Manners Detective Worksheet

A 6-week social-emotional learning and counseling small group curriculum designed specifically for 1st graders to master impulse control, body regulation, blurting prevention, and patience through interactive stories, tactile crafts, and movement games.

Group members celebrate their self-regulation growth, complete an impulse obstacle course, and earn their Official Brain Brakes Champion badge.

Official graduation certificate and superhero shield craft where students document their 6-week impulse control achievements and draw themselves as self-regulation superheroes.

A three-week social-emotional small group sequence designed for first graders to build self-worth, foster empathy, and cultivate an inclusive classroom community. Students explore personal identity, practice inviting peers into play, and celebrate group belonging.

Students distinguish between hyperactive cheetah speed and calm turtle speed, learning sensory breathing reset tools inspired by Breathe Like a Bear.

Facilitator guide for Week 6 graduation session featuring Even Superheroes Have Bad Days read-aloud discussion, the Brain Brakes Obstacle Course, and graduation celebration directions.

A two-week social-emotional learning unit connecting self-control strategies with the Zones of Regulation, guiding elementary students from emotional awareness to active behavioral regulation.

First graders develop patience and coping strategies for waiting without whining through Waiting Is Not Easy! and interactive waiting wheels.

Printable body engine speedometer and sensory finger-tracing breathing labyrinth where students color their energy gears and trace calm-down breath waves.

An 8-month school-based CBT and DBT self-regulation curriculum designed for a first-grade student transitioning from staff co-regulation to independent emotional awareness. The curriculum moves through four 8-week developmental phases integrating body mapping, distress tolerance anti-elopement tools, cognitive reframing role-play, and classroom generalization.

Children tackle blurting out, raising quiet hands, and filtering words using My Mouth Is a Volcano and the lava-cooling craft.

Facilitator session guide for Week 5 on regulating emotional arousal and body engine speeds, featuring Breathe Like a Bear exercises, the Cheetah to Turtle Speedometer game, and Calm Engine craft directions.