Growing Good Choices

A comprehensive social-emotional learning daily warm-up sequence for PK-5 classrooms, aligned with the CASEL competency framework. It includes daily 5-minute warm-up slides for September, October, and November to build self-awareness, growth mindset, and self-management skills.

An interactive lesson using friendly monster characters to help 1st-3rd grade students identify physical body clues for emotions, explore feelings like frustration, and learn actionable calm-down strategies. Includes a slide presentation and a hands-on drawing worksheet.

A 1-page printable teacher guide and lesson plan outlining classroom facilitation scripts, pacing instructions, and discussion prompts to accompany the Monster Moods lesson.

A structured 4-session counselor small group curriculum designed for early elementary students (Grades K-2) to explore anxiety, identify physical symptoms, and build a personalized toolbox of sensory and cognitive coping strategies.

November daily 5-minute warm-up slides focused on self-management and self-regulation, covering calm down tools, managing big emotions, focus and attention, and gratitude practice.

A 1-page printable drawing and writing worksheet for 1st-3rd graders to design their own emotion monster, identify its feelings, list body clues, and describe a calm-down strategy.

A three-day social-emotional learning sequence focused on collaborative teamwork. Students learn to share resources fairly, integrate and value diverse ideas, and resolve peer conflicts constructively using 'Co-Op Mode' strategies.

October daily 5-minute warm-up slides focused on growth mindset and self-awareness, covering the power of "yet", mistakes as opportunities, asking for help, and identifying personal values.

A simplified, highly visual 16:9 presentation introducing lower elementary students to emotion monsters, physical body clues, and calm-down exercises using large, child-friendly monster characters and minimal text.

A 21-slide interactive morning presentation for November, covering Week 1 (Calm Down Tools), Week 2 (Managing Big Emotions), Week 3 (Focus & Attention), and Week 4 (Gratitude Practice) with daily 5-minute warm-ups.