This ‘Finish the Emoji’ resource will combine emotional literacy with symmetry and art. There are full page mats where children need to finish the emoji face and then name the emotion or to take it a bit further there are worksheets with prompts. 14 emotions are covered with this resource.
Use this activity in the following ways:
Warm up or icebreaker at the beginning of your sessions
Emotional register at the beginning of your sessions
In numeracy lessons when working on numbers 1-10
With SEN children who need a bit more help with emotions or numbers to 10
In early years classrooms as independent activities
To learn about the 6 emotions included
This pack contains:
6 girl jigsaws numbers 1-5
6 boy jigsaws numbers 1-5
6 girl jigsaws numbers 1-10
6 boy jigsaws numbers 1-10
Mindfulness aims to reduce unpleasant emotions and feelings, help you feel relaxed, and allow space between you and your thoughts; giving you the opportunity to react more calmly. Mindfulness is simply allowing yourself to be in the present moment.
This pack of resources is perfect for mindful time, with a bonus of creating something unique and beautiful (perfect for decorating a Christmas Card). This will really help self-esteem too. It FEELS amazing to create something unique.
Not only is it perfect for ELSA sessions but also for whole classes especially around Christmas time when children need a little bit of calm time.
Included in the pack are *10 templates *Pattern sheet and practice sheet *Instructions
There are 21 different emotions in the pack. One set with ‘I feel’ and just the face and another set with ‘I feel’, the face and a suggested emotion/feeling.
Wally Worry the worry monster is for helping children to offload their worries.
Included in the pack: *Wally Worry banner, *Wally Worry Monster(with writing, without writing and with a white label for writing with a whiteboard pen), *Wally Worry slips for children to fill in *Pocket template for catching the worries(2 colours).
Although the monster can be used with the pocket another way would be to laminate and cut along the curved line on his tummy. Stick something at the back of him to catch the worries.
Wally Worry is meant for printing on A3 paper but you could make it bigger or smaller depending on your needs. We recommend Adobe Reader for opening our PDFs as this gives you some lovely print options. You can print as a poster and make him pretty huge if you want to and alternatively for one child you could just print him on A4 paper.
These growth mindset support cards can be used to help encourage a growth mindset in the classroom. They could be printed onto card and given to children to show their efforts are being recognised by the Teacher/TA/ ELSA. There are 20 cards – 4 to an A4 sheet so a handy size to hold. If you want them bigger then just print on A3.
20 emotions covered in this resource pack.
Simple folds make this unique and exciting for children.
Children will learn to identify the facial expression, what makes them feel that emotion, physical signs of the emotion and synonyms of the emotion.
A set of 15 Christmas puzzles. All you need is a die to play.
10 puzzles have questions on the back so you have 60 questions about Christmas and 5 puzzles are blank on the back so you can create your own questions.
These are great for warm ups or filling in a few minutes during the Christmas activities. If you group a few puzzles together then you could play as a group and children could try and make a puzzle each. There could be co-operation skills with trading pieces with each other to make their puzzles.
A lovely Christmas emotions bingo for the run up to Christmas. Pupils will learn to recognise 9 different emotions.
Included in the pack are:
*9 bingo boards, *calling cards *emotional register slips
This is a booklet which could be used with a child who has lost a pet. It is the one thing that I have dealt with many times in my role as ELSA. It is probably the first time the child has dealt with death and they are understandably very upset. It is really important that you get permission from their family before working on bereavement with a child. Most parents are very happy for you to help their child come to terms with their loss.
I have included ‘The Rainbow Bridge’ poem which is a lovely poem to discuss with the child. I know it gives me comfort with the loss of my pet cat.
This is the Building Brick lettering for display pack.
This resource contains:
Capital letters
Small letters
Numbers to 10
basic punctuation
5 emotion faces – cut out and stick up around your lettering
This story is suitable for working with children who steal.
It includes:
A story to read to the child and discuss. Repeat the story several times to ensure the key points are being understood.
Prompt cards to print, laminate and put on a keyring for taking away with them. They could have a copy for the classroom and one for home.
A target sheet so that the child can colour a star if they manage to stop themselves from stealing
A certificate for when they have reached their target.
12 Question cards on the story to ensure the child understands what is being asked of them.
Worksheets on the key points of the story to ensure understanding.
Assess understanding. See if the child really understands stealing with these simple scenarios
14 foldables for emotions work. Instructions on how to make up are in the files. Girl or Boy provided where necessary. Make emotions work more interesting. Perfect for ELSAS, Teaching Assistants, Learning Mentors or working one to one with children with social or emotional problems.
Stick the label onto a container or box. Pop the cookies into the container and invite children to pick a cookie and answer the question.
This resource will help raise children's self-esteem. Could be used whole class, groups or individually.
This resource is ideal for working one to one with a child. The red light is the negative emotion such as anger, frustration, fear, worry, sad and upset. The green light is the positive emotion such as happy, chilled, content, ok, calm, and confident. The amber/yellow light is all the things the child can do to help get from the red light to the green light. These are the tools.
Make sure you go through the resource with the child and decide which ‘tools’ they need to use or try.
Print and laminate this resource, Cut out the cards and keep in a little zip folder, Use either velcro or blu tak to stick the cards onto the base board.
If you need the cards to be bigger just print all of it onto A3 paper and laminate.
The Mind Monsters Fan Pack is a perfect resource for especially young children to identify their feelings. It is based on the 6 basic emotions of happy, sad, angry, scared, disgusted and surprised. It is also suitable for children with SEN and even older children will love the characters.
There are 3 levels of fans.
The first one just shows the monster on its own for children to relate to the face and facial expression.
The second one shows the name of the Monster – Angry Adam, Sad Simon, Surprised Sam, Happy Hannah, Scared Sophie and Disgusted Doug. This will help children to label the emotion by the name and the expression.
The third level has a scale of 1-5 for children to begin to scale their emotions. How sad are they? Are they a tiny bit sad or very very sad?
There are more Mind Monster resources, please check my store.
Here are a set of 20 Christmas/Winter themed Mindful Mandalas with some lovely quotes to discuss. Pupils can enjoy the mindfulness of colouring along with chat about the quote.
Print as a booklet or just print what you need. You could also blow them up quite large due to the excellent image quality so if you want to do a group colouring you could do.
This is a lovely activity to do with children to discuss separation or divorce. The chances are that the child spends time in both mum’s house and dad’s house. Included in this pack are house templates which can be printed onto A3 or A4 card and made up with the child. This is a lovely, visual and hands on activity where the child can write or draw things and put them in the relevant house.
Included in the pack:
2 House templates with bricks
2 House templates blank
30 question prompts
A variety of templates for writing or drawing.