Sel lessons upper elementary

Learn how to use Would You Rather prompts to encourge critical thinking, opinion writing, and collaborative discussions with your students.

Last year, I used the gem that is The Invisible Boy with my second grade classes. This past year, I included it as part of my 4th grade unit with Trudy

Boosting self esteem and confidence in grade 4, 5, and 6 students by writing about positive aspects of their body image.

Last year, for the first time in my career, I needed to do a perspective-taking lesson with one of my "big kid" grades (4th). I had done one in 2nd grade

Help your students become more empathetic and compassionate with these social emotional learning lessons and activity ideas that are perfect for back to school or for building classroom community any time of the year. Pull out a copy of Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson and your students will be ready to discuss creating a more compassionate world!

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…

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

Before and after big school schedule transitions (such as breaks), excitement and anxiety are flowing more than usual through schools. There's also usually

How do you teach kindness to upper elementary students? Read on for all the details on my favorite kindness activity to use with students. Perfect for February, a Valentine's Day activity, or just a supplement to your social emotional learning lessons on kindness and building a strong, inclusive classroom community.

These Do Unto Otters read aloud activities are a great way of teaching the importance of respecting others.