Inside: Use these kindness cookie resources to teach social emotional learning and encourage more kindness to others. As a mom to three and a Girl Scout leader, we eat a lot of cookies around here. We decorate cookies at Christmas, we sell Girl Scout cookies in winter and we make Friendship cookies. Because cookies make […]
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Books About Big Emotions that Teach Emotional Regulation
Inside: Use these books about big emotions that teach emotional regulation to help kids manage their emotions and feelings. One of the most empowering skills we can give to our kids emotional intelligence: learning how to recognize their emotions, name their emotions, learn that all emotions are okay, and then learn how to self-soothe and […]
Friendship Recipe for Social Emotional Learning Writing
Inside: Use this Friendship Recipe for Social Emotional Learning Writing to help kids focus on what is a good friend and what they’re looking for in a friend. There are a million ways to be a good friend, but when you’re a kid, you often pick someone who is playing right next to you. But […]
Social Emotional Learning 180 Daily Questions for Classrooms
Inside: Use these Social Emotional Learning 180 Daily Questions to start conversations about kindness, empathy, compassion, and being a good friend. When I taught third grade, we were focused on multiplication, cursive, the solar system, Native American and Indigenous studies, and of course reading and math. But one day, someone passing by our class dropped […]
Kindness Games Resources to Teach Social Emotional Learning Skills
Inside: Use these 19 kindness games resources to teach social emotional learning skills in fun, hands on ways that sneak in learning. When my kids were little they were obsessed with Mary Poppins. And she taught us, “in every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and […]