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Worksheet in which children can reflect on their emotions and draw or write about the things that made them happy, sad, angry or anxious throughout the week.
Why do you need this?
Understanding emotions is an essential social-emotional skill for children to learn. This worksheet helps children in labelling complex emotions, reflecting on their responses and finding healthy outlets.
How and when might you use this?
At the end of a week teachers might incorporate this into early morning work to gauge a student’s a state of mind for the beginning of the day or at the end of the day to use as a way to reflect. It may also be used in counselling sessions to help identify mood patterns and behavioral triggers. This worksheet can help to spark conversations around difficult emotions.
What’s included?
This worksheet has four sections titled ‘I felt happy when…’, ‘I felt sad when…’, “I felt angry when…’ and ‘I felt worried when…’. Each box contains space for children to write or draw about their emotional experiences throughout the week. They may draw things such as playing with friends, arguing with siblings, struggling with schoolwork, worrying about an upcoming test, feeling proud of an accomplishment etc
Worksheet in which children should think about ways they have previously dealt with anger and better ways they could deal with their anger in the future.
Why do you need this?
Teaching children alternative strategies for managing anger helps them develop essential skills for emotional regulation. By asking children to think about alternative coping strategies to negative behaviors, teachers empower students to handle their emotions in a healthy and productive manner.
Tantrums, shouting, running away, and hitting can disrupt the learning environment and compromise the safety and well-being of students and teachers. By equipping students with effective anger management strategies, teachers contribute to creating a safer and more conducive learning environment for everyone.
How and when might you use this?
This worksheet can be used in a variety of ways:
· During classroom discussions about emotions and behaviour management.
· Guided group activities
· Counselling sessions with students struggling with anger management to explore personalised coping strategies.
· Following a conflict or behavioural incident as a tool for self-reflection.
· This worksheet could be used proactively with students as a preventative measure to promote self-awareness and emotional regulation.
What’s included?
This worksheet includes 5 boxes showing inappropriate ways of dealing with anger: shout and scream, run out of the room, hot people, tantrum and throw or break things. Then there are empty boxes next to each one for children to write alternative more appropriate ways coping strategies such deep breathing or go to a quiet space to calm down.
CVC word bingo with 2 different versions – one with words and one with pictures.
Why do you need this?
Bingo games provide an engaging and interactive way to reinforce phonics skills, including decoding and blending CVC words. Playing bingo helps students practice recognising common letter-sound correspondences and blending them into words. CVC word bingo introduces students to a variety of simple, high-frequency words that are essential for early reading development. By playing the game, students expand their sight word vocabulary and become more proficient readers.
How and when might you use this?
This game can be used in a variety of ways:
· Whole class instructions as a fun and interactive way to reinforce phonic skills
· Small group activities for targeted practice of decoding CVC words
· Children can play independently or in pairs
· Homework to reinforce learning of CVC words
What’s included?
Included in this resource is:
· 7 bingo game boards with pictures on
· 7 bingo game boards with words on
· 56 picture cards
· 56 word cards
· 14 colour cards
Worksheet for children to think what they imagine their anger to look like. Young students may sketch angry monsters or dark storm clouds. Older children may draw more abstract manifestations with flames or jagged lines.
Why do you need this?
Drawing their anger allows children to visually represent their emotions, providing a concrete and tangible way to express their feelings. Creating their own visual interpretation of anger allows children to express themselves in a nonverbal manner. This can be especially beneficial for students who may struggle to articulate their emotions verbally.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets could be used in a variety of ways:
· At the beginning of the school day or during transitions, teachers can have students complete the worksheet to check in with their emotions.
· During PSHE lessons students can draw what their anger would look like as they learn about different emotions and strategies for managing them.
· After conflicts or disagreements among students, teachers can use the worksheet to facilitate discussions about anger and its expression.
· Small group work where the children discuss and reflect on their anger and coping strategies they use.
· During counselling sessions with children who are struggling with anger or emotional regulation.
