Feeling check in

The Feeling Feather offers a fun structure for teachers, counselors or social workers to check in with students about how they are feeling regarding various aspects of their lives. Broad categories spark conversation with room for kids or adults to add notes or use multiple colors in each section for complex emotions. You can get this resource at a discount along with several other get-to-know-you activities in my Individual and Group Counseling Activities Bundle!

Expressing your emotions and putting your feelings into words can be challenging for kids. This lesson is a simple daily check in to see how your students are doing and feeling. Using a feel wheel, students can indicate how they are doing at that moment or that day without having to say a word.

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Social Emotional Learning is at the heart of what I teach my students. I believe the key to reaching our most challenging students is through fostering personal connections. These check in and check out forms are used daily in my classroom. Can be completed in a small group or 1 on 1. By connecting with your students and being proactive about finding out information about how they are feeling, so many behaviors and challenges can be avoided. This resource includes a morning check in sheet…

In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), thoughts, feelings, and emotions are not always reliable indicators of reality — they come and go depending on our beliefs, assumptions, and interpretations of events. Avoiding our emotions prolongs their impact, and checking the facts can help address emotional dysregulation. The DBT Check The Facts PDF handout starts by introducing “checking the facts” as an emotion regulation technique. Next, it presents six questions clients can ask themselves, such…

Inside out emotions worksheet Digital download only

A solid morning routine is key to a classroom that runs smoothly for the rest of the day. No matter how experienced you are, there's a good chance your

I don't know about you, but my kids love the Disney Pixar movie Inside Out. It is such a fun story, and I really enjoyed the whole concept of "which emotion is at the control panel right now?" It has become more than just a fun movie for our family, too, as we've begun helping our kids identify their emotions using the characters Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, Anger, and Surprise (Bing Bong!). One way we've been doing this is through a chart I've created. I found this image from lifehacker.com…