1st Grade Social-Emotional Learning Worksheets

About these 1st grade social-emotional learning worksheets

These 1st grade social-emotional worksheets add depth to feelings work: more precise feeling words such as proud, nervous and frustrated, rating how big a feeling is, a four-step way to solve a problem, a kindness challenge and setting a goal.

Each sheet names the CASEL competency it builds, from self-awareness to decision-making.

What these 12 worksheets cover

• ✓Feeling words beyond happy and sad (self-awareness)
• ✓Rating feelings on a thermometer (self-management)
• ✓Stop, think, choose, try (decision-making)
• ✓Kindness bingo (social awareness)
• ✓A goal ladder (self-management)
• ✓Making a calm-down plan
• ✓Growing a kind words garden
• ✓Whole-body listening
• ✓Writing compliment cards
• ✓Learning from mistakes
• ✓My Strengths
• ✓Solving Problems with Friends

All worksheet sets

How to get the most out of them

1. 1

   Use the thermometer during a calm moment to talk about a big feeling from earlier in the day.

2. 2

   Keep kindness bingo running for a week and celebrate a line of four.

3. 3

   Pick a small goal for the ladder, such as tying shoes, so success comes quickly.

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