***Parents/guardians are encouraged to monitor children's internet activity at all times.
Activities
Anger Management
Anxiety
Ready for School (Grades 2-5)
Umbrella (Grades K-2)
- Description: "This month’s printable was created to support and encourage small steps of preparation to help our children feel ready for school" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "The printable is blank so you can tailor the steps to your child" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- Suggestions:
- "Look at the sample for examples of the types of steps you can include" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Think of small steps that you can take together with your child to help them feel more prepared" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Write or have your child draw each step" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "Discuss the steps together" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "If you have more than 6 steps, simply print out multiple copies of the free printable" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Adapt the steps to the needs of your child. Anything that can help them practice something new or feel more prepared when showing up will be helpful" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Helping them feel more prepared will also help them feel a little more in control over a new situation" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
Umbrella (Grades K-2)
- Description: "A simple activity to help children visualize themselves protected from negative thoughts" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "A great way to stimulate conversations" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
Bullying Prevention
PACER Center's Kids Against Bullying Classroom Activity Book (Grades 4-5)
Career Awareness
California Career Zone (Grades 4-5)
Emotional Regulation
Communication Activity: Think Before You Speak (Grades 2-5)
Emotional Regulation Activity: Calm Down Tools (Grades K-3)
My Emotional Remote Control (Grades 2-5)
Emotional Regulation Activity: Calm Down Tools (Grades K-3)
My Emotional Remote Control (Grades 2-5)
- Description: "A visual reminder that we control our emotions" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "The remote allows us to remember some de-escalation and re-setting steps to calm ourselves until we can decide how we want to react to a situation" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "This is how we change our emotional channel" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- Suggestions:
- "Talk about who controls your emotions and try to find examples of how you can bring yourself back to a calm place so that you can control your emotions again" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Write down some of your own ideas in the blank spaces before assembling" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Leave the remote in an area where it can serve as a visual reminder" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Have your child practice self-control by giving them the remote when the situation demands it" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
Gratitude
Weekly Gratitude Journal (Grades K-5)
- Description: "A simple way to start the habit of gratitude" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "Find one or more things to be grateful for each day of the week" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- Suggestions:
- "Find one thing to be grateful for each day of the week" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Print a copy for each student or family member" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Discuss together what acknowledging and expressing gratitude feels like and how it can help us focus and take responsibility for our own happiness" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Use for yourself when you are feeling down to remind yourself of all that there is to be grateful" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Use to end an especially hard week" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
Identifying and Exploring Emotions/Feelings
Match the TV Emotion (Grades K-5)
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Kindness
How I Show Myself Kindness (Grades K-5)
- Description: "We know what kindness is supposed to look like and yet we often forget that we need to start with ourselves" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "Kindness towards ourselves can look like and mean something very different to each of us. Depending on when and where the question is asked, the answer will change" (Plant Love Grow, 2021). "Whatever the answer is for you, it is a question worth asking" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- Suggestions:
- "Discuss how being kind to ourselves is the first step towards any other form of kindness" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Discuss how depending on our needs, kindness can mean and look like something different each time" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Print and keep as a visual reminder of the importance of kindness" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Fill up when needed and see what comes up for you" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
- "Do as a family and have each person fill up a section" (Plant Love Grow, 2021).
Self-Control
Stop and Think Activity: Positive and Negative Consequences (Grades 2-5)
What's in My Control? (Grades 2-5)
What's in My Control? (Grades 2-5)
Self-Esteem
Positive Self-Talk (Grades 2-5)
Worry
The Worry Scale (Grades 2-5)
Online
Academic
BrainPOP Jr.
Discovery KIDS
KidsHealth: For Kids
Magic Tree House: Kids
National Geographic: Kids
PBS Kids
Sesame Street
StoryBots
Discovery KIDS
KidsHealth: For Kids
Magic Tree House: Kids
National Geographic: Kids
PBS Kids
Sesame Street
StoryBots
Bullying Prevention
Growth Mindset
Internet Safety
Social and Emotional Learning