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Kind Hands Lesson Package

By SEN Resource Source

Lesson package encouraging children to use kind hands and giving ideas of how to do this.

Why do you need this?

This lesson package can help teachers establish clear expectations for respectful behavior in the classroom, emphasizing the importance of treating others with kindness and empathy.

By focusing on the concept of "kind hands," teachers can support students' social-emotional development, helping them understand the impact of their actions on others and develop empathy and compassion. Teaching students about kind hands can contribute to creating a positive and inclusive classroom culture, reducing incidents of bullying and conflict by promoting empathy and respect for others.

How and when might you use this?

Due to the content of this lesson package it can be quite flexible in the range of ages it can be used with. A teacher might use a lesson about kind hands at various points throughout the school year, depending on the needs of their students and the classroom dynamics.

What is included?

· Lesson planning

· Teaching slides

· Worksheet

· Kind Hands Social story

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Social Skills in special education Following directions adapted book & activity

By Until the Pieces Fit

Adaptive Books & followup materials focused on following directions.

Following Directions: Adaptive books are interactive, as students will match the corresponding icon to each page. The books 2 levels and they are in color and in black and white. Level 1: short paragraph about different scenarios in which students need to follow directions (bathroom, dismissal, computer, work, snack, recess, & games. Level 2: book contains repetitive text "I will listen to my teacher when ....".

Following Directions Supplemental worksheets: Print and go worksheets! They are designed for student who need additional practice with simple directions. Use these during direct instruction & after reading the adaptive stories.

•Match direction to picture

•Match picture to picture

•Following directions with colors

•Following directions with positions.

These books do require some prep work, however once you have them made you can reuse for years to come! I have utilized adaptive books with students who have a wide range of skills & they can be an excellent motivator. I hope you enjoy and please reach out with any questions!!

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Back to School SEL and Community Building Toolkit for Middle School 10 protocols

By TooBookedUp

Elevate your middle school classroom environment with our "Ultimate SEL and Community Building Toolkit." This all-encompassing resource is expertly crafted to enrich your classroom with Social Emotional Learning (SEL), community builders, behavior management techniques, and much more. Whether you're hitting the reset button mid-year, kicking off a new semester, or integrating SEL into your daily curriculum, this toolkit is your go-to resource.

What’s Included:

  • 20 Themed Community Circles: Dive into 20 meticulously prepared community circles, each with five thought-provoking questions. Themes range from empathy and leadership to bystander awareness, complete with opening and closing rounds for meaningful discussions. (PowerPoint slides)
  • "Picture This" Activity: Leverage technology with our 25 creative photo prompts, encouraging students to share and connect through images from their phones. (PowerPoint slides)
  • "Cross the Line" Interactive Slides: Engage your class with 25 dynamic slides featuring prompts about family, identity, and school life, perfect for fostering understanding and empathy. (PowerPoint slides)
  • "Who Am I?" Game: A fun, interactive way for students to share unique facts about themselves, enhancing peer connections. (PDF)
  • Peer Mediation Worksheet: Empower student leaders with our structured peer mediation worksheet, guiding them to resolve conflicts effectively. (PDF)
  • "Find Someone Who" Icebreakers: Seven sets of themed icebreakers, ranging from current trends to school life, music, movies, and pop culture, are perfect for building a vibrant classroom community. (PDF)
  • Classroom Time Capsule: Capture the essence of your classroom with a timeless activity, including thoughtful prompts and ideas for items to include. (PDF)
  • 20 Gratitude Journal Prompts: Foster a culture of appreciation with prompts that encourage reflective writing and gratitude. (PDF)
  • Student Spotlight Worksheet: Shine a light on individual students, promoting recognition and positive affirmations within your class. (PDF)
  • Empathy Interviews: Deepen understanding and empathy with 10 sets of interview questions, encouraging meaningful peer-to-peer connections. (PDF)

Each activity in this toolkit comes with comprehensive protocols, clear instructions, essential materials lists, suggested teacher dialogues, and practical considerations. Additionally, you'll find ready-to-use worksheets or engaging Slide presentations to seamlessly integrate these activities into your daily teaching routine.

