Kirjahaku

Kids love these fun, enjoyable, delightfully illustrated ready-to-use handouts. Engaging activity pages involve students in learning important life skills through words, pictures, and with guidance they understand and relate to. Organized around recognized building blocks of social-emotional learning these reproducible handouts provide quick, easily implemented experiences in vital issues such as: - Appreciating unique qualities and abilities. - Sharing interests, hobbies, and favorite books. - Expressing creativity. - Learning to use positive self-talk. - Understanding and identifying feelings. - Identifying dreams and aspirations. - Learning kind behaviors. - Expressing gratitude - Valuing rules. - Making and keeping friends. - Identifying positive qualities in others. - Communicating effectively. - Developing positive attitudes. - Recognizing accomplishments of self and others. - Constructing a "family tree." - Identifying one's "roots." - Solving problems. - Making decisions. - Setting and attaining goals. ... and more Keep at your fingertips these involving student handouts that teach necessary skills. Appropriate for use with individuals, groups or classrooms. Grades 2-6

Through these easy-to-implement, high-interest activities, children learn new and effective skills and behaviors for getting along with others and managing their own emotions. Social-emotional skills are fundamental to success in life, and children should be consistently helped to develop them. This rich and ready resource is packed with everything you need to bring these important skills to life with your group of kids. It's full of stimulating, enjoyable experiences that you can grasp at a glance and use immediately. Activities help children to: - work collaboratively and considerately with others - learn important aspects of communicating - listening, speaking, writing, and reading - value and respect individual differences - manage difficult emotions - learn refusal and resistance skills - activate positive esteem and self-awareness - develop a sense of belonging

This learning guide for the elementary grades teaches your students how to reduce and control anger and to settle disputes in a pro-social manner. These student-tested activities help children to: ] understand the dynamics of conflict and anger ] improve communication skills ] examine the cause and effect of conflict ] become aware of their sources of anger ] appreciate different perspectives ] distinguish between the language of anger escalation and effective resolution ] develop tolerance ] manage anger and aggression ] achieve win-win outcomes. This book is chock full of enjoyable, challenging activities that include step-by-step guidelines, reproducible experience sheets, and relevant discussion questions that encourage higher order thinking and collaborative problem solving. A highlight of this book is the section presenting a unique role-playing process that makes positive behavioral rehearsal easy, fun and relevant. This is a must have book for all educators who want to develop in their students the important social-emotional skills of creative conflict resolution and anger management. Use these high-impact lessons to teach your students to become conscious of the choices they typically make in anger and conflict situations, and to learn real-life strategies to replace ineffective behaviors with those that work. Grade Levels: K-6