· Teachers can integrate the worksheets into art activities to combine creative expression with emotional exploration.
Variety of blank faces, both boys and girls, for children to draw on eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth to represent the emotion they are feeling.
Why do you need this?
These worksheets provide a creative outlet for children to express and explore their emotions visually. Drawing facial expressions allows children to externalise their feelings and communicate them in a tangible way.
Drawing their own facial expressions encourages children to reflect on their emotions and recognise how they are feeling. This process promotes self-awareness and emotional literacy as children learn to identify and label their emotions.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets could be used in a variety of ways:
· Teachers can incorporate these worksheets into morning work to draw the facial expression that reflects how they are feeling at the start of the day. This activity sets a positive tone for the day and allows teachers to gauge students’ emotional well-being.
· During transition throughout the day teachers can have children fill in these sheets as a check in with their emotions.
· During PSHE lessons to teach students about different emotions and how to express them.
· Small group work where the children discuss and reflect on different emotions together.
· During counselling sessions to help students process and express their emotions.
· Teachers can integrate the worksheets into art activities to combine creative expression with emotional exploration
What’s included?
Resource includes 16 different face outlines with different hair styles.
4 worksheets for children to describe and reflect on their emotions including happy, sad, angry and anxious.
Why do you need this?
Understanding emotions is an essential social-emotional skill for children to learn. This set of four worksheets helps children identify and process their feelings in a reflective way. Children can build emotional intelligence through self-expression.
What’s included?
There are four different worksheets for happy, sad, angry and anxious. In each worksheet there us a box to draw a time they felt that emotion and then there are questions underneath to help the child reflect on what happened, how it felt, how it affected their behavior and how they were able to cope with feeling that way.
How and when might you use this?
Teachers can use these as a social-emotional check in to get an insight into children’s emotional intelligence or as a lesson teaching about different emotions. Counsellors could use these as a way to begin meaningful discussions.
11 Worksheets with different activities to recognise and find nonsense words. Nonsense words are an important part in assessing phonics and decoding because a student can only decode and read the word if they understand the phonic sounds within the word.
2 different versions of Emotions Bingo game with words and emoji face pictures
Why do you need this?
Emoji Emotions Bingo is a fun and interactive game that builds emotional literacy skills. This engaging multisensory activity reinforces identification and labeling of feelings like happy, sad, angry, surprised, disgusted, afraid, calm, and more.
How and when might you use this?
Students match emoji facial expressions on their bingo cards to emotions displayed on the calling cards to get 3 in a row and win!
Ideal for whole class, small groups, counseling, speech therapy, and home use, the competitive gameplay provides repeated emotion recognition practice kids love.
What’s included?
Included in this resource is:
· 4 bingo game boards with emoji faces on
· 4 bingo game boards with emotion words on
· 12 picture cards
· 12 word cards
· 9 colour cards
This is a reading intervention aimed at young children learning to read and those struggling with reading. It will mostly be helpful for children in reception or year 1 however it will also help support children with special needs. It helps teach and secure learning in letter identification and sounds, CVC words, blending, sight words and nonsense words and fluency and comprehension.
What are the sections included?
Letter Recognition
Initial and Final Sounds
Short Vowel Sounds
Blending and Fluency
Nonsense Words
Sight Words
Comprehension
This pack is perfect for individual or small group work to help fill gaps in previous learning and secure skills needed for reading.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
25 worksheets each with 6 different activities to support learning to read and spell high frequency sight words: reading, colouring, making the word with magnets, tracing, writing and putting the word into a sentence.
Why do you need this?
Instantly recognising common sight words is a milestone of early reading fluency. These 25 worksheets provide multi-sensory practice reading, spelling, tracing, and using frequently encountered vocabulary like “the”, “and”, “is” and more. With six activities per page, students gain repeated exposure through varied formats. Tracing and writing build motor skills and proper letter formation. Fun exercises like forming the words in magnets and filling in blanks allow practical application.
How and when might you use this?
