Kindergarten Character Education ~ Social Emotional Learning

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This resource contains an amazing array of activities and inspiration to help build a kind and caring classroom culture. 

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) provides a foundation for safe, inclusive and positive learning. It enhances student feelings of self-esteem and increases their ability to succeed in school.

This product includes suggestions of 20 picture books to use in Kindergarten to address social emotional learning topics in your classroom.

Along with the 20 suggested read alouds, there are discussion questions to spark meaningful classroom conversations, and instructions for 20 class community-building activities.

Social Emotional topics addressed include: friendship, kindness, sharing, perseverance, mindfulness and many others.

The book suggestions included are:

Goodbye, Friend, Hello, Friend! (Doerrfeld, C.)

Puppy in my Head (Gravel, E.)

It’s Not All Rainbows (vonInnerebner, J.)

In My Mosque (Yuksel, M.O.)

Not Me (Gravel, E.)

Finding Kindness (Underwood, D.)

The Power of Yet (Cocca-Leffler, M.)

I am a Peaceful Goldfish (Chaim, S.)

Swing (Hall, M.)

Big Feelings (Penfold, A.)

Stick and Stone (Ferry, B.)

Theo’s Mood (Cocca-Leffler, M.)

Nope, Never, Not for Me! (Cotterill, S.)

Room on our Rock (Temple, K. & J.)

I’m Sticking With You (Prasadam-Halls, S.)

Should I Share my Ice Cream? (Willems, M.)

Play with Me! (Lee, M.)

Groovy Joe (Ice Cream and Dinosaurs (Litwin, E.)

How to Apologize (LaRochelle, D.)

Miles McHale Tattletale (Jones, C.)