Elementary mentoring activities

Learn about the importance of SEL and 11 essential ways that teachers can incorporate social-emotional learning activities into the classroom today.

The perfect social-emotional learning activities for the K-3 classroom. Help students develop a growth mindset, friendships, and more.

Teach and practice positive self-talk and positive thinking skills! Students will learn about the power of positive self-talk with a lesson, read affirmations, choose their favorites, and will use them to create their own foldable flower craft. Ultimately, this activity is a lesson and a tool students can use later on for a confidence boost. Digital and Printable! A digital version is included for Google Slides! There are a few different versions to help meet students' individual needs…

Growth mindset activities that you can use to encourage elementary students in the classroom or counseling. Examples include children's books, growth conferences, vision boards, success chains, and more.

Dive into the world of friendship skills with strategies tailored for elementary classrooms (kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grade)! Discover engaging activities and valuable tips to foster social skills and build connections. From morning meetings to redesigning the classroom, you will build kindness with projects, themed friendship weeks, and more. Elevate SEL social-emotional learning and grab the free printable ways to be a friend storybook for your lessons!

Check out these 11 confidence-building activities for kids. Through activities focused on responsibility, self-esteem, responsibility, belonging, and self awareness, students will feel more confident. School counselors and classroom teachers can use these activities. They are perfect for elementary students.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been found to promote academic success and increase students' commitment to school. Generally, there are five key components that make up social emotional learning. These competencies include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and decision making. Today, I'd like to focus on ways to help students develop self-awareness. Self-awareness includes one's ability to recognize emotions, have an accurate self-perception…

A few weeks ago I was preparing professional development for first and second year teachers in my school district. New teachers not only need the basics of classroom management, routines, procedures and relationships....but this year they also need training on how to effectively be a remote educator. The first year of teaching is difficult under normal circumstances, but this is no normal year. I feel for these first year teachers as so much extra is being added to their already overflowing…

Build classroom community with your grade 4 5 6 7 students using this social emotional anti bullying activity that will empower students to identify what hurts their feelings and have students see that words hurt the most. This activity will create a kinder, thoughtful classroom environment.