Make It Kind, Rewrite the Sentence

Read the stories together and pause to ask how each child feels. On the rewrite page, let students say their kind version aloud before writing it. Send the seven-day plan home on a Monday and check in at the end of the week.

Six kindness pages for 1st and 2nd grade. Students read short stories and circle the kind choice, cut out 8 cards and sort kind and unkind choices, and rewrite unkind sentences kindly. In the walk in their shoes stories, they write how a child feels and one way to help. A seven-day kindness plan and a word search with 10 kind words round out the set. 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 Kindness. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Empathy is understanding how someone else feels. The walk in their shoes page asks students to read a short story, write how the child in it feels, and then write one way to help.

Students plan one kind act for each day, then check it off when they do it. Send it home on a Monday and talk about it at the end of the week.

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.