Ideal For:

  • SEL Coordinators
  • Middle School Teachers
  • Behavior Management Specialists
  • New Teachers or Mid-Year Classroom Resets
  • Beginning of the Year Activities

Highlights

  1. Content Quality and Quantity: This toolkit is comprehensive, offering a wide range of activities with detailed guides, which adds significant value.
  2. Preparation and Time Saved: Consider the time and effort you’ve saved for other teachers in preparing these activities.
  3. Usability and Reusability: The resource is versatile and reusable throughout the year, adding to its long-term value.

This toolkit is more than just a collection of activities; it's a pathway to creating a nurturing, empathetic, and engaged classroom community. Equip yourself with this invaluable resource and witness the transformative power of SEL in your middle school classroom!

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Social and Emotional Learning Activities Being a Good Friend Lessons

By Kyla McHenry

What does it mean to be a friend? It's such an important life lesson for kids! Help teach your students about qualities of a good friend and how to make friends with other children.

This project based learning bundle includes:

Let's Be Friends Board Game

How to be a Friend Bingo

Friendship Book Suggestions

Friends are Fun Memory Game

Making Friends book

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Smile Emoji Themed Great Day Collaborative Coloring Oversized Poster

By Brittany Henderson

Working collaboratively can be engaging and easy. Smiling emojis are ready for students to create together. This oversized collaborative coloring poster with a positive message is ready for students to work together! The smiling faces and groovy lines are sure to get the message across - Every day is a great day!

This poster will be a fun and unique addition to your school hallways or classroom!

This collaborative poster is ready for: 

  • A counseling or SEL lesson
  • Back to School
  • Open House
  • Early Finishers
  • During a Unit of Study
  • Indoor Recess 
  • Practicing Communication and Cooperation Skills.

Includes:

  • 24 coloring pages to make one large poster
  • Size: Approximately 3.5 x 4 ft
  • Letter size coloring sheet with the main image for individual completion.

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Upside-Down Candyland Movement Game.

By Art Shack by JB

These creative Upside-Down Candyland Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

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Spreading Rumors Social Story

By Sign with me TOD

This product includes 1 social story that focuses on spreading rumors. Vocabulary that is reviewed and discussed in depth include - spreading rumors, positive self-esteem, negative self-esteem, gossiping, reputation, and the expression - fight fire with fire.

Students will also learn about the following - how spreading rumors can impact self-esteem, how you will feel when you have positive self-esteem, how you will feel when you have negative self-esteem, how to build self-esteem, how one would feel if a rumor was spread about them or how one would feel if they spread a rumor and the person that spread a rumor found out, the negative impacts of spreading rumors, what to do if someone spreads a rumor about you, and 1 social story that focuses on a student spreading a rumor about another student supposedly cheating off his test.

The social story includes comprehension questions throughout. Some of the questions require students to put their feet in the shoes of the characters. This product encourages students to understand the negative impacts spreading rumors may have, how someone would feel if a rumor was spread about them, and a mature way to how to handle a situation when a rumor is spread.

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GOAL GETTER! Behavior Management System | Classroom Management | Classroom Forms

By That Christian Educator

GOAL GETTER! Behavior Management System | Classroom Management | Classroom Forms

Have you ever had a student who still struggled with behavior despite going through all of the steps of your classroom management system? Help is here! This "Goal Getter" behavior management system is built on the premise of involving students in setting goals and earning rewards. This system makes this easy by providing goal cards, tracker cards, as well as a list of rewards. What's more, both the goal cards as well as the rewards chart are editable!

Goal setting, made easy!

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-Academic goal cards in 2 designs, original design editable

-Behavior goal cards in 2 designs, original design editable

-Goal getter reward tracker, 2 designs

-Goal getter rewards chart, 2 designs, both editable

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Halloween Lapbook - Fall Craft Activity for Calming Strategies & Coping Skills

By Mrs Bell The Crafty Counselor

Welcome to Willow’s "Enchanted Pumpkin Patch," the ultimate Halloween or Fall Activity. This Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) activity is designed to help elementary school counselors, teachers, educators, and parents teach valuable calming strategies and coping skills.

This engaging and interactive lapbook resource is the perfect addition to your Halloween activities and SEL curriculum.

