Inside: Use this printable gratitude pumpkin to help kids focus on why they’re grateful throughout the month of November. I love traditions and I absolutely love holidays. I have boxes and boxes of decorations in my basement. But I have never loved Thanksgiving. I love the food and I love spending time with the family, […]
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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, […]
Thanksgiving Kindness Activities for Kids to Focus on SEL
Inside: Use these Thanksgiving kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during November. November is a great time to focus on turkeys and the complicated relationships between the Pilgrims and the Indigenous tribes who helped them. As teachers, we also focus on leaves and pumpkins, and autumn before we turn our attention […]
Halloween Kindness Paper Chain Countdown to Halloween
Inside: Countdown to Halloween and focus on kindness at the same time by using this Kindness Countdown to Halloween Paper Chain. October to December for any school year is especially crazy as we all try to teach all the things and celebrate all the holidays. Halloween to Winter Break can often feel like a blur […]
Kindness Turkeys: Kind or Unkind Sort for SEL Curriculum
Inside: Use the kindness turkeys activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way this fall. On November 1st, the crumply, moldy jack o’lanterns get sent to the trashcans and we bring out the turkeys and Pilgrims. We have to put away the witches and the bats, but we can still keep the holiday […]