectives

• increased knowledge of composers from different backgrounds
• observe emotional influences within a composition
• familiarity with the composer's works
• ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of music
• identify different instrument sounds
• social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within the music
• creative expression by drawing and choosing colors related to a musical theme

There are no wrong answers, and no musical training is required. Just print and play! Music is available on YouTube or your preferred streaming service.

Featured Music:

1. Clarinet Concerto - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

This packet gives you the resources needed to set up a Calming Corner in your classroom or home. Calming Corners help children deal with their BIG feelings and gain self-regulation skills while they calm down. A Calming Corner can provide children with a safe place to process their emotions and regulate their responses. The Calming Corner can help children de-escalate emotions and anxiety before these feelings become overwhelming. It can also help children filter out sensory information and regain emotional balance.

What’s Included?

Guide for Teachers or Parents

Printable Book “I Can Calm Down” (In Color and B/W)

“Feelings and Emotions” Cards (These cards are my #1 BEST SELLER on TeachShare)

“How do you feel?” Poster

Directions for Yoga Poses

Printable Yoga Cards

Instructions for Calming Breaths

Printable Calming Breath Cards (Can also be used as a poster)

Directions for Making Sensory Bottles

Recipe for Homemade Playdough

Printable Playdough Mats

Help students explore emotions in a fun and engaging way with this Flower Emotions Matching Activity—a hands-on way to build emotional awareness!

Contents:

• 8 Emotion Cards: Features happy, mad, sad, annoyed, worried, surprised, and more.
• 8 Scenario Cards: Real-life situations to help students connect emotions to experiences.
• Self-Checking Key Cards: Allows students to check their answers independently.
• Color & Black-and-White Options: Print in full color or low-ink grayscale.

Why You’ll Love This Product:

• Supports Social-Emotional Learning: Helps students recognize and express emotions.
• Hands-On & Interactive: Engages learners through matching and discussion.
• Great for Independent or Group Work: Use in centers, partner activities, or whole-class lessons.
• Low-Prep & Easy to Use: Just print, cut, and play!

Who This Product Is For:

1. Preschool & Kindergarten Teachers – Ideal for SEL lessons and morning meetings.
2. Special Education Instructors – Great for emotional recognition and communication skills.
3. Homeschool Parents – A simple, engaging way to explore feelings at home.
4. School Counselors & Therapists – Useful for one-on-one or small group activities.
5. After-School & Social Groups – Helps students develop empathy and emotional intelligence.

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Get in the festive spirit with your students by relaxing using these Christmas Mindfulness Breathing Exercise Cards. Enjoy 8 different breathing exercises thinking about some favorite holiday treats! You will enjoy relaxing & breathing with presents, trees, super elves & more!

Included:

8: 8x10 Colorful Visual posters to decorate your classroom or your hallways.

Colorful direction cards to help with your breathing and visualizations

8 small colorful visuals - put them on your lanyard or on your students desks.

❤️Looking for differentiated, Day of the Dead (El Dia de los Muertos) activities that will support your students' social emotional learning needs during the fall season? Your students will love learning about their feelings with these printable sugar skull emotions activities!

✅This activity pack includes play mats (make a feeling with play dough/writing/drawing), vocabulary flashcards, worksheets and more!

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✏️The perfect way to celebrate Day of the Dead, Halloween, Latin American traditions, fall or October!

✏️ Great for kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade!

✏️A wonderful addition to your social emotional learning unit!

✏️ Awesome for literacy centers, art centers, writing centers, morning work, Day of the Dead parties, whole group lessons, independent work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, sensory bins, calming corner, intervention programs and more!

✏️ Use the flash cards to play matching games, memory games, "Go Fish" games, sorting games, card slap games, charades, for write the room activities, coloring, test prep, and more!

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!

⭐️Create a sugar skull bulletin board, door, or hallway display!

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✅ Includes: (62 pages)

☑ Trace/write/create the feeling play mats (50 pages)

☑ Feelings flashcards (4 pages - 4 cards per page)

☑ Feelings worksheets (8 pages)

✅ Bonus: (65 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (2 pages)

☑ Black and white set (62 pages)

✅ Feelings included: (16)

☑ Happy, sad, afraid, excited, surprised, frustrated, disgusted, confused, worried, tired, proud, sorry, calm, playful, silly, jealous

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Discover the ultimate resource for helping your child master the art of calm with our Baby Animal Breathing Exercises, Finger Tracing Calm Down Cards. This 16 card set (plus instructions) is specifically designed to nurture mindfulness for kids and provide a fun, interactive tool for meditation activities and emotion regulation.

