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Free middle school school counseling resources
Positive Thinking Affirmations - 150 Self-Talk Phrases SEL Skills Activity
Use these 100+ free positive thinking affirmations and self-talk statements to help kids and young adults build confidence, learn healthy coping strategies, and start the day off strong. Positive thinking and self-talk is an important social-emotional learning skill necessary for success. This resource includes a 3-page printable list of positive affirmations and a student worksheet to record individual positive affirmations. Digital and Print VersionsI've included a link to Google Drive! To acc
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1st - 12th
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Emotions and Feelings Check-In Worksheets for Social Emotional Learning
Use these free printable worksheets for daily emotions check-ins with your students. A daily feelings check-in is an important way to integrate social-emotional learning into the day, while helping students build self-awareness and self-management skills.Three versions are included with emojis, an emotions word bank, and clear space to add your own emotions words. Both color and black/white versions are also included.The prompts include:Right now, I'm feeling...I feel this way because...Somethin
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1st - 8th
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Free Social Emotional Learning Check-In Journal | SEL Activities
This FREE Social Emotional Learning Daily Check-In Journal Sample Pack is designed to not only teach your students SEL skills, but also helps you to check in on your students' social and emotional wellness. Great for morning meetings, journal writing, and school counseling interventions. This resource includes 2 weeks of daily SEL check-ins and skills practice, sampled from WholeHearted's Social Emotional Learning Daily Check-In Journal Bundle. -Use virtually or in person-Comes in both Google S
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3rd - 6th
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Free Coloring Pages for Teens & Adults, Mandala + Mindfulness Coloring Sheets
This collection of 16 coloring pages can be used in a variety of ways:• Give to early finishers during testing/quiet tasks to allow time for other students to finish their work.• Keep students’ hands busy while listening to audiobooks or podcast-based lessons. • Create a stress reduction bulletin board where students can help themselves to their choice of coloring sheets.• Help teens learn to calm themselves during stressful moments by focusing on a mindfulness task. • Use in counseling offices
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Perspective-Taking Social Skills Lessons - Printable and Digital Activities
Use these lessons to teach critical social skills of perspective-taking to kids, including understanding perspectives, developing their own perspectives, and recognizing there can be more than one point of view in a situation. This resource includes two complete activities with an educator guide and lesson plan. These are a small sample of a paid resource and bundle that are listed below.Digital VersionA digital version has now been included for Google Classroom!Why Teach Social SkillsSocial ski
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5th - 8th
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Executive Functioning Skills Workbook - Free Worksheets & Activities
Teach specific executive functioning skills with this free workbook sampler. Skills targeted include: planning, organization, time management, task initiation, working memory, metacognition, self-control, attention, flexibility, and perseverance. The free resource includes a sample of my Executive Functioning Advanced Workbook with an executive functioning quiz, information on executive functioning, daily checklists, estimating time for tasks, and behaviors aligned with paying attention. These a
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7th - 10th
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Free Would You Rather Digital Spinner | Morning Meeting Activity Freebie
Your students will love this FREE Would You Rather Digital Spinner. You can use this spinner for both distance learning and in-person classroom morning meetings, community building, classroom guidance lessons, lunch bunches, small groups, and individual counseling. Fun ice breakers, writing prompts, and time filler!Digital Spinners are available in the following formats: WholeHearted Hosted (NEW!), Google Slides™ and PowerPoint™.If you enjoy this SEL resource, click here to find 24 more!
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K - 7th
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Executive Functioning Escape Room Activity
This free escape room activity is a puzzle challenge related to executive functioning skills. Students can work together or independently to solve a puzzle and discover the secret phrase to unlock the door and win the challenge in a specified amount of time. This escape room activity is ideal for small groups, advisory periods, morning work, resource rooms, or just for fun!Note that this is a free sample puzzle that includes only one challenge. If you are interested in more similar challenges pu
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4th - 8th
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Mindful Morning Check-In - Free SEL Activity for Mindfulness
Use this free poster and activity to encourage a more mindful day for kids and teens (and adults, too!). The poster includes both digital and printable pages to allow students to write in their responses if they choose.Students will:Slowly take five deep breaths.List four things they can see or notice.List three things they are grateful for.Say two positive self-talk statements.Name one thing they are looking forward to.Spanish VersionUpdated to include Spanish version as well!Why Teach Mindfuln
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K - 8th
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Mindfulness Coloring Pages
The purpose of mindful coloring is to have students pay attention to applying color and design to help bring awareness to the present moment without allowing other thoughts, worries, or fears penetrate the mind. Mindful coloring focuses the mind on a simple, relaxing activity which helps inspire creativity while reducing stress.Taking the time to incorporate mindfulness activities such as this, in your counseling program, can help create a calm and inviting environment for your students. These
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Social Emotional Learning Journal Free Week of Prompts (Self-Awareness Skills)
Use this free Social Emotional Learning Journal to teach SEL skills! This free resource includes 5 journal prompts focused on self-awareness and helping kids understand their individual strengths and challenges. Note that this is a small sample of my Social Emotional Learning Journal for the Full Year.Digital VersionI've updated this to include a digital version for Google Drive. Students can type their responses for each journal prompt online!Why Teach Social Emotional Learning SkillsSocial emo
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4th - 6th
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Kindness Mazes - Kindness Activities - Free Kindness Week Activity
Kindness Mazes are great kindness activities that help inspire and promote kindness and a positive classroom and school community. Great for early finishers, or morning activity and addition to other kindness lessons and activities or kindness week challenges. Includes:9 Mazes3 Mazes with Inspirational Kindness Sayings3 Mazes with Kindness Challenges3 Mazes with Kindness Questions for Reflection You might also be interested in:Kindness Confetti CardsKindness Confetti QuotesPositive Affirmation M
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3rd - 6th
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Social Skills Lessons for Conversations Free Lessons
Use these lessons to teach critical social skills of conversations to kids, including how to start a conversation, using conversation-starters, finding things in common with others, and keeping a conversation going. This resource includes four complete activities with an educator guide and lesson plan. These are a small sample of a paid resource and bundle that are listed below.Why Teach Social SkillsSocial skills are the abilities and competencies we use to navigate the social world. These skil
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5th - 10th
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Social Emotional Learning: 10 Free Worksheets
Looking for easy to use materials that will help your students learn about and practice important social emotional learning topics? These 10 no prep worksheets are perfect to keep on hand for last minute lessons or when working with individual students. There are 2 worksheets for each of the 5 CASEL competencies: Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision Making. *********************************************************************************
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4th - 6th
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Free Social Emotional Learning Digital Spinner and Dice | Back to School Fun!
