Social & Emotional

3 years & up. Kaplan's Emotion Sorting Boxes help children identify and sort through their feelings. The set includes 20 scenario tiles and 4 emotion boxes with 4 different expressions. Children will choose a tile, identify what is happening in the picture and how they would feel if they experienced that scenario, and then place their tile in the box that best represents that emotion. Makes a fantastic children's emotional health activity!

Grades K - 1. A wonderful way to teach diversity and tolerance to young children with full-colored photos of children with different disabilities enjoying activities with their peers.

The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Clinical Form (DECA-C) is designed to be used by early childhood mental health consultants and other mental health professionals with select children, ages 2 through 5, who are already showing significant behavioral concerns. The DECA-C is a 62-item scale that can be completed by either teachers or parents in about 15 minutes. The DECA-C contains all of the strength-based resilience items and scales found on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers, 2nd Edition (DECA-P2), but also assesses social and emotional concerns, including: aggression, attention problems, emotional control problems, and withdrawal/depression.

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 cubes measure 1.625". Set of six.

4 years & up. The Stencil Mill Set - ABCs, 123s, Animals, People & Emotions are perfect for creating pictures that include alphabet, numbers, animals, transportation, people and more! Allow children to discover and explore emotions using the mix and match Emotion Stencils, also included in this set. Use these stencils in an interactive lesson about emotions and how to regulate each of them. The Stencil Mill set includes twenty-four 4.25" x 6" plastic stencils that are color coded by category for easy selection and come in a plastic storage box. The Emotions Stencil set includes 6 stencils that measure approximately 8" x 8" and include an idea guide.

4 years & up. Discover and explore emotions in art with these unique Mix & Match Illustrating Emotions Stencils children. Each diverse boy and girl represents a basic emotion. These emotion stencils promote social emotional learning, fine motor skills, and creativity. Use these stencils in an interactive lesson about emotions and how to regulate each of them. Trace the stencils to create over 30 different combinations! This set includes 6 stencils measuring approximately 8"L x 8"W and an idea guide.

3 years & up. Help children build resilience, confidence, and healthy social-emotional skills with Children's Books That Promote Resilience - Set of 14. Designed for ages 3 and up, this classroom book collection introduces relatable stories that support conversations about feelings, perseverance, self-control, problem-solving, and positive relationships. Use these books during read-alouds, SEL lessons, quiet reading, or small group discussions to help children recognize strengths, manage challenges, and develop the protective factors they need to thrive.

3 years & up. Help children build social and emotional intelligence with these wonderful I Believe in Myself Book Set for Developing Confidence and Resilience. These books are great for shared reading and the engaging texts that prompt discussions about real-world experiences. Encourage children to discuss what helps them feel confident or hopeful. A full-color poster is included. Set of 6 paperback books.

4 years & up. Teach children social skills that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. This series of Learning to Get Along® books shows children appropriate ways to act (such as following rules and taking turns) when they are with their friends, at school, or in other social situations. The skills children learn from these books will set them up for success in their eventual academic, personal, and professional lives.

5 - 8 years. There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. This book reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway. Hardcover. 32 pages.

Your Journey Together (YJT) is a strength-based curriculum designed to promote the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable children and their families. Help to improve parenting skills with this research-based and trauma-informed curriculum designed to build resilience in children and their families. It focuses on empowering parents to promote safe, trusting and healing environments - all key elements of a trauma-sensitive program. While this resilience-building parenting curriculum is designed for families with young children (infants, toddlers, preschoolers) many of the concepts apply to families with children of all ages. It shows parents how to use ordinary, everyday routines, activities and interactions as resilience-building opportunities. YJT is listed on the Parenting Curricula Review Databases for Head Start and Early Head Start programs.

3 years & up. Cooperative games eliminate stress, build self-esteem, and teach kids that playing together can be fun! Unlike a traditional game where there is only one winner, in a cooperative game the players work as a team against a common obstacle, not against each other. Children learn to share, make decisions together, and play together in respectful and compassionate ways. Board games include: Feed The Wozzle, Hoot Owl Hoot, Stone Soup, and Count Your Chickiens. Set of 4 games.

Grades K - 1. Spark the interest of beginning readers with engaging fiction and authentic informational content! These high-quality books feature an appropriate reading level and familiar standards-based themes. Set of 6 books have 12 - 20 pages each.

3 years & up. Emotions Dough Rollers & Tactile Emotion Stones are an engaging way to help children recognize and talk about the key emotions they may be experiencing. Each of the 6 stone rollers measure 2.75" long, sized perfectly for small hands. Simply roll into play dough, clay or sand, to make a body and add a face to complete the emotion. The set of Tactile Emotion Stones are engraved with faces showing 12 common emotions; happiness, fear, sadness, surprise, anger, confusion, shyness, and more! Each stone measures 2.25" wide. Rollers & Stones are made from a unique mix of resin and real stone, durable enough for use in sand and water, indoors and outside.