Included in this bundle are a variety of baby animals and sea creatures that capture children's interests and imaginations. Each card invites kids to trace their fingers along paths that encourage focused breathing and mindfulness. This simple yet effective technique is a proven anxiety tool for kids, helping them learn how to regulate their feelings and find tranquility in moments of stress.

Perfect for any calm down corner, these cards serve as a practical aid in teaching children how to manage anxiety and stress through controlled breathing. They are ideal for both home, therapy or counseling office and classroom settings, providing a valuable support system for children as they learn to navigate their emotions.

Each card is crafted with care, ensuring that the path is easy to follow and perfectly suited to little hands.

What’s included:

1 file with 17 PDF pages

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A Fun Feelings Worksheet

This worksheet is all about exploring the exciting world of feelings! We all feel different things throughout the day, and this activity will help kids learn the names for those feelings and how to recognize them in yourself and others.

Kids will have fun while learning about 20 emotions and feelings!

This worksheet allows kids to Illustrate the emotions on each blank face to correspond with their feelings.

Let's Be Friends Board Game is a fun and engaging board game designed for young children in preschool and kindergarten. This exciting game teaches valuable lessons about kindness, teamwork, and empathy while promoting social skills in a playful, interactive way.

This game is a part of the larger Play and Purpose Friendship and Feelings curriculum for Kindergarten. It gives a sample of the interactive activities found in the curriculum, which can be used for an individual child, a small group of children or the whole class depending on the needs of the group. Many lessons contain ways to scaffold the learning to your students and allow for the most learning to take place as possible! 

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This 24-page Worry Journal can easily be used for the classroom or individuals at home, of many ages.

The border art is designed to relax, and offer an area to color each day. Try coloring the flowers to match your mood for the day. (Refer to your Mood Chart for colors.)

24 pages include:
1. Mood Coloring Chart : 10 colors with coordinating moods, and clipart objects to color.

2. Mood Coloring Chart Draw your own items indicating the moods of each of them 10 colors.

3. Draw a picture of ....

4. Daily Mood Journal : simple lines for writing areas (print as many copies as needed)

5. Daily Mood Journal : decorative clipart writing areas (print as many copies as needed)

6. Today I Am ...…. write it out. : simple lines (print as many copies as needed)

7. Today I Am ...…. write it out. : decorative clipart writing areas (print as many copies as needed)

8. Let’s Get Grounded : 3-2-1 grounding techniques (answers can be as simple as “got out of bed,” etc.)

9. I Get Anxious.... (drawing, etc)

10. Worry Be Gone ...

11. My Anxious Body ....

12. I Can Fix It (including drawing)

13. Happy Place : draw/write ...

14. Common Worries : Give advice...

15. Worry Jar, Happy Jar : activity instructions

16. My Goals...

17. Grateful ... (NOTE: this page to be used for general worries, and not traumas, as we could never be “thankful” for anything trauma-related).

18. Worry Acrostic Poem

19. I Am Me...

20. Let’s Focus : Write/draw...

21. Daily Mantras : fill in the blanks

22. Compare & Contrast Worry

23. The Worry Monster : write & illustrate...

24. Worry Search : Word Search, 19 happy words & 1 worry

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Worry Journal Coping Skills for anxiety COMP BOOK SEL

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This Emotions Matching Activity makes the perfect Social and Emotional Center for your Kindergarten students this Back to School season. Learners will practice identifying and matching emotions on the animal's faces.

Perfect for use during kindergarten centers or with small groups of students, this emotions matching activity is simple to prepare and can be used again and again. Color and black and white versions are provided and your students will love the fun and cute emotions and faces.

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What is included in this Emotions Matching Back to School Center for Kindergarten?

• Match the Emotions
• Recording Sheets
• Black and White Copies

How do learners complete this Kindergarten Match the Emotions and Faces Activity?

• Present the learners with the matching cards.
• Learners will identify the emotion shown on the cat's face and will match the correct dog's face (emotion) to it.