In today's fast-paced world, children often face various challenges and emotions that can be overwhelming. The "Enchanted Pumpkin Patch" provides a magical and fun way to equip kids with essential skills to manage their emotions and build resilience.

Key Features:

  • Engaging Halloween Theme: Dive into a captivating Halloween adventure with Willow, the friendly witch. Make learning about calming strategies exciting and relatable for children. Help Willow collect calming strategies pumpkins that help her to face various situations. 

  • 45 Real-Life Scenarios: Explore 45 different scenarios that children commonly encounter in their lives, such as dealing with frustration, disappointment, nervousness, and more. Each scenario provides a unique opportunity to practice calming strategies.

  • Interactive: Kids actively participate by stacking calming strategies pumpkins onto Willow's magic hat. "They will stack the pumpkins, helping equip Willow with all the strategies she could need! This hands-on approach helps reinforce learning and decision-making skills.

  • SEL Integration: "Enchanted Pumpkin Patch" seamlessly integrates with your existing SEL curriculum, promoting self-awareness, self-regulation, and responsible decision-making.

  • Teacher and Parent-Friendly: This resource is designed with educators and parents in mind. Easily incorporate it into your classroom lessons, counseling sessions, or home activities.

This fun activity can be used year-round but is especially impactful and captivating during the Halloween spooky season. 

Why "Enchanted Pumpkin Patch" Matters:

  • Empower Children: Equip children with essential tools to manage their emotions effectively and build resilience.
  • Promote Positive Behavior: Teach kids to make thoughtful choices when faced with challenging situations.
  • Halloween Fun: Incorporate the excitement of Halloween into your SEL lessons while keeping them neutral and respectful, aligning with educational standards.
  • Boost Engagement: The interactive nature of this resource keeps kids engaged and excited about learning.

"Enchanted Pumpkin Patch" is a lapbook activity that allows educators, counselors, and parents to effortlessly guide children as they learn new calming strategies and coping skills.

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Varying Emotions Clipart Set with Emotions and Feelings Chart

By Sarebear Designs

This Emotions clip art set includes 18 different emotion graphics (36 total including black and white), as well as a printable emotions/feelings chart that can be used to help you and your students identify how they're feeling!

Emotions Included:

  • Content
  • Happy
  • Joyful or Excited
  • Gloomy or Down
  • Sad
  • Miserable
  • Irritated or Annoyed
  • Angry
  • Furious
  • Startled
  • Surprised
  • Shocked
  • Nervous or Shy
  • Anxious
  • Overwhelmed
  • Worried or Concerned
  • Afraid or Scared
  • Terrified

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Daily Folder BUNDLE | Seasonal Monthly Weekly Behavior Calendar Reading Log

By Lucy's Little Learners

Simplify your classroom management and student tracking with this comprehensive Daily Folder Take Home Folder BUNDLE! This bundle includes seasonal monthly and weekly behavior calendars and a reading log, offering everything you need for your student's daily folders or take home folders.

What’s Included:

  • Seasonal Monthly Behavior Calendars to track student behavior in a fun, themed way each month.
  • Weekly Behavior Calendars for detailed daily tracking with room for parent communication.
  • Reading Log Alternative These reading logs use 10 frames to monitor reading progress, combining math and reading in a simple format that is great for little learners.

Key Features:

  • Save Money: This bundle is offered at over 20% off as compared to purchasing each product separately.
  • Time Saving: Behavior tracking and reading logs all in one place, saving you time and keeping everything together.
  • Seasonal themes: Fun, kid-friendly designs that change with the seasons, keeping students engaged year-round.
  • Undated Stop worrying about updating calendars each year! Each product is undated so it can be used year after year. If you want to add dates, you can easily write in before copying!
  • Monthly or weekly tracking: Choose what works best for your students to monitor student behavior and progress.
  • Parent communication tool: Keep parents informed and involved with easy-to-use logs and calendars.

Perfect for elementary teachers, this Daily Folder BUNDLE helps streamline classroom management while promoting positive behavior and reading development. Whether you’re managing behavior, tracking reading progress, or communicating with parents, this bundle has you covered!

