This lesson introduces four key social skills: making friends, managing emotions, starting conversations, and reading body language. Students apply these skills through role-play scenarios and a hands-on sorting activity.
A comprehensive guide and toolkit for staff to address unkind language during recess, providing consistent response strategies and student reflection tools.
A fun, end-of-year activity centered around a massive summer-themed word search challenge designed to keep students engaged for a full class period.
A reading comprehension lesson for second graders focused on sportsmanship, handling losing, and finding joy in shared play.
In this social-emotional learning lesson, students learn to repair relationships using 'The Apology Sandwich' model: saying sorry, giving a reason, and offering a way to fix it. Students engage in interactive role-play to practice these essential conflict resolution skills.
A specialized social-emotional lesson that reframes kindness and patience as elite 'mental skills' for high-achieving students. It uses a martial arts 'Dojo' theme to teach self-control as the ultimate form of mastery.
A lesson focused on social-emotional learning, specifically teaching students the importance of fair play, the consequences of cheating, and how to handle losing gracefully in board games.
Students apply their "Calm Power" skills through structured role-play scenarios. They practice recognizing triggers, using a chosen technique, and resolving the situation with a calm voice.