Middle School Character Education Posters

Back-to-School Character-Building Bulletin Board BUNDLE: Friendship, Kindness, & Gratitude Character Education Posters and Activities for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade

This bundle includes THREE bulletin board poster sets.

FRIENDSHIP BULLETIN BOARD:

This FRIENDSHIP bulletin board and activities product is perfect for any time of year! It was created for 3rd grade and above (NOTE: the bulletin board can be used in lower grades, but verbiage and vocabulary on the printables are more appropriate for students in 3rd grade and above).

• Use this friendship display on a bulletin board, classroom display, counseling office, or common area in your school.
• There are two choices for each letter in FRIENDSHIP. Review the choices and print the words that will work the best with your class. You can also choose to use the word FRIEND or FRIENDS in lieu of using FRIENDSHIP (perhaps your bulletin board space is limited, for example).
• The size of the letters for the bulletin board (GOOD FRIENDS ARE…) might be too large. You can adjust the size of them when you print. The letters on the image of this product (found on the cover) are printed at 65%.
• You will find a printable for each word choice (20 pages). You will likely only use the worksheets that correspond to the words you chose for your bulletin board or display.
• PLEASE BE AWARE that you may have students who don’t feel like they have friends. Always give your class the option to write about a family member, community member, pet, or other public figure (or someone they’d like to be their friend). If you are able to observe students while they complete the activities, it’s important to keep an eye out for students who appear uncomfortable or upset. Supporting these students might involve talking with them privately or deliberately planning subsequent activities where they can connect and interact with students.

12 DAYS OF KINDNESS BULLETIN BOARD:

This 12 Days of Kindness activity is perfect for any time of year but is particularly timely for Thanksgiving in November, any December holiday, or in February for Valentine's Day. It can be used for any grade level.

• Use these posters on a bulletin board, classroom display, counseling office, or common area in your school.
• Each student should complete four acts of kindness in each of the three categories during the course of 12 days OR you can simply use the letters that say “KINDNESS CHALLENGE” and ask students to complete as many acts of kindness as they possibly can.
• There is a page that students can use to track their progress towards 12 acts of kindness. Each column should have four ripped off papers from the kindness posters when the student has completed their 12 acts of kindness challenge. You may choose NOT to use this tracker if you want students to complete more than 12 acts of kindness.
• Many of these activities will need to be completed outside of school. This is PERFECT for homework in the month of December for the holidays or in February around Valentine’s Day. Class time can be used for discussing the acts of kindness and processing their feelings and experiences as they face and complete each act of kindness.
• Offer additional copies of the 12 Days of Kindness if students choose to go above and beyond the 12 days.
• It is best for students to rip ONE ACT OF KINDNESS AT A TIME (one for each of the 12 days). There are TEN acts of kindness per category (kindness to self, kindness to others, and kindness to earth) for a total of 30 acts of kindness.
• If students ALREADY engage in an activity or suggestion, encourage them to find something different. For example, you may have students who already use reusable water bottles every single day. They would naturally need to choose a different act of kindness in that category. The idea is to challenge themselves to do something new.
• Please note that you can CHOOSE THE TITLE for your bulletin board! Here are the choices included:
  • 12 DAYS OF KINDNESS
  • KINDNESS CHALLENGE
  • 12 DAYS OF KINDNESS CHALLENGE

GRATITUDE CHALLENGE BULLETIN BOARD:

This gratitude challenge activity is perfect for any time of year, but is particularly timely for Thanksgiving in November and/or any December holiday. It can be used for any grade level.

Research shows that expressing gratitude has a positive effect on mood, peer relationships, and an overall higher quality of life. Gratitude ignites the parasympathetic nervous system, which leads to feelings of calmness. Expressing gratitude releases dopamine and serotonin, which also results in a more pleasurable state of mind.

This file contains bulletin board letters that spell "GRATITUDE CHALLENGE" as well as letter to spell "RIP-N-RECOGNIZE" (these are optional for the bulletin board), 20 RIP-N-RECOGNIZE Gratitude Challenge posters in full color and black and white, teacher tips, a gratitude challenge points page, and letter writing templates.

