Nurturing Young Hearts: Social-Emotional Learning Activities for Teachers

The early years of elementary school are an important time in a child's life.

Not only are the first academic foundations laid during this time, but it’s also when social-emotional understanding takes root!

Social-emotional learning (SEL) provides children with the tools and skills to navigate relationships, manage emotions, and develop a strong sense of self. 

In this blog post, you’ll find interactive lessons and useful resources to try with your little learners in the classroom. Let’s get inspired!

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Engaging Lesson Ideas for Teachers

Whether you’ve got kindergarten kiddies or 5th-grade pre-teens, learning how to identify and manage emotions, resolve conflicts, and cooperate with others is essential.

Why? Because SEL skills are life skills! 

You can put together a curriculum for your students in many ways. For instance, try mixing and matching daily social-emotional learning activities with dedicated lessons on specific topics.

Emotional Awareness and Regulation

• Learning about Feelings

• Building Emotional Literacy

• Using Coping Skills to Self-Regulate Anger and Anxiety

Gratitude and Kindness

• Practice Gratitude

• Building Healthy Friendships
  

Empathy and Social Skills

• Character Traits of Role Models

• Practicing Positive Social Skills, Empathy, and Kindness

• Empathy, Emotional Consequences, and Consideration
  

Community Engagement and Responsibility

• How to Provide Service to the Community

• Traits of Responsible Citizens
  

Conflict Resolution and Bullying Prevention

• Conflict Resolution

• Bullying Prevention through Interactive Activities
  

Mindfulness and Self-Care

• Practicing Mindfulness (K-2)

• Learning about Mindfulness (K-2)

• Practicing Mindfulness (3-5)

• Learning about Mindfulness (3-5)
  

Acceptance and Inclusion

• Teaching Acceptance (K-2)

• Teaching Acceptance (3-5)
  

Turn-Taking and Sharing

• Learning about Taking Turns

• Learning about Sharing

Supporting Social-Emotional Learning with Gynzy

Gynzy is an online teaching platform, so it's super easy to integrate SEL into any curriculum. Feel free to get creative! 

Use lesson plans and age-appropriate activities from the Gynzy Library, customize and save your lessons, or build them from scratch.

(You can even share your favorites with other teachers at your school, too).

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