ELEMENTARY / Character Education

The DECA-P2 Record Forms are strength-based, nationally standardized, reliable, valid, and easy-to-use! This set includes 40 assessment forms and a pad of 40 individual child profile forms.

This helpful booklet gives family-friendly information on promoting a child's social and emotional growth at home. Booklet (40 pages) set of 20.

Grades 1 & up. Spark discussions on the first day and beyond. Colorful cubes feature 36 engaging questions about student experiences and perspectives, including: What are you most proud of? Who is the bravest person you know? and What foods do you like? Use in presenting character development activities; brainstorming before writing; and building oral language, social, and listening skills. Also supports fluency in ELLs and students with speech impairments. Includes activity guide. Soft foam… More »

Grades 1 - 5. Addressing morals, manners, empathy, friendship, showing and managing emotions, these games encourage discussion among children about proper social behavior as they strive to find the best solution to problems. These games cover socially challenging situations and together the group decides upon the best action. This encourages all players to communicate, listen and participate in the game. Set contains six game boards, 24 counters, one die, and one spinner.

4 years & up. Everybody gets angry sometimes. For children, anger can be very upsetting. These books help children learn to share, take friends feelings into consideration and learn to say they are sorry. Also helps children talk about their feelings and and how their actions affect people around them. Paperback. Set of 10 books.

3 years & up. This book set features simple stories reinforced with visual learning strategies, designed to help young children learn the life skills they need to prepare for school and enjoy happy, productive lives. Each story focuses a specific skill from one of four domains: social, emotional, health and safety, and cognitive. Stories are modeled on real life situations and, just as in real life, often involve more than one skill. At the end of each book there are two pages of activities… More »

4 years & up. This book set uses cheerful, brightly illustrated stories to help kids understand how their emotions and actions are related and how they can learn to manage both. Children will learn ways to deal with fears, sadness, rules, and sharing. Each book includes questions and ideas for extending the learning concepts. Set of 8 hardcover books. 28 pages. Book Titles: I'm Not Happy, I Didn't Do It!, I Hate Everything!, But Why Can't I?, Who Feels Scared?, Not Fair, Won't Share, Take a… More »

3 years & up. Give the children in your classroom an opportunity to identify their personal feelings with 50 common life scenarios. Children may not always feel the same way as their peers in specific situations and life events. This set gives them the self-discovery tools needed to evaluate how they feel and to understand that others may not feel the same way. Includes a set of emotions tiles for 10 children (depicting 6 emotions each), instruction cards, and 50 scenario cards.

3 years & up. Full color, photographic images help children to identify and label their emotions. Includes a color inlay on the frame to assist with placement of pieces. Set of 8 puzzles with 12 pieces per puzzle.

3 years & up. In playing the game and reading about the feelings and needs of the characters, children will begin to recognize feelings in others, the first step to building empathy. Includes 4 game boards, guide and story book. For 1-4 players.

5 years & up. Designed to help children identify, express, understand and respond to feelings and emotions using magnets. Create facial expressions and represent a variety of emotions and feelings with over 100 magnets, two multilingual activity cards, and a sturdy magnetic easel box for play and storage.

2 years & up. These 6 dramatic play characters express emotions that children will easily relate to. The interchangeable parts: hair, head, feet and bodies, 3 male and 3 female, allow for creation of new personalities and personal connection to the characters. The 30-piece set includes 2 blue, 2 yellow, and 2 red ball and rod bodies with gender neutral shirts and shoes. Measures 3"W x 1 3/4"D x 7"H.

3 years & up. Each brightly colored cushion is printed with facial expressions to encourage children to identify and express their emotions. Cushions are made of durable wipe clean vinyl. Set of 6 cushions. Measure 16" diameter.

4 years & up. A new twist on the long beloved game of dominoes. Learning games are a perfect tool for engaging children in the development of social skills. Includes 56 emotion-oes cards.

3 years & up. This set of eight magnetic children's faces range in emotions, allowing children to experience and identify with others. Measures 3 3/4" x 5".

3 years & up. Help children build social and emotional intelligence through shared reading and engaging texts that prompt discussions about real-world experiences. A full-color poster is included. Set of 6 paperback books.

4 years & up. There are many ways to experience emotions. Explore basic feelings like anger, fear, and happiness with big, crisp pictures and simple text. Paperback. Set of 4.

3 years & up. Help children build social and emotional intelligence through shared reading and engaging texts that prompt discussions about real-world experiences. A full-color poster is included. Set of 6 paperback books.

3 years & up. Help children build social and emotional intelligence through shared reading and engaging texts that prompt discussions about real-world experiences. A full-color poster is included. Set of 6 paperback books.

The Language Builder Picture Noun Card set is a tremendous tool for teaching key language concepts to preschool age children; children and adults with autism, developmental delay, or speech/language delay; or to anyone first learning or re-learning basic language skills. This 350 card set includes stunning, child-pleasing, bright, photographic images from nine basic categories (animals, foods, vehicles, furniture, clothing, toys, everyday objects, shapes, and colors). This is the only flashcard… More »

This innovative program allows early childhood professionals and families to screen, assess, support, and evaluate outcomes in order to promote resilience and healthy social and emotional development in preschoolers. Kit includes: Preschool Record Forms (set of 40); User's Guide and Technical Manual; Strategy Guide; For Now and Forever Family Guides (set of 20); Building Your Bounce (2 copies); and FLIP IT!®

This guide provides early childhood professionals with the directions they need to use and interpret results of the DECA-P2. The manual also provides research information related to the development and standardization of the DECA-P2, including information about the instrument's reliability and validity.

This resource offers early childhood professionals research-based strategies to enhance children's social and emotional health, as well as checklists and tips for improving the overall quality of programs.

4 - 7 years. Explore the look and tone of emotions as kids match narrative statements to photographs of children's faces showing different expressions. To play, students listen to the sounds on the CD and place tokens on the images of their game cards that match what they hear. Each game set includes 12 game cards (5 1/2" x 8 1/2" each) with 8 photos per card, 120 game tokens, an audio CD, and directions in English, Spanish, and French. It also supports NCTM and NAEYC standards.