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Students maintain a daily feelings journal where they record their emotions, what triggered them, and how they managed them. Include prompts like 'Today I felt... because...' and 'What I did to handle this feeling was...' This promotes emotional awareness and reflection.

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Students create their personal 'weather report' to describe their emotional state. They can use weather terms like 'sunny' (happy), 'stormy' (angry), 'cloudy' (confused), etc. Have students share their weather reports in small groups and discuss what might cause weather changes throughout the day. This helps build emotional vocabulary and self-awareness.

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In pairs, students practice active listening skills using the SLANT method (Sit up, Listen, Ask questions, Nod along, Track the speaker). One student shares a story about a challenging situation while the other demonstrates active listening. Partners then switch roles and provide feedback.

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SEL Video Lesson of the Week (week 7) Every Kid Is A Genius!

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Students take turns acting out different emotions while others guess. Include both basic and complex emotions appropriate for 5th grade (like frustrated, anxious, proud, etc.). Discuss facial expressions and body language that help communicate feelings. This improves emotional recognition.

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Students practice the STEP method for conflict resolution: Say what's wrong, Think of solutions, Explore consequences, Pick the best solution. Provide common conflict scenarios and have students act them out using these steps. This develops problem-solving and communication skills.

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Create a classroom gratitude chain where each student adds a paper link daily with something they're grateful for. Watch the chain grow throughout the week/month. Discuss how focusing on gratitude affects our mood and perspective. This builds positive thinking habits.

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Students write anonymous compliments or strength observations about their classmates. These are collected and shared with each student. Follow up with a discussion about how it feels to receive compliments and recognize others' strengths. This builds self-esteem and community.

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Build social and emotional skills into any class.

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Anger is protective. When vulnerable emotions exist below the surface, anger is a strong, defensive way to keep those things hidden. It's our brain's instinctual way of protecting us from feeling hurt by a friend, embarrassed when we make a mistake, or guilty when we've wronged someone.

"When he felt angry or frustrated he would cling to those negative emotions and get caught in a vicious, escalating cycle. No amount of modeling calm or positive coping techniques seemed to work, and my own ability to remain calm in the face of frustration was being sorely tested." - A Mightier mom

At Mightier we're all about the power of learning through play. Our team of clinicians and game-designers take evidence-based therapeutic methods and turn them into games for kids. Here's a list of our favorite activities for anger. Use these alongside your child to help them explore their emotions, communicate their feelings, and develop coping skills to better manage tough feelings like anger.

What does disappointment taste like? Does embarrassment have a texture? This printable activity combines crafting and gameplay, and lets you explore those underlying and more complicated emotions that so often lead to anger. It then helps kids practice communicating their feelings by letting them describe those emotions as part of the game. Cut out and build the volcano, put the anger-related emotions into the volcano, and take turns pulling emotions and describing their characteristics in a charades-like way.

How does your child name their emotions? When they feel angry, do they sometimes also feel embarrassed or disappointed? When they feel worried, do they sometimes also feel overwhelmed or self-conscious? Emotions are complicated, for adults and for kids, and there's always more going on than meets the eye. This Fishing For Feelings activity lets kids think about times they've felt two emotions at once. Print out the activity, cut out the emotion fish and fishing rod, and play this game as a family to help model and promote healthy emotional awareness, acceptance and communication around tough feelings like anger.

What does anger feel like in your cheeks? How does your stomach tell you you're worried? Noticing and understanding these sorts of emotional body cues is called interoception, and it's an incredibly important and foundational piece of building emotional awareness. Let your child flex their creative muscles and draw how they experience emotions in different parts of their body with this Body Map printable.

As kids begin to explore the physicality of their emotions, help them tune into signals their body sends when they are getting worked up. Noticing signals can cue kids to use one of their coping skills and cool down before anger takes over. This activity is also a wonderful way for parents to better understand their child's anger and how they are thinking about it.

When our brain and body feel angry, sometimes we need to directly address those physical sensations and use coping skills that help us calm down. This short guided meditation script lets your child focus on the specific parts of their body where they're noticing anger, then slowly relax those body parts to promote a sense of calm.

Emotions come in all colors and temperatures. Emotions aren't good or bad, they are just something everyone has. Even anger, which can sometimes seem more negative, is a normal and helpful emotion. So instead of avoiding anger, help your child acknowledge it and work with it. Mightier's Emotion Meter (or, if you're a Mightier family, "The Gizmo") can be a great visual representation of emotional levels and can aid your child in expressing where they are at on the scale in a moment of frustration. Emotional thermometers can help all children become more self-aware and express themselves, which leads to problem-solving. Because a verbal response isn't needed to use this tool, it is very useful to children with limited language skills or who prefer visuals to learn.

Anger impacts how we think, behave and how our bodies feel. Sometimes anger motivates us to make a change and shows us that we care about something, other times it can make us act in ways we regret. When we understand our anger, we can use calming strategies that prevent it from taking over. Conversation Cards about Anger by Mightier are developed to help us notice what makes us angry, and practice managing it in healthy ways. Heads up! Throughout the deck are several challenge cards that are both silly and serious. These help kids practice skills and engage with emotional topics in an experiential, playful way.

Intense emotions, like anger, trigger the body's automatic fight or flight response. This makes it difficult to think clearly, communicate effectively, and remember coping skills in the moments they're needed most. Mightier's at-home biofeedback videogame program is clinically validated to help children build stronger emotional regulation skills through play. For kids struggling with anger, this means greater frustration tolerance, fewer outbursts and aggressive behaviors, and a greater ability to manage and cope with difficult emotions in real life situations.

Helping kids understand their emotions is the first step in effectively navigating more challenging experiences, such as anger. This takes practice! No marathon runner built the stamina for 26 miles overnight. And just like physical health, you have to intentionally nurture your mental health. For more information about anger's role in emotional regulation, and strategies you can use to help your child calm down during moments of anger or dysregulation, check out this article.

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Jessica Ragnio, MSW, LICSW, and Associate Clinical Director at Mightier

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7 Effective Anger Management Activities for Kids - Mightier

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For kids who feel angry often, use these playful anger management activities to help your child feel more in control of their emotions.

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Welcome to our supplemental Social Emotional Learning Activities page!

As you will see below, many of the supplemental SEL activities and lesson plans include characters from our game-based, social emotional learning interventions. And when you use the online programs with your students, these activities will reinforce the learning that occurs during game play.

These supplemental resources - lessons, activities, and worksheets - are in the following SELskill areas: Communication, Cooperation, Emotion Regulation, Empathy, Impulse Control, and Social Initiation.

These resources are age-appropriate for elementary and middle school students and are typically used in a classroom or a small group setting. And in most cases, if materials are required for the activity, they are items that you already have in your classroom or office.
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Social Emotional Learning at Home

Additional Resources for Social Emotional Learning

Our classroom management plan is a step-by-step guide and includes proven strategies, tips and printables for elementary school teachers, and it covers four key components for establishing a successful, well-managed classroom.

These free downloadable posters will decorate your classroom and be great teaching resources, reinforcing social and emotional skills in your classroom and reminding students to practice their skills like emotion regulation, impulse control, empathy, and more.

Social Emotional Learning Quotes

For each of the topics below, we have curated a list of quotes. You can incorporate these quotes in your social emotional learning lessons, add them to social media images, create classroom posters, or write one on your whiteboard each day.

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95 Free Social Emotional Learning Activities

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95 free social emotional learning activities, worksheets, and lessons to help students in elementary and middle school. Most are no-prep and ready to go.