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Social Emotional-Learning | Teaching Kindness & Classroom Culture at Snow Camp

By Sweet Maple Teaching

This social-emotional learning resource includes the tools you need to teach positive classroom culture and kindness mid-year after students return from winter break. Our SEL activities are set up to teach two weeks' worth of social-emotional learning with an emphasis on Zones of Regulation. You'll teach your students to show kindness and empathy towards others in a fun and engaging way. The activities can also be taught throughout the winter season to build classroom community.

What's Included:

  • 12 printable activities available in full-page activity worksheets
  • 8 different writing activities to focus on social-emotional learning and kindness.
  • Peer to Peer collaborative games
  • Zones of Regulation focused activities
  • Engaging whole group activities
  • 3 classroom posters with kindness quotes and wall decor
  • Kindness activities for both whole group and individual learning.
  • Student reflections on kindness, empathy, and emotional regulation
  • Individual student emotion cool-down cards for binder rings
  • Certificate of completion when Kindness Snow Camp is finished.
  • Calisthenic exercises to engage students with learning.
  • Making compliments sentence starter guide and apology template to assist students in problem-solving and sharing kind thoughts.

Your students will grow so much with kindness, empathy, and understanding of their emotions when you take the time to teach these after winter break. I hope this resource helps you build the necessary skills for your students to care for and respect each other.

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Alphabet Serenity Coloring Sheets Set #1 - Composition & Spiral Name Cover Pages

By Manic Math Teacher

Introducing the "Alphabet Serenity Coloring Sheets" – a delightful collection of composition or spiral notebook-sized coloring pages that feature each letter of the alphabet as a captivating and customizable cover page. This unique set is designed to infuse your notebooks with a personal touch while offering a calming and creative outlet.

With "Alphabet Serenity Coloring Sheets," each letter transforms into an artistic canvas waiting for your artistic expression. Whether you're a student looking to personalize your study materials or someone who appreciates the therapeutic benefits of coloring, these pages provide an opportunity to unleash your creativity.

The intricate designs of each letter encourage you to select colors that resonate with your mood and personality, turning every letter into a work of art that reflects you. As you color, you'll find a moment of serenity amid the demands of your day, experiencing the soothing effect of creative expression.

These coloring sheets aren't just about aesthetics; they also add a touch of mindfulness to your routine. Engaging in the coloring process allows you to be fully present, focusing your attention on the strokes of your coloring tool and the hues you choose. It's a moment of quiet mindfulness, a brief respite from the hustle and bustle.

Whether you're crafting a personalized notebook cover, indulging in creative expression, or seeking a mindful escape, the "Alphabet Serenity Coloring Sheets" provide an engaging and enriching experience. Elevate your everyday with these coloring sheets that celebrate the beauty of each letter and the creativity within you.


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Out of My Mind Sharon Draper Movie Guide and Activities Grades 5+

By TooBookedUp

Bring the heartwarming and inspiring Disney+ adaptation of Out of My Mind into your classroom with this comprehensive movie guide and activity bundle. Perfect for grades 5-8, this resource engages students in thoughtful discussion, critical analysis, and creative reflection while exploring key themes of inclusion, perseverance, and advocacy.

What’s Included:

Pre-Watching Activities:

  • Agree/Disagree/Justify Statements: Students reflect on key themes like inclusion, disability, and perseverance before viewing the movie.
  • Author Investigation: Research questions about Sharon M. Draper’s life, career, and motivations for writing Out of My Mind.

During-Watching Questions:

  • 3 Open-Ended Discussion Questions: Encourage critical thinking and active viewing, focusing on the film’s characters, themes, and key moments.

Post-Watching Reflection:

  • Creative Reflection Choices: Students choose from a variety of activities, including:

  • A personal essay exploring connections to Melody’s story.

  • A diary entry written from the perspective of a character.

  • A 6-panel brochure highlighting the movie’s plot, characters, and themes.

Skills Covered:

  • Critical Thinking: Through open-ended questions and reflection activities.
  • Research Skills: Investigating Sharon M. Draper’s life and work.
  • Creative Expression: Writing diary entries, essays, or designing brochures.
  • Empathy and Inclusion: Exploring themes that challenge perspectives and foster understanding.