Each worksheet focuses on six different high-frequency words. Students will read the word, color in the word, arrange letter magnets to form the word, trace the word, write them from memory, and use them in sentences. These techniques reinforce sight word recognition through visual, kinesthetic, and cognitive learning styles.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
25 PDF worksheets
These fans each contain a different emotion face and word. They can be used for activities and teaching about emotions or alternatively can be used to support non-verbal children to express their emotions.
Why do you need this?
If children learn to understand and recognise emotions both in themselves and others, learning to identify and label them then this can ensure they will be better equipped to manage and regulate themselves when they experience strong emotions. If children are able to notice how they are feeling and then use strategies to calm themselves down then they are more likely to have successful friendships and to be able to manage set backs.
How and when might you use this?
The 15 illustrated fan pieces each feature a different emotion face and word. Expressions like happy, sad, angry, surprised, and more build children’s emotional vocabulary. Teachers can prompt conversations about when we feel certain ways and how our faces show it.
What’s included?
Included in this resource are 15 emoji emotion cards including the emotions:
· Happy
· Sad
· Scared
· Tired
· Worried
· Excited
· Angry
· Silly
· Disappointed
· Jealous
· Confused
· Poorly
· Disgusted
· Surprised
· Embarrassed
These fans each contain a different emotion face and word. They can be used for activities and teaching about emotions or alternatively can be used to support non-verbal children to express their emotions.
Why do you need this?
If children learn to understand and recognise emotions both in themselves and others, learning to identify and label them then this can ensure they will be better equipped to manage and regulate themselves when they experience strong emotions. If children are able to notice how they are feeling and then use strategies to calm themselves down then they are more likely to have successful friendships and to be able to manage set backs.
How and when might you use this?
The 15 illustrated fan pieces each feature a different emotion face and word. Expressions like happy, sad, angry, surprised, and more build children’s emotional vocabulary. Teachers can prompt conversations about when we feel certain ways and how our faces show it.
What’s included?
Included in this resource are 15 emoji emotion cards including the emotions:
· Happy
· Sad
· Scared
· Calm
· Worried
· Excited
· Furious
· Annoyed
· Disappointed
· Miserable
· Confused
· Poorly
· Angry
· Tired
· Embarrassed
2 different versions of Emotions Bingo game with words and emotion face pictures
Why do you need this?
Emotions Bingo is a fun and interactive game that builds emotional literacy skills. This engaging multisensory activity reinforces identification and labeling of feelings like happy, sad, angry, surprised, disgusted, afraid, calm, and more.
How and when might you use this?
Students match facial expressions on their bingo cards to emotions displayed on the calling cards to get 3 in a row and win!
Ideal for whole class, small groups, counseling, speech therapy, and home use, the competitive gameplay provides repeated emotion recognition practice kids love.
What’s included?
Included in this resource is:
· 4 bingo game boards with emotion faces on
· 4 bingo game boards with emotion words on
· 12 picture cards
· 12 word cards
· 9 colour cards
Worksheet for children to think about calming strategies and things they can do that can help them feel happy again when they are feeling angry.
Why do you need this?
Teaching children effective calming strategies empowers them to manage their emotions constructively. By learning how to cope with anger in healthy ways, students can regulate their emotions and maintain self-control in challenging situations.
Providing children with tools to calm down and regain happiness promotes peaceful conflict resolution. When students feel angry, they can use these strategies to de-escalate conflicts, communicate calmly, and resolve disagreements without resorting to aggression or escalation.
How and when might you use this?
This could be used in a variety of ways:
· Individual or small group work on anger management and emotional regulation.
· During early morning work to start the day by reflecting on emotional well-being and planning strategies for if they become angry during the day.
· During PSHE lessons focused on self-awareness, self-management and good decision making.
· During counselling sessions or interventions targeting anger management.
· For home-learning so that children can complete with parental guidance and involvement.
6 worksheets in which children need to read a simple CVC word and then draw a corresponding picture when they have read and understood the word.
