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Secret Mission Behavior Management Activity to encourage positivity
By Until the Pieces Fit
Are you looking for an easy way to improve student behaviors? This is a fun, easy, print and go activity.
I use the secret missions with my students. Simply print the packet, cut out, and post the missions in your room (be sure to cover each mission with a "secret mission" card".
Then the magic begins. Each morning during your morning meeting time chose a kiddo to uncover a mission. Discuss the mission, the importance of it, what it looks like. I generally have a secret task force who also watches for the behaviors. Then when your children are "caught" they earn a party point/tally/ball (whatever reinforcer you use) for your class. Currently my kids are working to earn hot chocolate with toppings.
I hope this is something fun for you and your kiddos. Please be sure to follow me for additional resources and updates!
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Matching Emotions and Faces - Kindergarten Back to School SEL Center
By The Chatty Kinder
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.
⭐ This printable is also part of the following bundles:
-Kindergarten Back to School Math and Literacy Centers
What is included in this Emotions Matching Back to School Center for Kindergarten?
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Growth Mindset Interactive SEL Activity + BONUS ideas included!
By Jeni Donath
An interactive Growth Mindset main activity + more included! Ideas provided for multiple grade levels to maximize your use! This activity puts an overall focus on introducing or better understanding growth mindset and what it sounds like, while also providing opportunity to turn it up a notch and have students come up with their own growth mindset statements and work toward building that skill. Interactive, engaging, and makes an impact! It's a win, win, win for classrooms!! Colored and black and white copies available. Everything you need for a full lesson provided!
Interactive COMMUNICATION Social-Emotional Learning Lessons + Activities
By Jeni Donath
A full MONTH of communication activities ready to go! Do your students love interactive and hands-on learning experiences that are also engaging and fun? This digital download provides FOUR ready to use lessons that focus on communication and working respectfully with others, while also working through challenges, with a hint of perseverance all wrapped into four consecutive lessons! The lessons provided can be used as solo activities or for consecutive weeks, as they build off of one another nicely and provide a continuation of both review of the previous activity while also creating more of a challenge with each "level up" to continue skill building. My students LOVED each of these activities and I was able to adjust and use my creativity to use this with multiple grade levels! We had a blast and were able to practice our communication skills in fun and interactive ways. Instructions included on each slide for all four activities. Enjoy!!
Kindness Activity - "Hot Potato" - Interactive SEL Classroom Lessons
By Jeni Donath
What better way to learn kindness than by practicing and experiencing it firsthand! Get ready to have a blast with your students - this is a fun one!! This download includes THREE interactive SEL activities to introduce kindness ideas, invite creative thinking, and provide “real-time” practice of the trait! This is such a fun way to get students talking, creating, and engaging... all while being kind to one another! Digital download gives detailed instructions on how to play each version of the activity as well as 15 "pair matches" to be used in the activity (or for other uses in your classroom!)
Looking for other kindness activities for your students? See links below:
Kindness Activity and the Impact of our Words
Kindness Activity - Class "Snowball Fight"
"Think Before You Speak" - Interactive SEL Activity
Leadership Superheroes - An SEL Activity
By Jeni Donath
Leadership Superheroes - what will your super powers be? This activity was a blast and my students loved learning more about each superhero and creating fun ways that they could use their leadership powers to help in our school as well as in the different scenarios. Use it to decide which superhero may be the best fit for the job OR talk about how each superhero could be helpful per scenario using their own strengths! A follow up worksheet, reflection questions, and a take home craft included in download!
Kind Action vs Unkind Action - An Interactive SEL Activity
By Jeni Donath
"Kind or Trash" gives a fun new outlook on discussing kind vs unkind actions for younger elementary students. While the discussion is great, this activity also gets them up and moving and looking forward to their turn! This activity had my classes engaged through the entire lesson and it created great conversation as well! The basket and recycling bin is a great visual for students as they are recognizing kind vs unkind actions.
If you are looking for other ways to bring kindness activities into your classroom, check out the links below (for all ages!):
Kindness Activity and the Impact of Our Words (Best seller!) - Middle School
Kindness Classroom "Snowball Fight" - Upper Elementary
Kindness "Hot Potato" - Elementary/Middle School
Know Your Impact - Middle School/High School
"Snow Shovel" - Interactive Team Building, Academic Skills Review Activity
By Jeni Donath
If you are looking for a fun, engaging, and interactive activity for your elementary students - this is for you!! This activity gets students working together, up and moving around, while they also practice perseverance, self-control, patience, and so much more! Add academic questions to each of the "snowballs" that they must answer to finish the race and watch all of the learning happen! So. Much. Fun!