Why Teachers Love It:

Engaging & Flexible: Perfect for a wide range of learners with multiple activity options.
Low Prep: Ready-to-use activities designed for easy implementation.
Standards-Aligned: Meets objectives in reading comprehension, writing, and critical thinking.

Perfect For:

  • Movie Companion Activities
  • SEL Lessons on Inclusion and Perseverance
  • Sub Plans or Flexible Learning Days
  • Cross-Curricular Connections in ELA and Social Studies

This complete guide offers everything you need to turn Out of My Mind into a powerful teaching moment. Inspire your students to think deeply, reflect creatively, and grow in understanding with this must-have resource. Grab it today!

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Emotional Identification Happiness Social and Emotional Learning Activitities

By Kyla McHenry

Emotions are BIG in preschool classrooms and at home! In order to learn and grow, children first need to be able to express how they feel and why they feel that way. Placing an emphasis on social emotional learning will help equip your students with skills to become better learners and ultimately better people. This learning unit has been designed with children aged 3 to 4 years old in mind, and contains 10 games, drawing activities and crafts to engage learners**.**

Play and Purposes Feelings unit focuses on:

  • Using picture books to share real life examples of how we can understand and express our emotions
  • Practicing expressing feelings individually, in pairs, small groups, and as a whole class
  • Learning about feelings, identifying them, and expressing them through playing games, writing, and creative expression

The 10 lessons included in this unit include 5 activity types:

  • Read and React Group Lessons
  • Play in a Small Group 
  • Read and Respond Drawing
  • Let’s Play All Together
  • Craft and Create

The 2 week unit focuses on feeling identification and what feelings look like in those around us. 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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Teacher Appreciation Teachers Rock! Collaborative Coloring Oversized Poster

By Brittany Henderson

Working collaboratively can be engaging and easy. Create together and appreciate teachers and educators with this collaborative coloring activity. This oversized collaborative coloring poster with a positive message is ready for students to work together while while showing their appreciation for teachers! The rock and roll imagery and "Our Teachers Rock!" sentiment is sure to get the message across.

Filled with music, instruments, and a rad musician, this poster will be a fun and unique addition to your school hallways or classroom!

This collaborative poster is ready for: 

  • Teacher Appreciation Week
  • Open House
  • Early Finishers
  • During a Unit of Study
  • Indoor Recess 
  • Practicing Communication and Cooperation Skills.

Includes:

  • 24 coloring pages to make one large poster
  • Size: Approximately 3.5 x 4 ft
  • Letter size coloring sheet with the main image for individual completion.

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IMPULSE CONTROL Mini-Lesson & Workbook - "Let's Pause” Anger Management

By All Therapy Resources

If you’re looking for an easy and effective way to teach kids impulse control, then the Impulse Control Mini-Lesson and Workbook is the perfect learning resource!

With creative illustrations, metaphors, and analogies that help reinforce self-control and impulse control skills, this mental health mini-lesson helps students succeed. No prep is necessary! This social emotional learning resource is full of psychoeducation material, worksheets, activities, and more to drive home the importance of developing these skills in today’s classroom.

If a student struggles to think before they act or has ADHD, this SEL mini-lesson can provide a great foundation for their emotional regulation. The engaging approach makes it easy for kids to master the fundamental executive functioning skill of self control and apply the concept to their own lives inside and outside of the classroom. This mini-lesson is perfect for counselors, SEL lessons, individual activities, or group work.

✎✎✎ Topics Covered:

  • What is Impulse Control?
  • Self Reflection Questionnaire About Impulsivity
  • STOP & THINK Strategy
  • Brain as a Remote Control – exploring our “buttons” and their implications and consequences.
  • Exploring Actions and Consequences
  • Making Better Choices – Emotional Regulation Strategies
  • Think it Out Examples and Template
  • Review Questionnaire

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  • Self Esteem and Feelings Workbook
  • Emotions & Self Care Workbook
  • My Anger Management Workbook

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Upside-Down Candyland Movement Game. Fall/Autumn.

