Good Choices Maze

Read the try again story aloud and ask how the child in it felt before and after. Use the word yet in everyday talk, like you can't tie your shoes yet. On the drawing page, talk about what your child will practice next, and come back to it in a few weeks.

Six pages on good choices and a growth mindset for Pre-K and Kindergarten. Children circle a smile or a frown for each choice, cut out and order a short story about trying again with a tower, match each toy to its clean-up bin, and help a girl through a maze past good choices to the playground. They also trace I can do it and color a star, and draw something they cannot do yet. Four pages have an answer key.

Yes, both. We made it for Kindergarten 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 growth mindset and good choices. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Keep it to one idea: you can't do it yet, but practice helps you learn. The try again story, where a tower falls and gets built again, shows it in three pictures.

Putting toys away is a choice young children make every day. Matching each toy to its bin turns it into a small, clear good choice they can practice at home or in class.

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.

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.

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.

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.