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Free character education resources
Monster Fun! Teaching Manners and Expectations
Here is a fun little packet for you to help teach manners and expectations in school the first few days of school! I hope you enjoy it!
Kathleen Pedersen
Growing Kinders
http://growingkinders.blogspot.com
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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All About Me Pennant Banner Back to School Activities Getting to Know You
This is fun back to school activity I made for my students to complete on the first day of school. Digital (Google Slides) Version Included!āAlso included: Australian/UK Version This download includes 2 versions - color or black & whiteBoth are available in print or digital formatsStudents fill in:namebirthdayage Their favorites:foodcoloranimalsubject, and what they want to be when they grow up.Students can also draw or paste a self-portrait. In the digital version, students are instructed t
Grades:
1st - 6th
Kindness Matters Word Search : Early Finishers : Morning Work : Substitute
Any day is a great day to review positive words that connect to being kind. Word searches can be a fun way to get your students talking about vocabulary related to spreading kindness. Your students will enjoy this fun word search! In this word search puzzle, words are found forward, backward, up, down, and diagonally. I would consider it on the challenging side since students are looking for words in all directions, and the content may be more suitable for upper elementary. I use word searches
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Character Traits Graphic Organizer Worksheet
This Character Traits Graphic Organizer will help students identify character traits while supporting them with text evidence. Directions:After having your students read a book or passage, then fill out one of these worksheets. ~Write the title and name of character~Decorate the character to look like the character they chose~Write two traits that describe the character chosen~Use text evidence to support the character trait chosenIf you like this Character Trait Graphic Organizer resource, you
Grades:
1st - 6th
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Friendship Task Cards Social Skills Prompts for Social Emotional Learning
Use these friendship task cards individually as writing prompts or in groups for discussion to teach children friendship strategies! Some kids make friends naturally, but making and keeping friends is not easy for others. Studies have shown that having even one friend significantly improves a child's emotional health and school performance. Some children may struggle to make and keep friends because they do not intuitively know how to be a good friend. WHATāS INCLUDED:āļø PRINT:24 Task Cards (pri
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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End of the Year Activity - Class Compliments
The end of the year is a great time to reinforce the classroom community you've worked so hard to build. Use these resources to have students create meaningful and character-building gifts for one another that they will cherish for years.
Included:
-Teacher instructions
-How to give a good compliment anchor chart
-Character traits anchor chart
-Compliment cards
-Envelope covers
Discuss with your class how to give a good compliment. Use the anchor chart provided to guide your discussion. Use th
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Not Grade Specific
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Morning Meeting Greetings & Activities
This is a collection of Morning Meeting greeting and activity cards. The Morning Meeting can be used in any classroom to build community and communication skills. Looking for other time-saving Morning Meeting resources?Kinder Morning Meeting BundleFirst Grade Morning Meeting BundleSecond Grade Morning Meeting BundleFor ideas and resources to help you weave character education into your classrooms, click HERE!If you enjoy this product, please leave some feedback below! To stay up to date on new p
Grades:
PreK - 5th
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Also included in:Ā Morning Meeting for First Grade | YEAR-LONG BUNDLE | Google Slides
FREE Growth Mindset Quote Posters & Coloring Pages - SEL Character Education
This FREE Growth Mindset sample includes 5 different growth mindset mantras. You will receive a poster and coloring sheet for each of the 5 included. Use these posters to teach children about their elastic brain, a fixed and growth mindset, perseverance, learning from mistakes, failures, challenges, and the power of YET. The Growth Mindset curriculum includes a FULL set of mantra posters + a variety of thought-provoking lessons, discussions, community building ideas, and tons of engaging activit
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Curriculum Map for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
UPDATED WITH 2023-2024 Curriculum Maps! Planning for the year can be overwhelming. This year-long clickable curriculum map broken down by week will help you plan your year using themes.Planned for each theme are: ā¢ math and literacy centersā¢ dramatic play setsā¢ character (aka social skills) topic & lessonsā¢ science ā¢ STEM challengesā¢ a sensory table ideaā¢ a booklist What's included:2023-2024 EDITABLE Curriculum Pacing Map (you must open and edit it in PowerPoint)!2023-2024 Curriculum Pacing
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in:Ā Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Complete Curriculum BUNDLE
FREE Reward Coupons for Positive Classroom Management
Celebrate and recognize great student behavior with these handy reward coupons! Students choose from nine special privileges such as bringing a stuffed animal to school or wearing a hat for the day. An inexpensive alternative to the treasure box! Who is This For? Teachers looking for free classroom rewards that actually motivate students!What is Included? Nine fun classroom privileges made into handy reward tickets. The cards work with any positive classroom management system including PBIS
Grades:
K - 6th
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Feelings Emotions Play Dough Mats (SEL) for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Feelings and Emotions play dough mats are a fun activity to teach and build your student's emotional vocabulary and social skills. What's included:Feelings and Emotions Emoji Play Dough MatsPencil Feeling Mat (use dough or manipulatives to make the feeling faces)Love these feeling and emotions activities? Grab the Feelings and Emotions Units or the Social Skills (SEL) Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten! Buy the bundle and save over 20%!Check out more Character Education & Social
Grades:
PreK - 1st
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Also included in:Ā Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
Social Emotional Learning: Self Control Lesson and Printables
Are you curious about my Character Education curriculum, but want to try a sample out first? Do your students need a refresher on using self-control to handle big emotions? I created this pack for you!