Active Listening Card Game: Listening Detective l Social Skills Games
By Specifically Sped
Introducing "Listening Detective" – a captivating and educational card game designed to enhance elementary students' attentive listening skills when engaging with speakers. This game promotes the development of listening comprehension, social skills, and counseling skills in a fun and interactive manner.
Key Features:
1. Active Listening Focus: The game's primary objective is to improve active listening by encouraging players to attentively listen to speakers during the gameplay. By actively engaging in the game, students will enhance their ability to comprehend and interpret spoken information.
2. Social Skills Development: "Listen & Learn" promotes the development of essential social skills, such as turn-taking, active listening, and respectful communication. As players engage in conversations, they learn to respect others' speaking turns, actively listen to their peers, and respond appropriately, fostering positive social interactions.
3. Counseling Support: The game serves as a valuable resource for counselors working with elementary students. It provides an interactive and engaging platform to address listening skills, social interactions, and comprehension abilities, facilitating counseling sessions in an enjoyable and effective manner.
Active Listening Bundle: Social Story and Card Game l Social Skills Lesson
By Specifically Sped
Introducing the "Active Listening Social Narrative: Building Whole Body Listening and Friendship Skills"! This social Narrative is a valuable resource designed to promote active listening, enhance social skills, and support classroom management, particularly for individuals with autism or other social communication challenges. This engaging counseling activity encourages students to develop essential friendship skills.
The social narrative revolves around "whole body listening," which teaches students to listen with their ears and entire bodies. It emphasizes the importance of paying attention, making eye contact, facing the speaker, keeping hands and feet still, and having a focused mind. Following these guidelines, students can become active and attentive listeners, fostering positive social interactions and relationships.
Introducing "Introducing "Listen & Learn: Active Listening Board Game" – a captivating and educational card game designed to enhance elementary students' attentive listening skills when engaging with speakers. This game promotes the development of listening comprehension, social skills, and counseling skills in a fun and interactive manner.
Key Features:
1. Active Listening Focus: The game's primary objective is to improve active listening by encouraging players to attentively listen to speakers during the gameplay. By actively engaging in the game, students will enhance their ability to comprehend and interpret spoken information.
2. Social Skills Development: "Listen & Learn" promotes the development of essential social skills, such as turn-taking, active listening, and respectful communication. As players engage in conversations, they learn to respect others' speaking turns, actively listen to their peers, and respond appropriately, fostering positive social interactions.
3. Counseling Support: The game serves as a valuable resource for counselors working with elementary students. It provides an interactive and engaging platform to address listening skills, social interactions, and comprehension abilities, facilitating counseling sessions in an enjoyable and effective manner.
Listening Detective– a captivating and educational card game designed to enhance elementary students' attentive listening skills when engaging with speakers. This game promotes the development of listening comprehension, social skills, and counseling skills in a fun and interactive manner.
Key Features:
1. Active Listening Focus: The game's primary objective is to improve active listening by encouraging players to attentively listen to speakers during the gameplay. By actively engaging in the game, students will enhance their ability to comprehend and interpret spoken information.
2. Social Skills Development: "Listen & Learn" promotes the development of essential social skills, such as turn-taking, active listening, and respectful communication. As players engage in conversations, they learn to respect others' speaking turns, actively listen to their peers, and respond appropriately, fostering positive social interactions.
3. Counseling Support: The game serves as a valuable resource for counselors working with elementary students. It provides an interactive and engaging platform to address listening skills, social interactions, and comprehension abilities, facilitating counseling sessions in an enjoyable and effective manner.
Back to School Ice Breaker & Get to Know You Movement Games & Activities
By Kimberly
❤️Looking for fun activities to welcome your students, break the ice, and get them laughing during the first week of school? Your students will have a blast getting to know each other and building community with these engaging movement games and printable worksheet activities!
❤️Students can move and laugh while getting to know each other, building community, practicing their writing skills, cooperation, communication skills, and fine motor skills.
❤️Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first or second grade students!
⭐️Check out the preview and video preview for more details!
