Today I Feel Journal Page

Read the feeling words together first and act a few of them out. Ask students to point to the words in a sentence that tell them how a character feels. The thermometer and journal pages work well as a weekly check-in at home or in class.

Six feelings pages for 1st and 2nd grade. Students match feeling words to faces, read short sentences and circle how each person feels, fill in big feeling words like frustrated and proud, and match each cause to the feeling it brings. They also color a feelings thermometer to show how big a feeling is and write and draw about their day on a today I feel journal page. Four pages have an answer key.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade social-emotional learning, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with feelings and emotions. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A thermometer drawing that shows how big a feeling is, from calm at the bottom to very upset at the top. Coloring it helps children notice a feeling growing before it boils over.

A child who can only say mad has one word for many different feelings. Words like frustrated, nervous and proud help them explain what is really going on, and help you respond to it.

At 6 to 8, children are ready for bigger feeling words like frustrated, nervous and proud, and for noticing what caused a feeling. They practice solving friendship problems, giving compliments, seeing a situation from someone else's point of view, telling a small problem from a big one, and choosing a calm down strategy that works for them. These worksheets add short reading and writing to each skill.

A growth mindset is the belief that you can get better at something with practice and effort. A child with a fixed mindset says I can't do it, while a child with a growth mindset says I can't do it yet. The growth mindset pages have children sort fixed and growth mindset sentences, add the word yet, and read a short story about a girl who learns from a mistake.

Size of the problem is a way to help children match their reaction to what happened. A small problem, like losing a pencil, needs a small reaction and can be fixed alone. A big problem, like someone getting hurt, needs a grown-up right away. Sorting problems into small, medium and big on paper makes it easier to remember in the moment.

No. Social-emotional learning is taught alongside the core subjects, and these pages are not tagged to a Common Core or C3 Framework standard. Many schools follow their own SEL program, and these worksheets fit next to any of them as practice and discussion starters.