• Use these posters on a bulletin board, classroom display, counseling office, or common area in your school.
• Set a goal for students to reach, but issue a “challenge” for students to go above and beyond the recommended goal. Each challenge (poster) is worth TWO points. Students get one point for writing the letter and an additional point for sending or delivering the letter/note. Some posters DO REQUIRE students to research an address. NOTE: The second point on any given challenge CANNOT be earned until the letter is dropped off at the post office or delivered in person.
• You will find a challenge sheet for students to keep track of their points. You can structure the challenge in whatever way works best for your class. You can ask students to RIP-N-RECOGNIZE as an early finisher activity, a bell ringer activity, for a gratitude exercise in Social Studies, or as a writing activity during your ELA block.
• You may choose NOT to use the points as an incentive and instead teach students that expressing gratitude is an inherently rewarding experience all by itself.
• Each challenge sheet has enough space for 5 challenges. Simply offer copies of the same sheet for students who complete more than 5 letters/notes.
• It is best for students to rip ONE CHALLENGE AT A TIME. Their next challenge can’t be “ripped” until they finish the first challenge they chose. This will eliminate issues with students ripping too many challenges at a time, losing the little ripped notes, and “biting off more than they can chew”.
• There are 20 challenge options for students. Some challenges might not work for some students. Honor and respect a student’s choice NOT to do challenges that don’t work for their life circumstances. For example, you might have students who don’t know any other family members outside their immediate home, students who are in a foster situation, or students who are homeless. Requiring students to complete ALL the challenges will surely put some students in a vulnerable position and that is not the goal of this activity.

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

These products include a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

Are you in charge of the School News? Have you ever wondered if your news program can be more than it is? Follow along our journey as we reimagined our school news and changed things for the better.

Included:

• How We Reimagined the Morning News (19 pages) - Step-by-step accounting of our process to move from uploaded video news to a 15-30 minutes news show every single day. Includes links to products, videos, sample documents and posters, management techniques, and segment ideas.
• Segment Ideas (PowerPoint) printables for creating a bulletin board display of segment ideas.
• News Crew Posters (PowerPoint) - two different full size poster images that we use in our news room. One explains the different jobs. The other one keeps track of students that are out of the newsroom.
• Passes (PowerPoint) - editable PowerPoint with our news crew passes allow for early entry to the news room
• News Crew Job Assignments (PowerPoint) - Individual printouts for each of the news crew jobs.

Social-Emotional Learning Activities BUNDLE: Self-Regulation, Self-Care, and Conflict Resolution Corners

This social-emotional activities bundle includes THREE corners to help your students with self-regulation, self-esteem, and relationship building.

You will find a conflict resolution corner, 2 choices for a calm down corner (one file includes people clip art and the other file includes dot dudes clip art), and a self-care corner.

***NOTE: THIS BUNDLE IS MORE DISCOUNTED BECAUSE YOU WILL LIKELY ONLY USE ONE OF THE TWO COOL DOWN CORNERS.

If you're looking for the bundle for lower elementary, please click HERE: Just click here!

The descriptions for this 3rd-6th grade SEL Corner Bundle are as follows:

CONFLICT RESOLUTION CORNER:

This conflict resolution corner outlines STEP-BY-STEP instructions for helping students solve conflicts with each another.  You'll find that it looks like a flowchart when it's displayed in your classroom.

Don't have a corner or bulletin board space?  That's okay!  You will also find smaller versions of the step-by-step flowchart that students can glue into a notebook.

Are your students learning online?  No worries!  We've got you covered with a digital version in Google Forms.  Students will be taken through a series of questions to help them resolve the conflict.

