FREE MISC. LESSON - "Social Skills Sampler Freebie"

by Kathy Babineau
Grades K-5

Social Skills Sampler Freebie

This Social Skills Sampler Freebie contains a variety of social skill cards that are fun, and target areas that are challenging for many of our students with social pragmatic difficulties: body language, facial expression, identifying feelings, problem solving and role-playing. 

To use these cards, simply print, laminate (if desired) and cut apart. These are fun to use in small groups, and can even be used with whole classes during morning meeting, circle time, or during transitions. 

I hope you enjoy this activity and find it helpful for you and your students.

Kathy Babineau

If you like this product, you may also like some of these other social skills products:

Social Skills Bundle

Holiday Social Skills Bundle

Super Problem Solvers

Social Skills For Teenagers

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Social Skill Activity Cards

by Kathy Babineau
Grades 1-5

Social Skill Activity Cards

Be silly and have some fun as you help your students to become better nonverbal communicators! Many kids with social language weaknesses have difficulty using and interpreting facial expressions and body language correctly. In this fun activity, kids will get practice making faces to convey emotions, using their bodies to "pretend" to be doing activities, and role playing situations using tone of voice, body language and facial expressions. 

This kit contains:

*12 "Make a Face" Cards

*28 "Pretend" Cards

*16 "Role Play" Cards

These are created in Black/White for easy printing!

Thanks so much for checking out this product! 

If you like this, you may also like:

Social and Safety Skill Discussion Cards

Role Playing Cards

Social Skills for Teenagers

Act It Out

Super Problem Solvers

Social Skills Bundle

Social Skills All Year

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Social Skills All Year

by Kathy Babineau
Grades KG-6

Social Skills All Year

This kit contains 240 cards covering seasonal scenarios and topics. For each month of the year (including summer months), there are 4 Topic Talker cards, 4 Role Playing cards, 4 Facial Expression/Body Language cards, 4 Problem Solver cards, and 4 Perspective Taker cards, for a total of 20 cards for each month of the year. Cards are simply marked with the month of the year, but they can also be mixed and matched throughout the year if you would rather not focus on themes. 

The Topic Talker Cards offer suggested topics of conversation, many of which are related to timely topics and holidays. Some other generic school based topics have been included in order to be sensitive to students who may not observe particular holidays. These topic talker cards are helpful for students who are trying to work to maintain on-topic exchanges with peers, addressing attention to conversation and even general expressive and receptive language. 

The Role Playing cards also address many timely topics. When using the Role Playing cards, I like to have multiple teams role play the same scenes, because there may be several correct ways to “act out” the situation. It is also fun sometimes to role play the situation in an inappropriate way and then discuss why it may be hurtful or inappropriate or offensive. Be sure to brainstorm and discuss how body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice and word choice are all important to communication. 

The Facial Expression/Body Language cards are fun to use to think about and practice ways that we communicate with our faces and our bodies. 

The Problem Solver cards offer students opportunities to think about social situations, analyze the problem and generate practical solutions. There is not always just one correct answer to these problems. 

The Perspective Taker cards encourage students to put themselves in a situation or in someone else’s shoes and decide how they might feel. 

To use this kit, simply print out all sheets and then cut apart and laminate (optional) the cards, and you are good to go! They are all in black and white (except the cover page) to go easy on the color copying budget. 

I hope you like this and find it helpful when working with your students!

Kathy Babineau

Here are a few other social skills products you may like

Super Problem Solvers

Social Skills for Teenagers

Social and Safety Skill Question/Discussion Cards

So Much to Be Thankful For

By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern at The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs II.

I can remember my grandmother sitting in her big rocking chair that was placed in her favorite spot, next to a picture window where she kept all of her plants. I would sit on her lap and she would sing about the beautiful autumn leaves dancing to the ground in their colorful dresses. I can’t remember the tune or the words, but that wonderful memory has always been vivid in my mind. as if it were yesterday. I’m so thankful for this experience. 

I can remember standing on the front porch waiting for my mom to take me shopping downtown. I loved to shop with her. We used to go to a store called Eli Moore, they had everything that a little girl could want. First stop was the shoe department, and I’d get my black patent leather shoes, next we’d go to the clothes department. I was so spoiled back then, as an only child, I was showered with beautiful things to wear and great toys. Shopping done, we’d go to this café for lunch and a yummy desert. My mom passed on when I was 15 so these moments mean so much for me and I’m thankful for the short time that I was able to spend with her.

I have so many things to be thankful for, a wonderful husband, my Siberian Husky, friends and family who love me. We’re healthy, other than some aches and pains. Our house is in the woods and it is our own little paradise. I can’t think of anything else that I need, other than a few million dollars, lol!

As a teacher, I feel it’s part of my responsibility to help my students think about the good things that they have going, and to be thankful for their blessings. To introduce them to this activity, I tell them the story about my grandmother, and or my mom.  Then I will pass out task cards with Thanksgiving images on them and ask the kids to write down what they’re thankful for and we put them into a decorated Thanksgiving box. They can write as many things as they wish, The Wednesday before Thanksgiving recess. I pass the box around the room and each child, as well as myself, chooses a card and we read what is on it, then try to guess whose card it is and give it to its owner.

I usually end up moved to tears  and so do some of the kids, as this activity is so meaningful to all of us..

Please take a look at my values lesson What Am I Thankful For?

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