Playing Nice Lesson Plan

A comprehensive 3-page teacher facilitation guide for the 4-week safari morning meetings. It features a detailed 15-minute pacing breakdown, explicit verbal scripts for choral responses (date and daily affirmations), active physical cues for daily mood checks, and structured guidelines for a timed turn-and-talk sharing session. Featuring Lead Ranger Ms. Wise.

A complete 4-week, 20-day morning meeting slide deck for an elementary ESY program, safari-themed. It contains cover slides for each week (Savannah, Jungle, Desert, and Ocean safaris) and highly structured daily slides with calendar checks, mood indicators, affirmations, and interactive peer-sharing prompts. Now includes a special Day 1 Explorer Initiation Ceremony slide featuring Lead Ranger Ms. Wise.

A practical step-by-step implementation guide for teachers, featuring classroom station setup instructions, child-friendly dialogue scripts, and a ready-to-use skill assessment checklist.

Hands-on task cards and practice guides for the shoe-tying and bottle-opening stations, featuring step-by-step visual sequences.

A printable set of days, months, and seasons cards that young students can cut out, color, sort, and sequence to build strong calendar awareness.

Playful personal information practice mats where young students can write and practice their parents' names, phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays on clear, structured templates.

A gamified, interactive-style slide deck presentation designed for elementary classrooms, displaying 6 bi-weekly life lesson challenges covering responsibility, organization, self-regulation, and mindfulness.

Student activity board where first-graders physically sort conflict scenarios by size (Pebble, Puddle, Wave) and write out custom peer I-Statements on structured handwriting lines.

Slide presentation for Lesson 2 introducing problem size categorization (Pebble, Puddle, Wave) and structured I-Statements for peer communication.

Hands-on printable activity sheet where first-grade students cut, sort, and paste 'Rock vs. Water' social choices, and practice using a physical finger-tracing breathing track.

Interactive slide deck for Lesson 1 introducing Rock and Water brains, using engaging characters, student-friendly visual layouts, and breathing exercises to manage peer conflicts.

A vibrant, child-friendly 1-page self-regulation anchor chart poster. Perfect for classroom calm-down corners or refrigerators, showing students actionable, visual step-by-step instructions for using the Pause, Rewind, and Volume buttons when experiencing high emotions.

A 1-page printable craft activity for 1st-3rd graders. Contains a remote control body template, three large cut-out buttons (Pause, Rewind, Volume), and clear visual instructions (cut, color, glue) for students to build their own physical 'Mind Remote' tool.

A 1-page student worksheet for 1st-3rd graders. Includes student name/date headers, drawing boxes for emotional triggers ('My Summer Channels'), a matching activity for Pause, Rewind, and Volume buttons, and a personal summer commitment.

An engaging 5-slide visual presentation for 1st-3rd graders. Uses bright colors, large fonts (24px+), and simple illustrations to introduce the Pause, Rewind, and Volume buttons for summer emotional self-regulation.

A comprehensive 2-page teacher's guide for the Mind Remote SEL lesson. Includes lesson objectives, material checklists, full instructional scripts, scenario prompt lists, differentiation strategies, and an explicit summer self-regulation pacing guide.

A printable, identical pre/post test worksheet for K-2 students. Features child-friendly, multi-choice questions with identical styling for options, a custom drawing box for expressing kind actions, and a top checkbox to designate whether the sheet is used as a pre-test or post-test.

A printable set of 4 visual scenario cards for Day 2 and Day 4 small group discussions. Each card depicts a relatable school-based situation with facial and body language cues, guiding students to spot clues and offer help.

Printed activity sheets for the 4-day curriculum. Day 1 focuses on drawing and identifying facial clues (eyes and mouths), while Day 3 focuses on sketching kind actions and checking off physical helper choices.

A structured presentation to guide the daily 20-minute small group empathy lessons for grades K-2. Features big visual cues, face/body decoder graphics, and bold helper phrases that make empathy concrete and accessible.

The comprehensive 4-day teacher guide for the Heart Detectives empathy small group curriculum. Includes step-by-step 20-minute daily lesson plans with timestamps, CASEL SEL alignment, K-2 differentiation tips, pre/post test scoring keys, and a physical emotion clue decoder.

A student-facing printable reflection portfolio booklet designed for upper elementary (3-5) students. Promotes deeper self-reflection with solid writing lines, creative layout panels, self-regulation check-ins, and prompts targeting academic progress, school community, and personal resilience.