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✏️ Game 1 - "Step Forward":
✏️ Game 2 - "Find a Friend":
Students each choose a game card (or you can assign them). Students read their card and walk around the room to find a classmate (or classmates) that fit the description on the card.
Directions and alternative game options included!
✏️ Building Community Worksheets:
Designed for students to get to know each other, practice writing, build communication skills, fine motor skills, and incorporate movement.
Game cards can be laminated and used over and over again throughout the school year or at the beginning of the next school year!
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✅ Included: (50 pages)
☑ "Step Forward" game cards - text only (10 pages - 60 cards)
☑ "Find a Friend" game cards - text only (10 pages - 60 cards)
☑ "Find a Friend" game cards - text & pictures (10 pages - 60 cards)
☑ Differentiated worksheets & recording sheets (20 pages)
✅ Bonus:
☑ Table of contents
☑ Black and white set
☑ How to play instructions
☑ Alternative game options
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Back to School Activities Growing Bundle
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Back to School - Bingo Game
Back to School - Printable Activities Pack
Back to School - Letter Counting Clip Cards
Back to School - Counting School Objects Task Cards
Back to School - Centers Task Cards & Play Mats
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Mental health awareness Month Cut And Paste worksheets - Fun crafts Activities
By The Students Palace
Fun Cutting And Pasting | Scissor Skills Activity Pages For Kids And Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice by cutting and Gluening skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun and educational gift For Mental health awarenes Month !
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
30 Cut And Paste Worksheets
pages ( PDF + PNG)
Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper
High-resolution images
Unlimited prints
Great for kids, boys and girls
JUST DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND GET STARTED
This item comes as a high-resolution PDF + PNG files that you can download straight after purchasing.
You can print as many copies as you want.
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This is a digital item.
No physical product or printed material will be shipped.
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Size of the Problem vs Reaction Game | FREEBIE
By Spark Interest with Sara
This resource was inspired by a game I play with my preschool students when thinking about Size of a Problem vs Our Reactions.
This fun game will get your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten students thinking & engaging with the idea that our reactions will differ according to the size of a problem. It works perfectly with your Unit on Problem Solving.
What’s included in Size of the Problem VS Reaction Game?
• 15 Common Scenarios
• 8 Different reactions
When to play this Size of the Problem VS Reaction game?
•Play this game as a whole group activity to reinforce learning.
•Great addition to your unit on problem solving.
How to Play this Size of the Problem vs Reaction Game?
1. Invite a student up to pick out one scenario and one reaction card.
2. Have them act out the scene. Appropriate or not, encourage your student to act it out.
For example, a student may choose:
Scenario: a broken pencil
Reaction: throw yourself on the floor and cry uncontrollably
3. This might lead to some giggles, but now is the time to activate their critical thinking skills with some of the discussion question provided.
Looking for more Size of the Problem Activities? Check out my Size of the Problem | BUNDLE
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SEL Board Game Social and Emotional Learning Friendship Activity
By Kyla McHenry
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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Identifying Feelings and Emotions with Ghosts, Calming Corner Helpers
By Creative Soul Printables
Help students identify their emotions with this interactive Ghost Feelings Poster! Featuring 12 feelings with matching cards, it’s a spooky-fun way to build emotional awareness in the classroom.
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The Ghost Feelings Poster is a creative and engaging tool for teaching emotional awareness. Featuring 12 ghostly emotions—happy, mad, sad, tired, scared, annoyed, anxious, naughty, silly, surprised, worried, and bored—this poster makes it easy for students to express how they feel. Each feeling comes with a matching card that students can place on the poster, helping them recognize and understand their emotions in a visual, hands-on way. This resource creates a safe space for emotional expression while making it fun with a ghost theme that’s perfect for any time of the year.
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Teachers simply hang the Ghost Feelings Poster in a prominent area of the classroom. Students use the emotion cards to choose the one that best describes how they’re feeling and place it on the poster. Whether they’re feeling happy, tired, or surprised, this interactive process encourages students to reflect on their emotions throughout the day, giving teachers the opportunity to foster meaningful conversations and emotional learning.
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Teachers will love this product because it promotes self-awareness and emotional development in a fun, ghost-themed format. The bright and engaging visuals make it easy for students to understand and select their feelings, while the hands-on activity promotes participation. With 12 key emotions represented, students will gain a better understanding of how to express their feelings, making it a valuable tool for emotional literacy in the classroom.
