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1st and 2nd Grade Social Emotional Learning Activities

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

Make a Mood Meter

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

Things I Like About Me

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

Make a Family Gratitude Jar

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Kindness Counts

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Make Peace Rocks

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

Create an Internal Weather Report

Help your child build emotional awareness by creating a wheel full of pictures that make them feel a certain emotion.

My Emotions Wheel

Do you need to help your students chill out? This activity will help your students learn how to breathe deeply, self-soothe, and calm themselves down.

Make a Calm Down Bottle

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Be Present with Mindful Movement

Tracing is a great technique for clearing your mind and relaxing. Help your child learn how to calm themselves down and clear their minds by tracing their hands.

Five-Finger Relaxation

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

The Weather Inside

Understanding emotions can be a helpful tool for self-regulation. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice identifying different emotions and explore how they connect with various gestures and facial expressions.

Colored Emotions

Deep relaxation is a great way to create the conditions for learning by helping students let go of tension and worry.

Learn Self-Awareness Through Deep Relaxation

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will play a mindful listening game and create a video or skit that teaches others about mindful listening.

Mindful Listening

Back-to-back breathing is a great way to practice self-calming while also creating connection and developing trust.

Back-to-Back Breathing

In this activity, your child will consider the meaning of "culture" and what comprises their family's culture. They will draw pictures of aspects of their family's culture, then choose an aspect of it to explore further.

My Rich Cultural Heritage

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Understanding Others

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will go on a nature scavenger hunt to look for patterns in nature and appreciate how amazing nature is.

Patterns in Nature

In this activity, your child will discover their interests and special talents through performing, writing, and drawing.

Exploration of Talents

Nature is so generous to us all. How often do we reflect and thank nature? In this activity, children will engage with the classic story, The Giving Tree, and actively practice gratitude in nature for trees and all that trees do for us!

Giving and Receiving Kindness

Children will create a "This is Me!" collage that will highlight their many gifts, talents, interests, and leadership skills.

Reflections on Leadership

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Community Mobile

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

Fact or Opinion?

Children will discuss what it means to have healthy friendships and create a unique friendship painting that illustrates the qualities of good friends.

Healthy Friendships

In this activity, your child will write and draw about a time when they acted in ways that illustrated responsibility, kindness, or integrity. They will also reflect on what it felt like to have control over their choices and behaviors.

The Way I Act

In this activity, your child will learn about how focusing on positive feelings, like love and peace, helps these feelings grow. They will also decorate pots and plant seeds as a reminder of this.

Love Can Grow

Ensuring that what we say is truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind takes practice! In this social emotional learning activity, your child will set a goal for themselves to THINK before they speak.

THINK for Kind Talking

In this activity, your child will learn and teach someone else five finger breathing, and they will also draw a picture of their experience.

Five Finger Breathing

In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

Mindfulness and the Brain

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

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