Pre-K Social-Emotional Learning Worksheets
Naming feelings, kindness, calm breathing and checking in with myself. · Head Start Early Learning Outcomes
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How Do They Feel?
Naming feelings
I Feel Happy When…
Naming feelings
Kind Hands, Kind Words
Kindness
Star Breathing
Calming down
My Feelings Today
Self-awareness
How Would You Feel?
Naming feelings
My Kind Hands
Kindness
Colors of My Feelings
Self-awareness
Things That Make Me Happy
Self-awareness
Please, Thank You, Sorry
Manners
My Friends
Friendship
I Can Help at Home
Helping
About these pre-k social-emotional learning worksheets
These Pre-K social-emotional worksheets help a three-to-five-year-old name feelings, notice them in their own body and choose a kind or calming response. Faces, pictures and short cards do the work, so no reading is needed.
Social-emotional skills predict school success as strongly as early reading and maths. A child who can say "I feel angry" is far less likely to show it by grabbing or hitting, which is why naming feelings comes first here.
What these 12 worksheets cover
- Recognising happy, sad, angry, scared and surprised faces
- Drawing personal moments linked to feelings
- Telling kind choices from unkind ones
- Star breathing to calm a busy body
- A daily feelings check-in
- Naming how someone feels in everyday moments
- Spotting kind and unkind hands
- Matching feelings to colors
- Drawing the things that make them happy
- Practising please, thank you and sorry
- My Friends
- I Can Help at Home
All worksheet sets
How to get the most out of them
- 1
Name your own feelings out loud during the day. Children learn feeling words from hearing adults use them, not from worksheets alone.
- 2
Practise "Star Breathing" when your child is already calm. A strategy that has been rehearsed is one they can reach for when upset.
- 3
Keep "My Feelings Today" on the fridge for a week and talk about what changed their feelings.
Pre-K Social-Emotional Learning Worksheets — questions parents ask
- What is social-emotional learning in Pre-K?
- Learning to recognise and name feelings, manage big emotions, get along with others and make kind choices. These sheets practise each of those in a playful way.
- My child cannot read yet. Can they use these?
- Yes. Every sheet works with faces and pictures, and a grown-up can read the short cards aloud.
