Inside: Use this Five Senses Emergent Reader to celebrate all the ways we can learn about kindness with our senses. When we are young, we spend a great deal of time focusing on our five senses and learning all about them because this is how we gather information about our world. When we pay attention […]
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Four Seasons Kindness Social Emotional Learning Bundle
Inside: Teach all about the four seasons at the same time you teach social emotional skills with this Four Seasons Kindness SEL Bundle. When I was a Kindergarten teacher, much of the curriculum included teaching by the seasons. We taught them about cycles and weather and holidays and appropriate clothing to wear all year long. […]
ABCs of Kindness Emergent Reader
Inside: Use this ABCs of Kindness Emergent Reader to connect the alphabet and kindness together, focusing on 26 ways to be kind, from A-Z. When I taught Kindergarten, our focus was first and foremost, mastery of the alphabet and it’s sounds. So we used everything at our disposal: songs, games, poems, gross motor activities, centers, […]
Social Emotional Learning Centers Games: Kind or Unkind Sorts
Inside: Use these kind or unkind sorts as social emotional learning centers games perfect to help kids understand what is kind and what is not. When I taught elementary school, every day was all about the centers. It was my students’ favorite part of their day when they could independently work on games or activities. […]
Christmas Elf Writing for Social Emotional Learning
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 […]