How to Control Your Emotions

This dry erase flip book is a great tool for any classroom. Students can independently use this book to manage and cope with a variety of emotions. It's also a great teaching tool for teaching social-emotional learning concepts. Each flip book contains 8 emotion tabs, making it easy for children to use on their own. It is also laminated and intended to be used with dry erase markers so that it can be used repeatedly. They also contain real photos of people so children can look at their expressions and truly understand their emotions. Use as a teaching tool and then allow your child or students to access the flip book when necessary. It is great that they come in a set of 2 for when you have multiple students or children that need to access it at the same time.

• 8 TABBED SECTIONS: This dry erase flip book contains 8 emotion tabs, making it easy for children to use on their own
  
• REUSABLE: This product is laminated and intended to be used with dry erase markers, so that it can be used repeatedly
  
• IMPORTANT SKILLS: Coping with and understanding feelings are very important skills for children to learn
  
• PHOTOGRAPHS: Contains real photos of people so children can look at their expressions and truly understand their emotions
  
• GREAT FOR HOME OR SCHOOL USE: Use this as a teach tool and then allow your child or students to access the flip book when necessary, great to have two in case you have multiple students or children that need to access it at the same time

This well-being log is the perfect place for children, young and old, to explore different aspects of social-emotional learning. A variety of topics are included and allow children to learn and grow through responding to scenarios and other prompts.

WHAT YOU GET: Twelve logs with twenty-four pages of content that cover a wide range of social-emotional skills and practices.

SKILLS COVERED: These logs cover several topics including self-awareness, social awareness, goal setting, peer pressure, mindfulness, positive self-talk and more.

GOOD FOR YOUNG AND OLD: The ages that will find the most use of this log are children aged six and older. There are places in the log to write responses to difference scenarios as well as places to reflect and log their feelings.

KEEP AND REFLECT: When your child is finished with these logs, put them away for a year or two and revisit the topics and what was written to see how your child has grown and changed. It is a great time to reflect on what skills they may still need help with as well.

CREATED BY TEACHERS: These logs were created by the teacher product developers at Really Good Stuff, a leader in the educational product market for nearly thirty years.

These logs are a must have for children six and older. The topics covered and necessary and timely. They are a great place to learn, reflect and respond to scenarios, and to log feelings and emotions. When children are given the knowledge and practice to deal with these social-emotional topics, they will grow to be more mentally healthy, and will be able to respond better to the outside world.

Social-Emotional Learning Discussion Cards that touch on all topics. Use the cards individually with a student or as a larger conversation with a group. This is a great interactive activity for parents and children to do together.

• SEL CONVERSATION CARDS: These conversation cards guide and encourage adults to work with kids on their social-emotional skills. Color-coded by topic, the cards prompt meaningful discussions about how to be kind, cope with difficulties, set and strive for goals, treat other people with respect, and more.
  
• EMPATHY DISCUSSION CARDS: Teach the Power of Empathy! Use these cards to discuss what empathy is, how to handle emotional upsets in others, and how to recognize people's feelings and emotional states through facial expressions and environment. The smaller cards work well for small groups, the larger photo cards are good for whole-class discussions.
  
• SOCIAL SKILLS DISCUSSION CARDS: Teach Kids How to Deal with Daily Challenges! These cards describe real-life situations and scenarios that kids/ students commonly face during the school day and ask students how the situation makes them feel and how they would or should handle it. A powerful social-emotional tool!
  
• MINDFULNESS ACTIVITY CARDS: Provide Daily Prompts for Mindful Thinking Activities. Engage students in Mindful Thinking activities to support self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, decision making, and relationship skills.
  
• WHEN I AM FRUSTRATED CARDS SET: Ideas for How to Handle Frustration! When kids encounter frustration, give them these cards with choices for how to deal with the situation. You decide which cards to offer. Includes blanks for your own ideas.
  
• TAKE A MINDFUL MINUTE PHOTO CARDS: Mindfulness Techniques! Give your child or student ways to be more mindful with these mini posters focusing on the five senses and how to stay attuned to your surroundings. Each one has easy-to-follow steps on the back.

Create a special "cool-down" spot in your classroom where students can regroup, gather themselves, and refocus when they've had a challenging moment.

• Visual Reminders: Keep the solution in focus when kids get off track. They can calm down, cope, reset, and get back to work.
  
• Help Kids Self-Manage: Well-designed posters let kids figure out what is going on with them physically and emotionally, and regain self-control.
  
• Multipurpose: Teachers can put these posters up in a central reset spot, use them for teaching prompts, or hand them out individually!
  
• Teaches Social-Emotional Learning: Students can stop, name their feeling, sit down, take a deep breath, choose a calm-down strategy, and then self-assess.
  
• Aligns With Other Calm-Down Tools: Use posters in conjunction with other calm-down tools to create an oasis of calm in your classroom.
  
• Comes With Reproducibles: The backs of three posters display reproducibles to copy and use in your classroom. Directions for use are included.When emotions run high, these calm-promoting posters help your students reset and regain their composure!

Start students at the green level on the pocket chart each day and simply move their clothespins up or down depending on their behavior. Invite students to follow their progress at their desks with their own personal mini trackers.