First Grade SEL

About Grade 1 SEL

Grade 1 social-emotional learning (SEL) (1st grade, ages 6–7) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Understanding Myself (lessons 1–8), Understanding Others (lessons 9–16), Making Good Choices (lessons 17–24), Problem Solving & Safety (lessons 25–32), and finally Growing Together (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to notice when a friend needs help, tell the difference between honest and dishonest choices and sort everyday behaviors into safe and not safe.

Start here: Lesson 1: Recognizing Feelings is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.