Inside: Use this Christmas Elf Writing for Kindness to connect Christmas with social emotional learning and writing skills. When it’s the most wonderful time of the year, we can lean into the excitement of the Christmas and winter break spirit with our kids and students by connecting anything we need them to learn to the […]
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Christmas Light Writing Activity for Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Use this Christmas Light Writing Activity: You Light Up this Room to connect Christmas, writing and social emotional learning. In a classroom of 20-35 students, it’s easy for students to feel lost or feel like they aren’t valued as a member of the class. But if we want our kids to feel heard, seen, […]
Classroom Holiday Party Activities: 16 Best Winter-Themed Ideas
Inside: Host a classroom holiday party in your kids’ classrooms or scout groups with low-prep, low-mess, low-cost games, activities, and crafts that are winter-themed. Most room parents are busy planning or scrambling to plan, the very best, most awesome holiday party for their kids’ classrooms. And I was tasked with the same job, but for […]
Halloween Kindness Activities for Kids
Inside: Use these Halloween kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during October. Halloween is, of course, a kid favorite holiday. It could be the costumes and dressing up to be anything you want. It could be the Halloween parties, carnivals, and costume parades. Or, it could be the obscene amounts of […]
Year Long Kindness Craft and Write Bundle to Teach SEL
Inside: Use this year long Kindness Craft and Write Bundle to tie in reading, writing, holidays and social emotional skills each month. Elementary schools revolve around the seasons. Yes, we teach reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic, but we infuse the holidays and seasons into almost everything we teach. Since our students are excited about the pumpkins […]