Why do you need this?
Engaging in activities where students read a word and then draw a picture encourages the integration of reading and writing skills. Students not only decode the word but also express their comprehension through visual representation. Drawing a picture to represent a word promotes language development by encouraging students to think creatively and express their ideas visually. It helps them expand their vocabulary and reinforce their understanding of CVC words.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations or literacy centers
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
6 PDF worksheets
5 worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and then fill in the missing short vowel sound from the middle of a CVC word.
Why do you need this?
Filling in missing vowel sounds reinforces phonics rules and reading readiness. With cute animals and objects, learners practice deciphering familiar CVC vocabulary. Parents and teachers can use these pages to assess and develop critical vowel comprehension.
How and when might you use this?
Each page displays 10 illustrated words with the vowel missing. Looking at the picture clue, students fill in the blank to complete the word, applying knowledge of short vowel sounds. For example, seeing a picture of a c_t would cue writing an “a” to spell “cat”.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
5 PDF worksheets
2 sets of jigsaws. One showing compound words with words and pictures and one set showing contractions.
Why do you need this?
Compound word jigsaws help expand students’ vocabulary by introducing them to new compound words and reinforcing their understanding of word formation. Engaging with compound word jigsaws supports the development of language skills such as word blending, segmentation, and phonics.
Contractions are common in the English language, and jigsaws provide a hands-on way for students to practice identifying and forming contractions. As students assemble the jigsaw pieces to form contractions, they reinforce spelling patterns and conventions associated with contraction formation.
How and when might you use this?
These jigsaws can be good for:
· Small group work focused on vocabulary development and spelling and phonics skills
· Group work during literacy lessons
· Review and reinforcement after whole class teaching
· Assessment of what has been learned
· Homework to reinforce what has been learned in class
What’s included?
· 30 compound word jigsaws
· 34 contraction word jigsaws
56 Flash cards showing CVC words with corresponding pictures.
Why do you need this?
Flashcards provide a visual aid for teaching phonics by pairing CVC words with corresponding images. Pairing CVC words with pictures helps build students’ vocabulary by providing visual representations of the words. This enhances comprehension and reinforces word-meaning associations.
Flashcards allow students to practice decoding CVC words by sounding out each letter and blending the sounds together to read the word. Repetitive exposure to CVC words through flashcards improves decoding fluency.
How and when might you use this?
Teachers can use the cards for direct instruction, literacy centers, word walls, and reading games.
What’s included?
This set includes 56 printable flash cards with short CVC words like dog, , pet, map etc each paired with colorful illustrations.
Basic counting to 10 worksheets. 8 different worksheets to count the pictures and write the number.
Why do you need this?
Counting objects and writing the corresponding numbers is a fundamental mathematical skill that children need to develop. These worksheets provide structured practice opportunities for students to strengthen their counting skills and reinforce number recognition. Worksheets that require students to count objects and write the corresponding numbers help reinforce the concept of one-to-one correspondence which is foundational for understanding the relationship between numbers and quantities.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During maths lessons as a whole class activity to reinforce counting skills
· During small group activities focussed on counting skills
· As independent practice to complete individually
· As homework assignments
· As a warm up activity at the beginning of a maths lesson to review previously learned counting skills
What’s included?
8 different counting to 10 worksheets with different items to count on each worksheet: crayons, farm animals, vehicles, dinosaurs, insects, zoo animals, fruit and cubes.
This is a maths intervention aimed at young children learning to count and those struggling with math concepts. It will mostly be helpful for children in reception and year 1 however it will also help support children with special needs. It helps teach and secure learning in number recognition, counting and addition and subtraction to 10 as well as patterns and shapes, positional language, grouping and comparisons,
What are the sections included?
Numbers 1-5
Patterns and Shapes
Where is it?
Numbers 6-10
Sorting and Matching
Counting 1-10
Comparing
Adding and Taking Away
This pack is perfect for individual or small group work to help fill gaps in previous learning and secure skills needed for early maths.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art