This social-emotional learning file includes the following:

• an image of a sample conflict resolution corner already set up
• letters for the title of the corner (Conflict Resolution Corner...)
• title poster (Identify Conflict: What is my conflict?)
• flowchart questions to determine the next steps for students
• arrows and other images (lightbulbs, yes/no cards) to embellish your conflict resolution corner
• posters with steps to follow when resolving a conflict
• a feelings poster
• conflict resolution tips for students (1 page)
• posters for the following:  I-Messages, Listening & Checking for Understanding, Apologizing, and Accepting an Apology
• small versions of every poster/card
• black-and-white versions of every page

This file was created for upper elementary students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade.  Using it with younger kids would require a great deal of support (the vocabulary used in the resource is above a primary level).

COOL DOWN CORNER (this bundle includes TWO options for this file):

This cool down corner was designed to help students regulate their emotions.  Teaching students to be more mindful and to develop self-control has never been more important.

You will find everything you need to create a safe space for students to decompress and calm down in a comfortable, supportive setting.

PLEASE NOTE: You have access to TWO FILES for a calm down corner. One file shows dot dudes clip art and the other file shows kid clip art. Simply choose ONE of the files!

This file includes:

• a quick and handy one page guide with steps to follow to cool down
• a cool down recording sheet to reflect on shifts in mood and emotion
• half-size poster sheets with step-by-step instructions for calming down
• feelings poster
• feelings cards (bind them with a binder ring, if you choose)
• cool down strategies poster
• 15 individual posters for cool down strategies
• card sized cool down strategies (use a binder ring, if you choose)
• yoga cards poses
• cool down affirmations (1 page)
• cool down printable resources (that coincide with a few of the strategies posters)
• black and white versions of all pages

SELF-CARE CORNER:

This self-care corner was created to help students navigate their self-esteem and self-image. Students will learn how to take care of themselves and make healthy choices. If there was ever a need for this type of activity, it is NOW!

You will find everything you need to create a safe space for students to work on self-care.

This file includes:

• a self-care corner sample image
• bulletin board letters (Self-Care Corner...)
• 10 posters for the self-care corner that outline an activity for students
• 16 speech bubbles with positive affirmations that you can place around a mirror
• 9 printable worksheets that coincide with 9 of the posters
• black-and-white versions of the posters
• digital instructions and link for Google Slides

This file was created for upper elementary students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade.  Using it with younger kids would require a great deal of support (the vocabulary used in the resource is above a primary level).

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no-prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet. The digital option is in GOOGLE SLIDES OR GOOGLE FORMS.

Thank you for taking the time to check out this self-care activities file. Please direct questions to me PRIOR to purchasing this product.

You may also be interested in these posters:

• GROWTH MINDSET AFFIRMATIONS

You may also be interested in these corners:

• Conflict Resolution Corner for 1st-2nd graders
• Calm Down Corner for 1st-2nd-graders (Dot Dudes Clipart)
• Calm Down Corner for 1st-2nd graders (People Clipart)
• Self Care Corner for 1st-2nd graders

Need growth mindset bell ringers? Choose your grade here:

• GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for Kinder-1st Grade
• GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 2ND-3RD Grade
• GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 4th Grade and Up

Welcome to our Mindfulness Bundle! This bundle is designed to help teachers incorporate mindfulness practices into their classrooms and their students' daily lives.

The bundle includes a variety of resources such as guided meditations, breathing exercises, mindful movement activities, and mindfulness worksheets that are suitable for elementary school students.

Our goal is to provide teachers with the tools they need to help their students manage stress, build resilience, and develop a greater sense of self-awareness and compassion.

By incorporating mindfulness into your classroom, you can create a more calm and positive learning environment that supports the well-being of your students.

Resource Includes:

• 7 Mindful Guided Meditation Scripts
• 18 Mindful Coloring Pages
• 20 Calming Cards/Brain Breaks
• 24 Mindfulness Coloring Bookmarks
• 2 Mindfulness Tear Off Posters for the classroom
• 1 Mindfulness Word Search
• Breathing Tracing Cards
• 10 Mindful Breathing Coloring Posters
• Affirmation Coloring Mandalas

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Growth Mindset Bundle

Positive Affirmations Bingo / Self-Esteem Bingo Lesson Plan

Use:

For personal and teaching purposes only.

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