SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Creating a positive elementary social emotional classroom is a layered approach.
It’s not a one size fit all concept. In fact, what is required, is a combination of strategies and learning activities that work together to promote a supportive learning environment.
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Here are some effective ways to create a positive classroom behavior management:
- Build positive relationships: Teachers can build positive relationships with their students by creating a welcoming atmosphere in the classroom. Greet students individually and make time to get to know them
- Use positive reinforcement and provide genuine feedback to empower your students.
- Incorporate cooperative learning activities and small group activities to help students interact socially and learn from peers
- Explicitly teach social and emotional strategies: Teachers can teach social and emotional skills such as empathy, self-awareness, and self-regulation. This can be done through role-playing, discussions, and other activities that help students recognize and manage their emotions.
- Promote a Growth Mindset: Encourage students to embrace challenges and think of mistakes as positive learning opportunities. This helps to build resilience and self-confidence, which are essential to social and emotional development.
- Create a safe and supportive learning environment: Teachers can create a safe and supportive environment by establishing a calm down classroom corner or spot for students to take a brain break from cognitive overload or self regulate
- Use positive reinforcement: Use positive classroom coupons or reward to genuinely reward personal best effort and good behavior.
If you’d like to purchase a bundle that consists of all of the above strategies and learning activities, click on the image below:
This Social Emotional Learning Bundle includes Math PowerPoint with embedded brain breaks! It includes:
1. Math Fact Fluency Addition and Subtraction Google Slides (use as a whole class PowerPoint presentation (after solving 5 math slides, students get moving with these fun kinesthetic brain breaks):
- Wobble Like Jelly
- 10 Bunny Hops
- Shake to the left, shake to the right, shake to the back, shake to the front
- 7 Star Jumps
- Creep Like Tiger
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes…5 times!
- 7 Knee Hight
- Flutter Like A Butterfly
- Twirl Like A Ballerina
- Rock Around The Clock…clockwise!
- Slither Like A Snake
- Glide Like An Eagle
- 10 Crocodile Snaps
- Move-Like-A-Robot
This core-aligned resource that covers the following mathematical concepts:
- Count On
- Count Back
- How Many?
- Ten Frames
- Doubles
- Before, After, Between
- Skip Counting Number Patterns
- Odd or Even?
- Read Number Words
- Smallest Number
- Largest Number
- One Less
- One More
- Count by Tens
- Read & Solve (simple one sentence word problems)
2. This Calm Down Kit with Mindfulness Strategies:
- ‘Teacher Booklet’ cover page (for binder)
- Mindfulness Lesson 1: Gentle Ocean Sounds
- Mindfulness Lesson 2: Peace Out
- Mindfulness Lesson 3: Being Present
- 10 whole class Mindfulness activities
- ‘My Mindfulness Journal’ cover page for each student
- Student journals include 20 calming prompts that enable them to express their feelings through drawing or writing reflections
- 28 visual ‘Calming Strategy Cards’ to place in a box for individual students to select when they feel stressed or anxious
- One set of 4 blank cards for students to fill in
- Reflection Sheet 1
- Reflection Sheet 2
- Reflection Sheet 3
- Reflection Sheet 4
- 15 Bulletin Board Posters
3. Reward Coupons for Positive Classroom Management:
- 63 colored cards
- 63 B/W cards (Goal Setting Activity: students personalize and color in)
- 20 page reflective ‘My Yay Diary’ (includes a personalized front cover page)
- 30 original so you have enough for a whole class without any repetition
- Habits of Mind and Growth Mindset comments included
- Comments can be used for all subjects
- Just copy or cut and paste!
5. All About Me (A4 printable puzzle sets):
- All About Me Puzzle (9 pieces)
- About Me Puzzle (2 pieces)
- About My Family (2 pieces)
- About My Friends (2 pieces)
- About My Pets (2 pieces)
- About My Teacher (2 pieces)
- My School (2 pieces)
- How I Get To School (2 pieces)
- My Favorite Movie (2 pieces)
- My Favorite Book (2 pieces)
- My Favorite Ice-cream (2 pieces)
- My Hobby (2 pieces)
Read this blog about the 12 ways you build a positive classroom!
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