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[TEMPLATE]�SEL Choice Board

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Utilize this user-friendly SEL Choice Board – courtesy of our friends at Sunnyvale School District – to support students during Morning Meeting, Closing Circle or Asynchronous Learning Time!

Sample Welcome Letter

Hello Staff,

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Thank you for stopping by! Here you will find a choice board full of meaningful activities that focus on specific SEL skills for Morning Meeting, Closing Circle, or Asynchronous time for Elementary and Middle School students.

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Click here to access more information on how to use this choice board, here.

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Thank you and please contact us with any questions!

How to Use the Choice Board

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1. If you are new to SEL Choice Boards, watch this quick tour with Rachel Bacosa, Social-Emotional Learning Instructional Coach at Sunnyvale School District.�
2. Choose SEL activities from the choice board that you see a need for.�
3. Assign the activities to your class. �
4. Most of all, make this work for you and your class community!

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Table of Contents

Gratitude Jar

Relationship Skills

Help Someone at Home

Relationship Skills

Responsible Decision Making

Self-Awareness

Self-Awareness

Gratitude Wall

5-4-3-2-1

Do Something You Love

Social Awareness

Self-Awareness

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

I am Human

Social Awareness

How to Fill A Bucket

Self-Awareness

3 Good Things

Relationship Skills

Celebrate a Family Member

Self-Management

Get Moving

Self-Management

Breathing Exercises

Elementary

Middle

Relationship Skills

Make a Gratitude Jar ✌

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• Decorate any jar and place it in a common place with pen and papers.

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• Write what you’re grateful for and put in the jar.

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• At the end of the week, read all the gratitudes before or after dinner with your family.

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Relationship Skills

Make a Gratitude Wall 👍

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Make a poster with the word Gratitude on it. With your family, each day, put up sticky notes on the poster of why you are each grateful.

Relationship Skills

Today, I would like to talk about _____. _____is a ______ and ______ family member. _____always encourages me by ______ . I am happy that _______ is a part of my family!

Celebrate a Family Member 👏

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Think of a family member you want celebrate in this moment!

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Share with your teacher and classmates:

1. Your family member’s name.
2. What you appreciate about them.
3. Why you are happy to be in their family.

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Responsible Decision Making

Help Someone in Your Family 👐

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Show responsibility & kindness to

someone by helping them at home.

Tell them what you appreciate about them. Take a picture of what you did. Tell your teacher and classmates how it felt to help someone other than yourself.

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Self-Awareness

5-4-3-2-1 💨

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Practice being aware of your emotions and calming down by doing the activity. Write down:

• 5 things you see
• 4 things you feel
• 3 things you hear
• 2 things you smell
• 1 thing you taste or love about yourself

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Self-Awareness

3 Good Things 😁

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Use the list and pick 3 good things to tell your teacher and classmates some good news that is happening in your life.

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• Tell us what emotions you felt on the way to our virtual or hybrid school today and why you felt that way.
• Tell us something someone did for you this week that made you feel loved.
• Name one thing or situation that makes you feel nervous. Why?
• What part of your day do you feel most excited about? Why?
• Name something unique about you and why you like that about yourself.
• Describe something you do at home that makes you feel proud.
• What makes you unique from other people in your family?
• Tell one thing you were not good at last year but you have gotten better at doing this year.
• Tell us about a time you felt lucky.
• Describe a time you struggled to be good at something and how that made you feel.

Good News List 👇

Self-Awareness

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt 💫

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Find something I am grateful for that…

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1. Makes me happy
2. Is my favorite color
3. I enjoy eating
4. Brings me a good memory
5. Makes me feel strong
6. Is my favorite place to rest
7. Makes a beautiful sound
8. I love doing on my own
9. Reminds me that I am loved

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Share your favorites and why you are grateful for them with your teacher and classmates.

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Self-Awareness

Do Something You Love 💛

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1. Think of an activity you love - reading, bike riding, creating art, baking, etc...
2. Do that activity! but, take a picture of yourself doing the activity.
3. Tell your teacher and classmates about:
1. Your activity
2. Why you love it
3. How you feel while doing the activity

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Social-Awareness

I am Human 💜

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1. Read I am Human.
2. Think, then list all the things that make you an empathetic person.
3. Pick 1 way you show empathy and draw/design you being that empathetic person.
4. Share your product with your teacher and classmates.

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Social-Awareness

How to Fill a Bucket 💦

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1. Read How to Fill a Bucket.
2. Think about someone who needs their bucket filled.
3. List all the ways you plan to fill that person’s bucket.
4. Share with your teacher and classmates who’s bucket you filled and how you did it.

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The Dance Freeze Song

Trolls: Can’t Stop the Feeling

Go Bananas

Side Hustle kidDING! and DO

Moose Fabio Don't Wear No Socks

Stay on the Sunny Side

Self-Management: Breaks to Get Up & Moving

Moosemallow Dash

Fresh Start Fitness

Take this moment to get moving! Try one of these videos to move your body and give your brain a break! Get your family in on the fun!

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Self-Management/Calming Down with Breaths

Take this moment to calm down. Try one of these videos to destress, re-focus, and give your brain a break! Get your family to calm down with you.

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Triangle Breathing

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Rainbow Breath

Melting

Bee Breath

Square Breath

STAR Breath & Count Down to Calm

Elementary

Self-Management/Calming Down with Breaths

Take this moment to get moving! Try one of these videos to move your body and give your brain a break! Get your family in on the fun!

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Listening to Music Mindfully

Animal Cams

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Square Breath

Catch Your Breath

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Click Here & Here for More Breathing Activities for Middle School

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Take 5 (Play from 1:00-1:14)

The Guest House Poem & Body Scan

Middle

Monterey Bay’s

Guided Morning MeditOceans

About the Authors

On behalf of the Panorama Education team, we wanted to extend an enormous thank you to Rachel Bacosa and Carla Farrell of Sunnyvale School District for creating this SEL Choice Board and for their willingness to share a customizable version with our community!

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