Teaching Outside the Box

A Sensory path is an obstacle course that helps to build and strengthen children's sensory pathways and connections in the brain. It was originally created to help students who have sensory processing issues. However, it is also used with students who have behavioral and mental health issues such as anxiety and ADHD to assist them with emotion regulation. It can also be used with general education classes that are fidgety and need to burn off some steam or who just need a brain break. Make a hu

These behavior modification/management bracelets are a great tool to use with students displaying inappropriate social skills. These bracelets are constant reminders of the targeted behavior and reward, for easy re-direction. Students receive a sticker when they display the targeted behavior and a reward once they earn 5 stickers. However, depending on the targeted behavior and reward, the teacher and student can determine the amount of stickers needed before receiving the reward. Students shoul

This interactive lapbook will help students identify and increase their coping skills to deal with a variety of social emotional issues. This interactive Lapbook contains unique foldables which will help students: - define a variety of feelings - identify experiences they've had with different feelings - identify people in their lives that can assist them with difficult feelings - learn ways to cope with difficult feelings - develop their own unique ways for coping with a variety of feelings -

This is a new twist on the classic paper game. It is a simple and fun way to incorporate social emotional learning and help students develop their social skills. For many students who have difficulty making friends and/or maintaining friendships, their main challenge, is engaging their peers. During this game, student's take turns asking each other questions followed by a fun activity they can do together like have a staring contest. All you need to construct the social skills Cootie Catcher is

This game is played like the classic "I have, Who Has?" game and includes 23 different feelings and emotions. Foster students social emotional learning with this fun game. Students will learn basic feeling words like sad and angry but also feelings like frustrated and embarrassed. They will also learn the facial and body expression of the feelings from the accompanying images and realize the universal experience of feelings and emotions. Also available in Spanish. The cards are available in eit

Teach your students new coping strategies or review those they already use with this fun I have, who has game. Playing this social/emotional game often will help your students remember the strategies when they need them. There are 18 cards with different coping strategies in full color, some color, and B & W. ❤️ Follow Me to get notified of half off for the first 48 hours on new products! ❤️ ***************************************************************************** Questions? Please email

Help students identify and reinforce their current calming strategies, as well as, help them to learn new strategies! Students are presented with a wide range of social scenarios where they select calming strategies they can use in each scenario. Students will also share when they have felt difficult emotions, how they coped with them, and how they can best cope with them the next time they experience them. The calming strategies cards will assist in identifying strategies that students are alr

This social worker's office decor bundle is perfect for decorating your hallways, bulletin boards, office and door! Perfect for back to school season or an office refresh! This product includes the following 60 pages:Pages 1-10: Calendar months and days to hang on a wall or for a shadow box (Circles). Pages 11-20 Calendar months and days to hang on a wall or for a shadow box (Rectangles). Page 21: 2019 Year-at-a-Glance Pages 22-29: Social Worker door si

These feelings and emotions puzzle cards in Spanish will help ESL students learn the definition and identification of feelings, body language, coping strategies, and positive affirmations related to each feeling. There are 15 different feelings and emotions cards in color and 15 in black and white. The black and white puzzle cards offer a more challenging puzzle, perfect for older students. The feelings included are the following: -Enojado/a (Angry) -Asustado/a (Scared) -Confudido/a (Confused

Foster students social emotional learning with these fun games. They are perfect played in succession as they become more and more challenging. This bundle includes the following products: 1. Emotions- I Have, Who Has Game Includes 23 different feelings and emotions. Students will learn feelings identification. 2. Feelings & Emotions Definitions- I Have, Who Has Game Includes 24 different feelings and emotions. Students learn feelings identification and definitions; matching the feeling/emotion

This Spanish colors game is played like the classic "I have, Who Has?" game and includes the pronunciation of each color. There are a total of 19 colors including colors like silver, fuchsia, and navy blue! The cards are available in either color or with a B & W background. The color names in the cards with the B & W background remain the same to assist with color recognition. I hope your students enjoy this game and learning colors in Spanish as much as I enjoyed making it. ❤️ Follow Me to get

Help your students monitor and regulate their feelings and emotions throughout the school day with these convenient desk plates! Students will identify how they're feeling by moving a slider along the plate. They can also choose a calming strategy that will assist them with emotion regulation by moving another slider along the plate. In addition, each plate also has 3 separate mindfulness techniques that students can practice right from their desks. Use with individual students, a small group, o

This School Psychologist's office decor bundle is perfect for decorating your hallways, bulletin boards, office and door! Perfect for back to school season or an office refresh! This product includes the following 64 pages:Pages 1-10: Calendar months and days to hang on a wall or for a shadow box (Circles). Pages 11-20 Calendar months and days to hang on a wall or for a shadow box (Rectangles). Page 21: 2019 Year-at-a-Glance Pages 22-30: School Psychologist door sign (each letter in "school psyc

Improve classroom management by helping your students identify and remember calming strategies they can use when experiencing difficult feelings or situations. Students will learn about and practice calming strategies with the scoot game and the calming strategies mini book. You can also help your students remember their strategies by attaching tags to a necklace or key ring and displaying the calming strategies banner in your classroom. ❤️ Follow Me to get notified of half off for the first 48

These tags are a great reminder for students of calming strategies they can use when experiencing difficult feelings or situations. They can be displayed on necklaces, key rings, or in my Calming Strategies Tags Mini Book. You might also like my: Calming Strategies BannerCalming Strategies Scoot Game❤️ Follow Me to get notified of half off for the first 48 hours on new products! ❤️ ***************************************************************************** Questions? Please email me at teac

These worksheets will give your students a thorough understanding of 14 different feelings and emotions in Spanish. Included in each worksheet are the following feelings and emotions: angry, confused, embarrassed, sad, shocked, scared, shy, worried, disappointed, frustrated, bored, jealous, anxious, and depressed. Each worksheet includes the following sections for each of the feelings: -Definition -Feeling identification in others -Feeling identification in self -Body signals -Degree of feelin

Improve classroom management by displaying this colorful calming strategies banner! It's a constant reminder of calming strategies students can use when experiencing difficult feelings or situations. There are 26 different calming strategies pennants in color and in black/white. Simply laminate, cut-out, hole punch, attach to ribbon, and hang! You might also like my: Calming Strategies TagsCalming Strategies Scoot Game❤️ Follow Me to get notified of half off for the first 48 hours on new produc

Improve classroom management by improving your students' calming strategies! This Calming Strategies Scoot Game will assist in reinforcing strategies that students may already be using as well as teaches them new strategies. There are 26 different calming strategies cards which can be used as a scoot with a whole class, a small group, or to reinforce and remind students of different strategies, when needed. What's included: -26 different calming strategies cards in color and black/white. -2 di

This School Counselor's office decor bundle is perfect for decorating your hallways, bulletin boards, office and door! Perfect for back to school season or an office refresh! This product includes the following 62 pages:Pages 1-10: Calendar months and days to hang on a wall or for a shadow box (Circles). Pages 11-20 Calendar months and days to hang on a wall or for a shadow box (Rectangles). Page 21: 2019 Year-at-a-Glance Pages 22-29: School Counselor door sign (each letter in "school counselor"

Don't have the time or space to create a sensory path at your school? You can still give your students the same sensory experience with these icosahedrons! Use one with your whole class/small group or make one for each of your students. These icosahedrons have 20 sides with different movements and activities that will help strengthen sensory pathways in your students. The movements include things like spinning, hopping, jumping and balancing. In addition, there are yoga poses and mindfulness pro