Your students will love this FREE Getting to Know You Social Emotional Learning Digital Spinner. You can use this spinner for both distance learning and in-person classroom morning meetings, community building, classroom guidance lessons, lunch bunches, small groups, and individual counseling. Comes in WholeHearted Hosted, Google Slides™, PowerPoint™, and printable versions. If you enjoy this SEL resource, click here to find 23 more!
Grades:
1st - 9th
Self regulation Emotions Feelings: No Prep Activities - I spy FREEBIE
This activity is designed to assist students learning emotion recognition skills, emotion regulation, feels, behavior management etc.
This product contains:
1 x counting I spy (i.e., how many happy faces can you find?)
1 x coloring I spy (i.e., color all the happy faces red)
Being an 'I Spy' product, students are also working on visual perceptual skills. This refers to the brains ability to make sense of what the eyes see. Visual perception is needed in the classroom for copying from the boar
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: EMOTION NO PREP BUNDLE
Free Empathy Worksheets Social Emotional Learning Vocabulary Activities Rubric
You will download a free sampler empathy worksheet for students to define and understand this word. A grading rubric is also included. ➔➔ Click HERE the full empathy packet of activities.You will download both print and digital EASEL PDF formats for your convenience.★★ Click HERE to go back to my homepage and browse the categories on the left.▶︎ DIGITAL COMPATIBLE RESOURCE:Through the EASEL by TPT platform, you will be able to annotate and customize the PDF using overlays. Underlying content is
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Gratitude Activities - Free Thankfulness List from A-Z
Help kids and young adults practice gratitude by learning what we are thankful for. Gratitude promotes happiness, positive thinking, and creates a positive classroom climate. Practicing thankfulness and gratitude is an activity for any time of year, but especially helpful during Thanksgiving time!Why Teach GratitudeResearch has shown many positive outcomes when you increase your gratitude. With time and practice, gratitude can potentially help strengthen relationships with others, help us to fee
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3rd - 8th
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50 Things You Can Control Free Poster and Checklist
Why Teach About Choices Each Person Has Control Over?Recognizing what is in our control helps young (and older!) people cultivate a strong internal locus of control and sense of self-efficacy, which are important building blocks for self-esteem, compassion towards self and others, having a growth mindset, and creating plans to work towards goals, hopes, and dreams. Plus, when we can identify what really is in our control, we can focus our energy that to create change, as compared to wasting on t
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3rd - 12th
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Oh, the Places You'll Go Activities
This contains 17 colorful pages to use along with the Dr. Seuss book, "Oh, the Places You'll Go". It contains 10 pages of free style educational activities to use with students of all ages. Teachers as well as school counselors can creatively use this activity booklet to meet their educational needs.
This activity is FREE and includes the following:
Written text for “Oh, the Places You’ll Go”
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go”10 Years In the Future Activity
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go”10 Years In t
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PreK - 12th
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Bucket Filler or Bucket Dipper Activity
This activity goes with the book, How Full Is Your Bucket, by Tom Rath.
Bucket Filler or Bucket Dipper Game:
Cut Label and glue on bucket (or bag). Cut out 30 cards double sided and place in bucket (or bag). Divide the class into two teams. Each student comes up and pulls out a card. If the card is positive (bucket filler) their team gets a point. If the card is negative (bucket dipper) their team doesn’t get a point. The team with the most points wins the game.
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1st - 6th
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Free Feelings Posters | Social Emotional Learning Activity Freebie
This FREE Feelings Posters and Handbook Sample pack features 4 free posters and worksheets that cover the emotions happy, sad, worried, and angry. Each poster contains the feeling definition. And the worksheet provides feeling sensation, body language cues, and examples. Comes in digital and printable formats. If you like this sample pack, and would like access to a total of 50 different feelings, check out my Multicultural Feelings Posters, Emotion Chart & SEL Activity: Body Language Cu
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PreK - 7th
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I SPY COPING SKILLS! Free Poster / Printable
FREE Printable! An I-Spy printout with various coping strategies. Educators and parents can use this activity as a fun and easy way to engage with their kiddos around the topic of coping strategies.A fun worksheet for students. Plus, ca help students to focus, so the act of searching for different coping skills can act as a self-regulation tool, too.
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K - 8th
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Social Emotional Learning Choice Boards - Free SEL Activities
Use these free social emotional learning choice boards to encourage kids to practice a variety of SEL skills. Activities include journaling, responding to prompts, discussing topics with others, drawing, and more. This is the perfect way to integrate social emotional learning in a fun way!Note that these are a sample of the full yearlong set of SEL choice boards. This free sample is perfect to cover at least four weeks of social emotional instruction and send home with parents and families. It i
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4th - 6th
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