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New Product :: Anger Trading Cards

If there’s one thing I know about my students it’s that they LOVE trading cards – sports cards, cards from their favorite television show, any kind of cards. AND they’ve memorized virtually every statistic possible about their given characters or sports star. However, they don’t love learning every detail about controlling their anger quite as much, until I showed them these!

Anger Trading Cards Anger Trading CardsThese 15 cards are designed to look like students’ other favorite cards, but highlight various strategies for managing anger safely and effectively. Each card also features an interactive activity or technique to help students be successful.

These cards are great for activities (ideas below), or can be displayed as posters or held together on a ring for students to keep with them as a reminder.

Cards are presented in full-page (8.5″ x 11″) and trading card (2.5″ x 3.5″) size!

Anger Trading Cards

Activity Suggestions:
– “Go Fish” or “Matching,”: Print 2 or 4 sets and play as usual.
– “War”: Print 3-4 sets. Play as usual – the card with the highest star difficulty wins.
– “Spoons”: Print 4 sets. Play as usual.
– Have students draw 3 cards. Role play an anger scenario and have them act out one of their selected cards to manage their anger during the scenario.
– Charades: Students draw a strategy to act out while others guess.

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New Product :: Anger Scoot

If you’ve been following along, you know that I love “Scoot Games.” Unfortunately, there’s a million and one ELA and Math Scoots, but virtually NO special ed/counseling Scoots. Go figure, right? Well, I’m trying to fix that! I’ve talked about Bullying, Feelings, and Friendship Scoot in the past, and here’s a new one!

Here are the rules:

Place one task card on each student desk or around the room in numerical order. It makes it easier for students is cards are put in order. Then, give each student a recording sheet and a pencil. Next, each student completes the card on their desk and writes their answer in the number on their recording sheet that corresponds to the number on the task card.

Anger Scoot Game

After about a minute, the teacher says “Scoot” (or uses another signal) and the students quickly stand up, leave the card at their desk, take their recording sheet with them, and scoot over to the next seat with the next number and get started on the question right away.

I’m planning to make more social-emotional scoot games as time goes on, but for now, check out my Anger Scoot Game. It contains 35 different feelings task cards, which can be used as a way to review concepts in a fun, interactive way with kids in grades 3-6. Question formats include several types such as “Draw…”, Short-Answer, Multiple Choice, True/False, and “Find a Partner and Perform a Task.”

Cards are presented in PDF format and are completely editable in Adobe Reader, so the wording and questions can be adjust to your student’s needs and ability levels! Scoot recording sheets are provided for several different class sizes (8, 12, 20, 30, and 35), so it can be played in a small group or full class!

Anger Scoot Game

Anger Scoot Game

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New Product :: Calming Posters

Looking for a great set of posters to help students learn about coping strategies, but don’t went to spend upwards of $20 for them!? This set of posters is great for helping students who struggle with knowing how to calm down. It contains 12 different posters in both colored and black & white versions, featuring the following coping strategies:

  • Take Deep Breaths
  • Count
  • Run an Errand
  • Drink Water
  • Exercise
  • Listen to Music
  • Read
  • Think Positive Thoughts
  • Take a Walk
  • Take a Break
  • Squeeze a Fidget
  • Close Your Eyes

The black and white versions make great coloring pages!

Posters each a picture visual and words to meet the needs of many ages of students.

Calming Posters

Calming Posters

Calming Posters

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