This is the first lesson from my Self-Control, and includes a lesson plan, anchor chart, printables, and a poem to use for shared reading! :)
If you're interested in other Character Education lessons, be sure to check out the other units below!
Kindness
Fairness
Respect
Self-Control
Confli
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Empathy Worksheets - Free!
These print and go empathy worksheets are perfect for helping students understand what empathy is and how they can respond empathetically to the feelings of others! These are great to use in your friendship or social skills lessons!Looking for more character education worksheets? Click here to check out my set of 50 worksheets that cover 25 character traits!****************************************************************************************************************************Ideas For Use:Em
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Social Stories For Behaviors: Hands, Feet, & Body to Self
This download includes 1 social story with a girl cover and boy cover, about keeping hands, feet, and body to self. Use as an in-class reminder, a take-home activity, or reminder after misbehavior! Story includes original hand-drawn clipart. I hope this product is as helpful for you and your students as much as it has been for mine!TermsCopyright Ā© Kylie The Creative Social Worker. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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FREE KINDNESS COLORING PAGES Superpower Affirmations Character Building Activity
FREE kindness coloring pages to help improve behavior and emotional wellbeing. Students color kindness quotes to help embed the positive character traits that build friendships and social skills for an inclusive classroom community. These 3 coloring sheets are samples from these coloring page packs:Kindness Coloring PagesKind People Coloring Pages Kind People Worksheets with a writing activity. The positive messages and images on each of them can inspire wonderful conversations about kindness, f
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Growth Mindset Motivational Posters
Inspire a growth mindset within your students with the help of these 36 posters, each featuring a motivational quote from an esteemed public figure. PERFECT for any classroom and any grade!
Looking for more ways to celebrate your students' growth throughout the year? Acknowledge the brilliance within your students with these Famous Figures + Growth Mindset Awards!
Another fun resource connected to inspirational people from history + current events: Bobblehead Biography Project
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Staff
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#KindnessRules: Kindness Sort
Teaching our students to be a good friend and be kind to one another is often something that gets lost in the fast paced world of education. We often tell our students to "be a good friend" or "be kind", but how often do we TEACH them how to do this? A group of 9 TpT sellers have collaborated to bring you 9 engaging and fun resources to help teach your students HOW to be kind to one another.
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Kindness is such an abstract
Grades:
K - 2nd
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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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Ā Kindness ConfettiĀ® Activity - Kindness Quotes - Kindness Questions- BUNDLE
Being a Good Friend - social story
Need a social story about being a good friend at school? Download this freebie!
For students with Autism or those who need help learning how to be a good friend at school, this social story can help.
Being a good friend means: using nice words and voice, sharing toys, asking to play, and learning that friends will play with other friends.
Enjoy! All Things Special Ed.
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Not Grade Specific
The Hare and the Tortoise Readers' Theater Script
Another one of Aesop's great fables!!! Students will love being Hare or Tortoise and acting out the race to the finish line. This readers' theater script goes well with a reading unit on Aesop's fables, a character education lesson, in a literacy center with props and costumes, or just for reading fluency practice. Text is aimed at early elementary. Script has 6 different speakers.
See other great Readers Theater scripts, lesson plans and graphic organizers in my TpT store. This script is inc
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Find Someone Who Ice Breaker FREE Back to School Activity - Get to Know You
This free get-to-know-you game is fun for your students during the first days back to school. This is an ice breaker activity that will help kids learn more about their friends and get them talking. Each student will get a Find Someone Who sheet, then walk around asking their classmates questions from the sheet. Once they find a classmate that matches that quality, they will ask their classmate to write their name in the box. Two different 'Find Someone Who' get-to-know-you games.characteristics
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Gratitude Jar Thankful Writing Activity | Social Emotional Learning
Students fill their Gratitude Jar by writing down things they are thankful for. This would be great as part of a mental health or social emotional learning lesson, or could also be used as an activity around Thanksgiving. Included in this resource: Blank Gratitude Jar, ready for students to "fill up"Brainstorming sheet A-Z: students think of ideas for each letter of the alphabetBlank brainstorming sheet: blank lines for students to write ideas onGratitude is such an important life lesson. Thank
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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FREE Kindness Day Activities
Are you celebrating Kindness Day? Here are some easy to low prep activities for Kindness Day!THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:Kindness Day posters to read to your studentsKindness CalendarSort the Bucket FillersI Can Be a Bucket Filler! (2 different options included, drawing/writing)Kindness Rainbow writing activityKindness Cloud craft (pre-written words to cut out included): Students choose a friend to gift this craft to and write adjectives to describe that friend!Sight Word worksheets related to Kindne
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Kindness Bingo #kindnessnation
This Kindness BINGO card set include 30 BINGO cards with 24 kind acts for students to complete on Random Acts of Kindness Day (or any day!) to create a more positive, supportive school community!
Please note: There is no master list of kind acts. This is not intended to be a "sitting" game. Students actually complete the kind acts on their own throughout the class and school community to build kind, compassionate citizens! I like to have younger students complete 5 kind acts in a row and retur
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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