Slithering Feelings

A small-group counseling sequence for first-grade students to manage anxiety, transition worries, and physical stress. Focuses on deep breathing, cognitive reframing, muscle relaxation, and separating controllable from uncontrollable worries to build lifelong resilience.

Helps students distinguish between worries they can control and those they cannot control, using a playful bubble-blowing metaphor to let go of uncontrollable thoughts.

A teacher facilitation guide for the 10-minute Slithering Feelings wellbeing session, featuring quick discussion prompts, movement-based emotional check-ins, and steps to move beyond color matching.

A foundational social-emotional learning sequence adapted specifically for Pre-K students with emerging academics, targeting relationship skills, classroom belonging, self-management, and personal responsibility.

Teaches students to identify where they feel worry physically in their bodies ('body weather') and practice progressive muscle relaxation ('Squeeze and Release') to calm physical stress.

A printable worksheet containing 12 cut-out emotion matching cards (6 visual snake body language cards and 6 feeling word cards) to help Year 1 students identify and match feelings.

A small-group counseling sequence for first-grade students to manage anxiety about having a substitute teacher. Focuses on deep breathing, positive self-talk, and role-playing unexpected changes to build confidence and coping skills.

Consolidates coping skills as students role-play substitute scenarios, create a personalized coping plan, and celebrate their readiness to face classroom changes.

A vibrant, colorful printable poster displaying a snake-themed emotion scale from calm green to angry red. Includes simple prompts for Year 1 students to point, identify, and express how they feel.

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.

A playful, hands-on coloring and sorting worksheet that helps first-graders categorize school worries into things they can control (keep in their pocket) and things they cannot control (blow away).