Preparing this Back to School Kindergarten SEL Center:

• Print the activity pages and laminate.
• Cut apart to create the emotion matching cards.
• Print the recording sheets if required.

How to best use this Back to School SEL Center:

• Explore during morning work 
• Assign as supplemental math centers 
• Implement these centers in an independent way or use them with small-groups.

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Struggling to engage students in emotional intelligence? This activity makes learning about feelings fun and effective!

What it is:

Students become detectives of emotions! They'll read real-life scenarios and use their social-emotional skills to identify the feelings involved. Then, they'll express their understanding by drawing an emotion face in a designated box above the situation.

Benefits for Students:

• Develops Emotional Literacy: Students will learn to recognize and name a wide range of emotions in themselves and others.
• Boosts Empathy: By understanding situations and feelings, students build empathy and become better communicators.
• Enhances Social Skills: This activity fosters emotional regulation and equips students to navigate social situations with confidence.

Benefits for Teachers:

• Engaging and Interactive: This activity keeps students actively involved in learning about social-emotional intelligence.
• Quick and Easy to Implement: No prep needed! Just print the scenarios and let the emotional learning begin.
• Provides Valuable Insights: Observe students' responses to gain a deeper understanding of their emotional awareness.

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Your students will love these good choices and bad choice sorts! Engage your K-2 students with this interactive worksheet and group activity focusing on good choices and bad choices.

This resource includes worksheets, sorts, and activities to help young students understand the concepts of good choices and bad choices. It is perfect for small group lessons on expectations or as a center activity. Teachers can also laminate the group sort for a visual classroom display.

Benefits:

• Multiple options for sorts to teach students about decision-making

Instructions/Tips for Implementation:

Utilize this resource in small group lessons to teach expectations or as a center activity. Laminate the group sort for a long-lasting visual display in the classroom.

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This is a set of 5 worksheets to help students differentiate between Big problem and small problem through different activities and visuals. This makes a great addition to your unit on Size of the Problem!

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• Activities that involve categorizing, matching, drawing, and coloring exercises to help students distinguish between "Big" and "Little" problems.

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• 8 cards total: Four cards featuring examples of "Big Problems" and four for "Little Problems."
• Each set of problem cards is accompanied by a title card labeled either "BIG Problems" or "LITTLE Problems."

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Feelings, Feelings Chart, Feelings Check-In, Checklist – This interactive resource is perfect for helping children express their emotions and identify areas of discomfort. "Where Do You Feel Pain?" is designed for teachers, counselors, and parents to support kids in understanding their physical and emotional well-being.

This resource includes:

• A large body diagram for children to mark areas of pain or discomfort.
• A feelings chart to help kids associate their emotions with physical sensations.
• A check-in checklist to encourage self-awareness and communication.
• Bright, colorful visuals to engage young learners.

Perfect for:

• Classroom emotional check-ins.
• Therapy and counseling sessions.
• Teaching body awareness and fostering self-expression.

Support children in identifying their feelings and needs with this easy-to-use, kid-friendly tool!

Fun Mental health awarenes quotes Coloring Pages For Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice pre-writing skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun gift!

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Looking to celebrate Kindness with your little ones? These adorable puzzles could be just what you are looking for. Students simply color in the image, cut out the pieces, mix them up, and enjoy putting them back together! Great resource for Random Acts of Kindness, World Kindness Day, or any day! Resource comes in colored/black white versions (with the exception of the "All Kind Acts Matter" page)

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EXPLORING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SKILLS FOR LITTLE LEARNERS

Are you on the hunt for a resourceful and interactive way to introduce the concept of focus to young learners? "My Focused Fox" Lesson and Craft is an interactive educational tool designed to teach the executive functioning skill of maintaining focus in a captivating and memorable manner. Perfect for educators, school counselors, and parents, this resource incorporates a charming story, practical tips, and a hands-on craft to engage children in learning how to stay focused on tasks at hand.

"My Focused Fox" Lesson and Craft is a comprehensive package created to foster the development of focus among young children. Through an engaging story about a fox who learns the importance of staying focused, coupled with a tip sheet full of actionable strategies, and a creative craft activity, this resource makes learning about focus fun and effective. Tailored to meet the needs of educators in classroom settings, school counselors in group or individual sessions, and parents looking for educational activities at home, this lesson plan is a versatile tool for teaching foundational executive functioning skills.

THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:

1. Entertaining Story to Read: A delightful story featuring a fox who discovers the power of focus, designed to illustrate the benefits of staying on task in a way that young children can easily understand and relate to.
2. Executive Functioning Tip Sheet: A valuable resource offering educators, counselors, and parents insightful tips and exercises to help children develop and improve their focusing skills. This guide provides practical advice on creating environments and routines that enhance focus.
3. "Build Your Own Focused Fox" Craft: An interactive craft activity that allows children to create their own Focused Fox. Available in both black and white for coloring and full color, this craft reinforces the lesson's theme and promotes fine motor skills.

"My Focused Fox" Lesson and Craft is a unique educational resource that brings the executive functioning skill of focus to life for young learners. By engaging with this lesson plan, children will embark on a journey of discovery, learning the importance of staying focused in a fun and interactive way, setting the foundation for success in learning and beyond.

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Are you looking for meaningful activities to help children understand and appreciate gratitude? Our Gratitude Journal Worksheets for Kids are the perfect resource to nurture a positive mindset and encourage thankfulness.

Designed to be both engaging and educational, these worksheets offer children a structured way to explore and express their gratitude. Ideal for teachers, parents, and counselors, this resource supports social-emotional learning and helps children develop a habit of appreciation.

What’s Included:

• Several Gratitude-Themed Worksheets:
  • Daily gratitude prompts
  • Gratitude reflection pages
  • Thankfulness lists
  • Gratitude drawing activities
  • "I am grateful for" prompts
  • Gratitude letters to loved ones

Benefits of Gratitude Journal Worksheets for Kids:

• Promotes Positive Thinking: Encourages children to focus on positive aspects of their lives, fostering a positive mindset.
• Supports Emotional Well-being: Helps children recognize and express their feelings of gratitude, enhancing emotional intelligence.
• Enhances Writing Skills: Provides opportunities for children to practice writing and reflection through structured prompts.
• Encourages Mindfulness: Engages children in mindful activities that help them appreciate the present moment.

Why Choose Our Gratitude Journal Worksheets?

• Engaging and Fun: Creative prompts and activities keep children interested and motivated to participate.
• Versatile Use: Suitable for classroom use, home activities, or as part of counseling sessions.
• Easy to Use: Ready-to-print worksheets that require no additional preparation.
• Educational Value: Supports social-emotional learning and helps develop important life skills.

Incorporate the Gratitude Journal Worksheets for Kids into your daily routine and watch as children develop a deeper sense of appreciation and positivity. Perfect for classroom activities, home learning, or as a part of therapy sessions. Order your set today and start cultivating gratitude in young minds!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.

This Printable Emotions Wheel for kids by “The Fun Sheep” is the perfect tool to help kids explore and understand their feelings in a fun and engaging way

Encourage open communication about feelings with your child using this interactive Emotions Wheel. With a simple spin of the wheel, your child can express their emotions and share what they're feeling each day. This tool is particularly valuable during moments of difficulty in communication, offering a visual aid to bridge the gap

Adaptable to different stages of development, kids can switch the wheel from toddler mode, featuring 4 emotions, to the pre-k and kindergarten stage, showcasing 8 emotions. This transition offers an opportunity for them to progressively identify and understand a wider range of feelings

What comes in the product:

- 4 Emotions Wheel for toddler (includes black & white)

- 8 Emotions Wheel for pre-k and kindergarten stage (includes black & white)

- Emotions included are: Happy, Angry, Sad, Scared, Surprised, Confused, Silly, Bored

- 6 pages to print

- A4 paper Size

- Best to print on card stock (Colors will vary depending on printer used)

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Looking for fun activities to keep your early and fast finishers busy? Squiggle Stories are a fun activity that lets your kiddos complete a picture drawing and write their own creative story. If you're looking for FUN activities to incorporate during downtime or on "think outside the box Thursdays" then look no further! Perfect for K-2, These finish the picture drawing worksheets with Primary Writing Lines will help your students to think outside the box and get creative! These activities are designed to let your student’s imagination take the lead!

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• brain breaks
• sub-work
• indoor recess
• snack time
• morning work
• early finishers
• mindfulness activities
• free choice
• Think Outside the Box Thursdays
• decompress after testing
• end of year

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