By Art Shack by JB

These creative Upside-Down Candyland Game slides were designed to be printed, displayed, and reimagined while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. Are you in need of a creative and unique Movement Game Activity to get your students excited to learn and stay engaged in your lesson? Do you need an activity that focuses on SEL: Social and Emotional Learning? Do want an activity that promotes UDL: engagement, representation, and expression? I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

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The Colors of Us Resource | Multicultural Education | Beginning of School Year

By Sweet Maple Teaching

This resource focuses on the story "The Colors of Us" by Karen Katz. It includes the tools you need to teach students about skin color and how to love and appreciate the way that they're made. Use these materials to get your students realizing how special their color is.

What's included:

  • This resource was made specifically to use "Colors Around the World" Crayola multicultural crayons (24 pack).
  • 7 printable activities available in full-page activity worksheets
  • Cards for students to write their special color on and keep in their pencil boxes for the year. Students can remember their exact skin color when they/peers want to draw a portrait.
  • Engaging whole group movement activities.
  • ELA focused materials to go along with the story "The Colors of Us."
  • Bulletin board decor to go along with the theme "The Colors of Us."

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An SEL resource that we have in our shop is our "Remarkably You" activities which focus on building students' self-confidence in who they are. Click on the link below to see more.

Remarkably You Resource

We have our ELA resource, Peanut Butter & Cupcake, to teach your students how to strengthen friendships, build new relationships, and learn what it means to be a great friend. Click on the link below to see more.

Build Friendships | Peanut Butter & Cupcake ELA Resource

We also have our "Kindness Boot Camp" resource which focuses on building classroom culture, kindness, and empathy at the beginning of the school year. Click on the link below to see more.

Kindness Boot Camp

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Sounds of America: Exploring the Patriotic Musical Marches of John Philip Sousa

By Agee and Row Classical Music Appreciation

"These were perfect activities to use during my Veteran's Day lesson on Sousa and Patriotic music! Thank you!" - Teaching on a String

Just print & play! Do you need engaging classical music activities or music sub plans? These printable listening sheets offer creative ways for students to learn more about the life and compositions of John Philip Sousa!

What’s Inside:

  • Five Star Rating Guide
  • Composer Fact Sheet: Each composer fact sheet in this series includes fun, basic information – full name, birthplace, birth date, and more. One of the composer’s most popular compositions is also included. The fact sheet contains a place for writing fun facts or notes.
  • Word Composer Activity: In the classic letter puzzle, students can use all the letters from the composer's full name to create new, shorter words. Add a timer for an extra challenge.
  • Birthplace Fact Sheet: Use your favorite geographical resource to find the country’s language(s), leadership, traditional foods, and more! The historical name of some territories may have changed, but the most modern country is used for easy reference.
  • Birthday Coloring Page: A fun coloring page repeats the composer’s birthday, and invites the artist to color in a special cupcake to celebrate the occasion.
  • Composer Study Page: Students compile a short biographical page with the composer's full name, birthplace, instruments, and more!
  • Composer Vocabulary Another six-word vocabulary list that typically includes the composer’s name, birthplace, instrument, or other related terms. Space is provided to trace each term and the included handwriting paper can be used for additional practice.
  • Full Writing Page
  • Writing/Drawing Page
  • Drawing Page
  • Listening Activity Sheets Listening sheets include the title of a popular piece, the composer, a black & white composer to color in, and a space for drawing any scene that may come to mind when listening. There are additional options to identify the mood of a piece and indicate which instruments are playing.
  • Weather Color & Listen Sheet: While listening to the selected piece, students can color in the weather elements they feel and hear.
  • Emotions Color & Listen Sheet: Students color the character(s) that best identify their emotions while listening to the music.
  • Emojis Color & Listen Sheet: Twelve emojis to choose from! Students choose the emoji faces that best match their feelings or impressions about the music.

Printable Listening Sheets (four pages per piece!)

  1. Semper Fidelis
  2. The Stars and Stripes Forever
  3. The Washington Post
  4. The Liberty Bell
  5. La Reine de la Mer Waltz
  6. The Pride of the Wolverines
  7. Belle of Chicago
  8. The Invincible Eagle March
  9. The Thunderer
  10. Hands Across the Sea
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