Inside: Use this SEL Writing Activity: You Light Up this Room to connect writing and social emotional learning with how to give compliments. 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 […]
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Middle School Classroom Decor Gen Alpha Slang Kindness Posters
Inside: Need middle school classroom decor for your school? You’ll love these kindness posters for teenagers who speak Gen Alpha slang. Speak their language to start to connect with them. My teenage daughter just “bro’d” me again. Then she told me dinner was lowkey sus and basic, and I was delulu for thinking she would […]
Shark Week Activities : Kind or Unkind Sort for Kids
Inside: Use these Shark Week activities to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way each July. I can’t lie…living near the Pacific Ocean, I was never a fan of sharks. I wanted to see dolphin fins when I was swimming, not shark fins. Sharks have always gotten a bad rap- from Jaws to rare […]
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 […]