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Identifying Feelings and Emotions with Spiders, Calming Corner Helpers
By Creative Soul Printables
Help students express their emotions with this fun Spider Feelings Poster! Featuring 11 feelings with matching cards, it’s the perfect tool for encouraging emotional awareness in the classroom.
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The Spider Feelings Poster is an engaging way to help students identify and express their emotions in the classroom. This resource includes a poster with a cute spider theme, displaying 11 different feelings—happy, mad, sad, tired, scared, loved, anxious, sick, silly, surprised, and bored—along with 11 matching cards. Students can select the card that best represents how they feel and place it in the center of the poster. This hands-on activity encourages self-awareness and emotional expression in a simple, visual format that kids love.
How the Product is Used:
Teachers hang the Spider Feelings Poster in a visible area of the classroom. Students visit the poster throughout the day, select the matching card that reflects their current emotion—whether they feel tired, silly, or anxious—and place it on the spider-themed poster. This activity provides an interactive and visual way for students to explore their feelings, offering opportunities for teachers to support emotional learning and meaningful discussions.
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Teachers will love this resource because it promotes emotional learning and self-expression in a fun and manageable way. It helps create a supportive and open environment for students to share how they feel. With its spider theme and bright, engaging visuals, students will enjoy choosing their emotions and learning about different feelings such as happy, loved, or scared. The interactive design encourages children to participate, making it an easy and effective tool for emotional development.
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Identifying Feelings and Emotions with Pumpkins, Calming Corner Helpers
By Creative Soul Printables
Help students express their emotions with this Pumpkin Feelings Poster! Featuring 12 different feelings and matching cards, this interactive activity encourages emotional awareness and self-expression.
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The Pumpkin Feelings Poster is the perfect tool to help students identify and express their emotions in a fun, visual way. This resource includes a large poster featuring 12 different pumpkin-themed feelings—happy, sad, mad, tired, silly, surprised, bored, scared, loved, anxious, naughty, and worried—along with 12 matching cards. Students can easily engage by selecting the card that best matches how they're feeling and placing it in the center of the poster. Whether it's used for a morning check-in or an emotional break, this product supports emotional learning in a creative, engaging format.
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Teachers simply hang the Pumpkin Feelings Poster on the wall and place the matching cards nearby. Throughout the day, students can visit the poster, choose a card that represents their current emotional state—such as happy, mad, or worried—and place it in the designated spot on the poster. This activity not only helps students develop emotional awareness but also opens up opportunities for meaningful conversations about their feelings.
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Teachers will love this resource because it encourages emotional development and fosters self-expression in the classroom. It’s a simple yet effective way to create a positive learning environment where students feel safe discussing their emotions. Students will love choosing their pumpkin-themed feeling cards—like silly, anxious, or loved—and learning about different emotions in a fun, interactive way. The bright, engaging visuals and hands-on element make it enjoyable for young learners.
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Identifying Feelings and Emotions with Suns, Calming Corner Helpers
By Creative Soul Printables
Help young learners identify and express their emotions with this Sun Themed Feelings Poster. Perfect for preschoolers to 1st graders and homeschoolers, this engaging resource features 10 different sun-themed feeling cards to help children communicate their current emotions effectively.
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Identifying Feelings and Emotions with Lemonade, Calming Corner Helpers
By Creative Soul Printables
Engage young learners in social-emotional learning with this fun Lemonade-Themed Feelings Poster, perfect for preschool to 1st grade and homeschool settings!
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Transform your classroom into an interactive emotional learning environment with our Lemonade-Themed Feelings Poster. This set includes 10 emotion cards, each featuring a unique lemonade-themed illustration and the corresponding feeling name. Students can select the card that matches their current emotion and place it in the center of the poster, helping them to identify and express their feelings. The emotions included are happy, sad, mad, loved, surprised, silly, tired, sick, laughing, and scared. This activity is perfect for developing emotional awareness and communication skills in young learners.
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For Teachers: This Lemonade-Themed Feelings Poster is an excellent tool for fostering emotional intelligence in your classroom. It encourages students to recognize and articulate their feelings, leading to a more harmonious classroom environment. The visually engaging lemonade theme captures students' attention and makes learning about emotions fun and relatable.
For Students: Young learners will love the colorful and playful lemonade illustrations that make it easy and enjoyable to identify their feelings. By using this interactive poster, they will develop better emotional awareness and communication skills, which are essential for their overall development.
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