All Practices
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Take-Home Skill: Gratitude Questions for Kids
Discussion questions for families to deepen their child’s experience of gratitude
Feelings Circle: An SEL Kernels Practice for Kindergarten
In a group meeting, students share their feelings while also building their feelings vocabulary and emotion knowledge.
Finger Tracing: Mindful Breathing for Students
Students track their breathing as they trace up and down the fingers of one hand.
Loving-Kindness Buddy Wishes
Students extend kindness to themselves and others.
Flow and Tell
In this circle activity, students practice mindful speaking and mindful listening.
Shake It Off
Students observe their breath while relaxing and tensing their bodies, and then practice shaking and freezing their bodies.
Building Perseverance Through Role-Play
Use drama as a way to motivate students to stick with boring or difficult tasks.
Be Like Nature: Mindfulness for Young Children
Students go outside and experience mindfulness linked to elements of nature.
Barefoot Walk: A Mindful Movement Practice
Students feel the earth under their feet in this mindful movement practice.
Wishes for the World: A Loving-kindness Activity
Students send kindness and good wishes to others.
2 x 10: Getting to Know A Student
Build positive relationships with students in 2 minutes a day.
Rock-a-bye: Mindful Breathing for Elementary Students
Students learn to relax their bodies and quiet their minds.
Gratitude Journal for Students
Students write five things they’re grateful for once a day for two weeks.
Three Good Things for Students
Students record three good things that happened to them each day for a week.
Magic Tag
A magical game of tag that promotes inclusion and teamwork.
Crooked Circle: A Game for Building Trust
A game involving balance and teamwork that helps build trust.
Superstar
Students build trust and inclusion through a quick and fun game that reveals their commonalities.
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