YEARLY SYLLABUS_SEL ACTIVITIES_ CIRLE TIME, SOCIAL STORY TIME, ANGER, JOURNALING

As children are encouraged to share more and connect in school, they are being encouraged to look at opportunities to communicate and connect emotionally.

Circle promise and circle time are great ways to encourage listening and relating skills.

Monday morning circle time once a week starts the week off with a tone of connectivity, highlighting the uniqueness of each individual while fortifying the cohesiveness of the classroom community.

SEL ACTIVITIES: Circle Promise and Weekly Circle Topics

SEL ACTIVITY - Circle Promise Board

Children can read or repeat the lines of this poem before circle time to help create a safe space and intention. Print and Laminate.

SEL ACTIVITY Back 2 School - "Circle Topics"

This tool provides 40 thought-provoking circle topics for the classroom.

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When children are unsure of how to react to social situations, social scripting can be quite beneficial. Reading a social script once a week can instill greater knowledge and awareness of socially appropriate behavior that respects the group.

Tuesday social stories can instill inner directives in children for an empathic mindset.

SEL ACTIVITIES: Reading Social Stories

This bundle includes a social story per week for the entire school year.

Social stories are scripts and questions about interpersonal relationships, emotional regulation, communication, and coping skills.

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Wednesday Anger Management can be a space to release tensions and assess changes to be made for the next week. Children can learn to use positive anger as a map to show them what needs to change and be addressed for their ability to thrive and form a better classroom community.

SEL ACTIVITIES: Anger Management Journal, Lessons and Slides.

This bundle includes 4 worksheets of journal space per week for the entire school year (161 pages total). A positive anger solution slide activity and 7 lessons of anger management themes are also included.

SEL ACTIVITIES: Anger Management Journal, Lessons and Slides.

The themes of the Anger Management worksheets are:

Lesson 1 - Defining Anger

Lesson 2 - Self Awareness and Identifying Triggers

Lesson 3 - Just, Unjust, Triggered, and Provoked Anger

Lesson 4 - Positive Anger and Fear-based anger

Lesson 5 - Understanding Negative Anger

Lesson 6 - Health risks of Anger

Lesson 7 - When Anger Becomes an Issue

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Thursday Journaling creates a space of reflection for children on the classroom content, environment, and the way it all lands on them as individuals.

Within this bundle are 4 different types of journals that students can exercise social-emotional learning with once per week for the entire school year.

The four journals include 3-6 reflection pages per week.

They are:

MY CBT Journal - to enhance an understanding of emotion/body awareness, stress management strategies, and gratitude.

When Someone Tells me No - To create awareness around boundaries and behavioral responses to those boundaries.

Peer Relationship Journal - To instill social awareness and reflection of classroom community events.

AfterSchool Reflection Journal - To think critically and reflect on emotions that came up about the content one is learning.

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Friday Body Awareness Games

Are you hoping to increase emotional intelligence in your classroom community? Encourage your students to tap into the intelligence of their bodies and emotions with these fun games. Tap into all 5 social emotional core competencies - self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, social awareness, and relationship skills. All games are performance oriented and so can be used in a social emotional theater setting. Show students how fun mental health can be as they learn to regulate and communicate their emotions with awareness. These ten fun activities come with workbook sheets for reflection, collectible tokens, and a feelings meter.

The exercises included in this packet are:

1. Stillness

2. Dance Freeze

3. Moving with Feels

4. My Voice Holds Emotion

5. Shake, Rattle, and Release

6. Ring of Compliments

7. If I Were Not Human...

8. Saying "No" With My Body

9. Laughing Yoga

10. Humming into the Heavy