Fifth Grade SEL

About Grade 5 SEL

Grade 5 social-emotional learning (SEL) (5th grade, ages 10–11) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Unit 1 — Self-Awareness (lessons 1–8), Unit 2 — Self-Management (lessons 9–16), Unit 3 — Social Awareness (lessons 17–24), Unit 4 — Relationship Skills (lessons 25–32), and finally Unit 5 — Decision-Making & Capstone (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to notice the level of activation in your body, identify what makes a friendship healthy and tell helpful feedback apart from unhelpful feedback.

Start here: Lesson 1: Identify Emotions & Triggers 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.