The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, whose five competencies — self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and decision-making — underpin most school SEL programmes.

Is SEL part of the kindergarten day?

Yes. Most kindergartens teach feelings, friendship and self-control explicitly, because these skills make every other lesson possible.

Kindergarten Social-Emotional Learning Worksheets

Feelings faces, good choices, friendship, calm-down ideas and gratitude. · CASEL core competencies

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CASEL · Self-awareness

Feelings Faces

Naming feelings

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CASEL · Decision-making

What Would You Do?

Making choices

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CASEL · Relationship skills

Being a Good Friend

Friendship

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CASEL · Self-management

My Calm-Down Choices

Calming down

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CASEL · Self-awareness

I Am Thankful For

Gratitude

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CASEL · Social awareness

Feelings Detective

Reading feelings

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CASEL · Relationship skills

Share or Take Turns?

Sharing

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CASEL · Relationship skills

Saying Sorry

Apologizing

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CASEL · Relationship skills

My Safe Grown-Ups

Asking for help

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CASEL · Self-management

Mindful Listening

Mindfulness

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About these kindergarten social-emotional learning worksheets

These kindergarten social-emotional worksheets build the five CASEL competencies in small, concrete steps: naming feelings, making safe choices, being a good friend, calming down and noticing things to be thankful for.

Each sheet names the CASEL competency it practises, so a teacher can place it in an SEL programme and a parent can see which skill is being built.

What these 10 worksheets cover

Matching feeling words to faces (self-awareness)
Choosing the better action in everyday stories (decision-making)
What a good friend does (relationship skills)
Picking calm-down strategies (self-management)
Drawing things I am thankful for (self-awareness)
Reading faces as a feelings detective
Choosing to share or take turns
Saying sorry and making it right
Naming safe grown-ups
Mindful listening practice

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How to get the most out of them

1
Role-play the "What Would You Do?" stories with toys before circling answers.
2
Put the calm-down choices where your child can see them during a hard moment.
3
Make the gratitude page a bedtime routine once a week.

Kindergarten Social-Emotional Learning Worksheets — questions parents ask

What is CASEL?: The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, whose five competencies — self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and decision-making — underpin most school SEL programmes.
Is SEL part of the kindergarten day?: Yes. Most kindergartens teach feelings, friendship and self-control explicitly, because these skills make every other lesson possible.