How do I help my child name their feelings?

Name feelings out loud in everyday moments, yours and theirs: you look frustrated, the tower fell down. Then use a picture page to practice, like circling the feeling face or matching a picture to how it would feel. Children who have words for a feeling can tell you about it instead of only showing it, which makes the feeling easier to handle together.

What calming strategies work for young children?

Slow breathing is the easiest to teach. Belly breathing and five-finger breathing give a child something to trace or touch while they breathe in and out, and stop, breathe, think gives them three steps to remember. Practice when your child is already calm, so the strategy is familiar before a big feeling arrives, and set up a calm down corner with a few comfort items.

Can my preschooler use these worksheets?

Yes. The pages are written for Pre-K and Kindergarten. Each one uses pictures and a short direction that a grown-up reads aloud, and children answer by circling, matching, coloring, tracing, drawing or cutting and gluing. The only writing is tracing a few friendly or feeling words.

Kindergarten Growth Mindset and Good Choices Worksheets

Ages 5-6 · Free previews · Print-ready PDFs

Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

Circle good choices, put a try-again tower story in order, trace I can do it, draw something you can't do yet and follow a good choices maze.

Kindergarten Social Studies Social-Emotional Learning Growth mindset and good choices Clear All

Choices and Consequences Match

GradeGrades 1 & K

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

Clean Up Time, Match the Toy to the Bin

GradeKindergarten

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

Fixed or Growth Mindset? Sentence Sort

GradeGrades 1 & K

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

Good Choice or Not So Good?

GradeKindergarten

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

Good Choices Maze

GradeKindergarten

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

I Can Do It Tracing

GradeKindergarten

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

I Can Try Again, Put in Order

GradeKindergarten

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

I Got Better With Practice, Before and After

GradeGrades 1 & K

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

Mistakes Help Me Learn, Read and Answer

GradeGrades 1 & K

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

My Goal Ladder

GradeGrades 1 & K

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

Something I Can't Do Yet

GradeKindergarten

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

The Power of Yet, Change the Words

GradeGrades 1 & K

TopicSocial-Emotional Learning

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Social-emotional learning, often called SEL, is how children learn to understand their feelings, get along with others and make good choices. For 4 to 6 year olds that means naming feelings like happy, sad and mad, sharing and taking turns, using kind words, calming down with a few deep breaths, and trying again when something is hard. These worksheets practice each of those with pictures, not reading.

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