Inside: Help create back to school excitement with this back to school countdown calendar made with a simple paper chain…it’s great for back to school activities. My daughter and I were talking this morning as we snuggled in bed. She asked me her favorite question of the summer… She wanted to know when school started. […]
Fun Learning Activites
Bubble Gum Kindness Sorting Game to Teach SEL
Inside: Use the bubble gum kindness activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. One of the most fun things to do when I was a kid was to search around for a nickel or a quarter to put in the gumball machines at stores and restaurants. We always anticipated what color would […]
Pirate Treasure Kindness Sort Game to Teach SEL
Inside: Use this pirate treasure kindness sort game to teach social emotional learning in a fun, hands-on way. My kids always loved hunting for treasures at the park and in the sandbox at school. They came home with pocketfuls of sequins and shiny rocks and pennies and beads. And part of the fun is the […]
Kindness Cookies Game: Kind or Unkind Sort
Inside: Use this Kindness Cookies Kind or Unkind Sort to help students determine what is kind and what is not during this sel center activity. Cookies make the world go round…around here, we love cookies. We make them for Christmas, as Girl Scouts we sell Thin Mints each year, and we tend to make cookies […]
Friend Wanted Poster for Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Help kids figure out what they value in a friend and what they look for in a friend with these Friend Wanted Posters. Throughout my life, and throughout my kids’ lives, we have been on the search for friends. And not just any kind of friends. Real, good, true friends. And to be honest, […]