When students learn to use I-Statements they learn to take responsibility for their own feelings and it also helps them appropriately express their needs and wants.

Objective: To help students understand how to use  I-Statements 

How will learning take place? Through  an engaging game to help students practice distinguishing the difference between someone using I-statements and someone not using I-statements.

Additional Components (not included in the digital version on boom learning): There will also be a printable activity sheet to go right along with this game, a transition activity to close the lesson as well as an extended learning idea on how to embed this casually into your classroom throughout the week or even better the year!

Find the game here: I Can Use I-Statements

Similar Digital Version on Boom Learning:I-Statements

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Unit 3- Feelings And Emotions 

The Best Of Me Full Social Emotional & Mental Wellness Curriculum

We make choices every day and we want to teach students how to make positive choices so that they can avoid unwanted consequences.

Objective: To help students understand how to make positive choices.

How will learning take place? Through  an engaging game to help students practice distinguishing the difference between positive choices and poor choices. 

Additional Components (not included in the digital version on boom learning): There will also be a printable activity sheet to go right along with this game, a transition activity to close the lesson as well as an extended learning idea on how to embed this casually into your classroom throughout the week or even better the year!

Find the game here: I Can Make Positive Choices

Similar Digital Version on Boom Learning: Positive Choices

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Unit 1- I Am Me And I Am Accepted

The Best Of Me Full Social Emotional & Mental Wellness Curriculum

Teaching students to use affirmations helps to raise their self-esteem and reduce negative thoughts. By talking about themselves in a positive way, students will begin to believe what they say which leads to more confidence, perseverance and a growth mindset.

Objective: To have students practice saying kind words about themselves

How will learning take place? Through  a social story where students practice saying affirmations out loud.

Additional Components (not included in the digital version on boom learning): There will also be a printable activity sheet to go right along with this game, a transition activity to close the lesson as well as an extended learning idea on how to embed this casually into your classroom throughout the week or even better the year!

Find the game here: Affirmations

Similar Digital Version on Boom Learning:Affirmations

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Unit 1- I Am Me And I Am Accepted

The Best Of Me Full Social Emotional & Mental Wellness Curriculum

Teaching children to celebrate and respect the differences of others will reduce negative thoughts and or bullying in the future. 

Objective: To recognize, understand and accept differences and see differences as being “a greatness.”

How will learning take place?  Through an engaging game to help students recognize and view differences as someone’s greatness.

Additional Components (not included in the digital version on boom learning): There will also be a printable activity sheet to go right along with this game, a transition activity to close the lesson as well as an extended learning idea on how to embed this casually into your classroom throughout the week or even better the year!

Find the game here: Diversity: What Is Your Greatness?

Similar Digital Version on Boom Learning: Diversity: What Is Your Greatness?

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Unit 1- I Am Me And I Am Accepted

The Best Of Me Full Social Emotional & Mental Wellness Curriculum

Teaching children to celebrate and respect the differences of others will reduce negative thoughts and or bullying in the future. 

Objective: To help students understand that we all look different but we all still fit together in this world. 

How will learning take place?  Providing an engaging game to help students recognize and respect differences in others.

Additional Components (not included in the digital version on boom learning): There will also be a printable activity sheet, a transition activity to close the lesson as well as an extended learning idea on how to embed this casually into your classroom throughout the week or even better the year!

Find the game here: Appreciating Differences 

Similar Digital Version on Boom Learning: Appreciating Differences

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Unit 1- I Am Me And I Am Accepted

The Best Of Me Full Social Emotional & Mental Wellness Curriculum 

Friends are never apart maybe in “distance” but never in the heart. Many children in this world are or will be starting distant learning which makes it especially tough on the littlest learners to explore social-emotional learning and new friendships. However, it is what it is and we will be stronger for it! 

I hope Tommy can help bring in some of those social-emotional tools your child might be missing when distant learning. In this episode, Tommy made friends through distance learning kindergarten! He even turned his friends into Lego People so he could “play” with them at his house!! As always, thanks for watching!

What can be better than drawing kisses and hugs?! Using x’s and o’s, the international symbols for hugs and kisses, can also be some fantastic pre-writing strokes. Crosses and lines are some of the first pre-writing strokes we see in children (it’s a step up from complete scribbling).

It is when their hands become a little more controlled and they are able to make these smaller lines that eventually will turn into letters! It can be tricky to get them in these spaces so if your child is at a late scribbling stage I would make the boxes way bigger to make the x’s and o’s in!
Enjoy and spread some x’s and o’x today Covid style!