Teach kids about happiness, responsibility, growth mindset, and emotions this spring in your kindergarten, first grade, or second grade classroom with this spring SEL social-emotional learning resource! The mini-lessons and activities are perfect for your spring, Earth Day, and Mother’s Day lesson plans.
⭐What is the scope and sequence?
- 4 weeks of SEL lessons and activities in 4 themes for the spring (March, April, & May).
- There are 5-7 mini-lessons and activities for each theme.
❤️Weekly themes include:
- happiness & positivity
- growth mindset
- responsibility & decision making
- managing emotions
✏️Theme #1: Happiness.
Discuss what it means to be happy. These activities are perfect for discussing, identifying, and sharing activities and things that bring us joy and happiness.
6 mini-lessons & activities:
- anchor chart & lesson about what makes them happy
- Happiness journal
- Quote posters about happiness
- Spring Bingo
- I feel SUNNY sunshine craft
- “Bee” Happy bumblebee coloring & writing template
- 'Happy Right Now' book activity by Julie berry
✏️Theme #2: Responsibility
Teach and encourage students to be responsible and make good decisions. These activities give your students a variety of ways to practice being responsible and how their choices reflect that.
5 Mini-Lessons & Activities:
- Anchor chart & Lesson about how to be responsible (at home, at school, in the community)
- Responsibility calendar
- Decision making “responsibility” scenarios
- "My world and ME" writing & mobile craft
- "A Garden of Responsibility" class job set-up
✏️Theme #7: Growth Mindset
Discuss what it means to have a growth mindset. Your students will learn what it means to have a positive attitude and how they may not be able to do something right now, but with practice, they can get there.
7 Mini-Lessons & Activities:
- Anchor chart & Lesson about Growth Mindset – In spring, I can/I can’t yet
- 'After the Fall' book activity
- Umbrella with raindrops hat
- Blossoming Into certificate
- "Grow Your Mind" flower craft
- "My Budding Brain" Poem & activity
- "Over the rainbow” Personal growth rainbow craft
✏️Theme #4: Managing Emotions
Learning how to manage our emotions effectively is extremely important. Teach students how to identify their emotions and the tools they’d need to be able to manage them independently.
6 Mini-Lessons & Activities:
- Feelings chart with flower emotions
- The Feeling Flower BOOK and writing activity
- Feeling Charades with different feeling cards
- “Today I feel” flower journal
- Spring Feelings mini-book
- Spring themed brain breaks
- Classroom calm area with a header and bulletin board letters
DIGITAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED: Many of the activities from the printable version have been created in a digital version. These are ready in Google Slides for use in Google Classroom. The digital pages are great for use when teaching online or whole group!
✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides: the types of mini-lessons, topics, activities, digital activities, and more.
⭐I suggest teaching one lesson/activity per day. They can be easily integrated into your morning meeting, read aloud time, writing block, or during brain breaks and transitions. This resource was made with the K-2 classroom teacher in mind, but work well with any childhood educator, homeschool parent, or school counselors working with groups of children.
❤️Why focus on social-emotional learning in the spring
- The spring season is a great time to focus on what brings us joy and the positivity of change as spring approaches.
- It is a time to reflect on how we manage our emotions and how we practice being responsible and good decision making.
- There are also many activities to help kids understand what it means to have a growth mindset, and how we can embrace learning new things in in the spring.
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