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Stimulate some fun and community-building morning discussions with our Morning Meeting Chips, full of ideas to get children talking.These cleverly designed Morning Meeting Chips discussion starters are effective early-day icebreakers, with questions for your children or classroom students that warm up their vocal cords and facilitate communication.

• Lots of Discussions: Our Morning Meeting Chips come in a pack of 40 chips, each with a unique conversation-starter.
  
• Sturdy and Colorful: These 2¼” diameter chips are made from sturdy cardboard and have a bright, colorful design on one side.
  
• Well-Written: Morning Meeting Chips have simple-to-answer, kid-friendly questions that easily stimulate discussions.
  
• Foster Community: When used in group situations, these conversation starters allow children to get to know each other and develop a feeling of community.
  
• Encourage Shy Children: When you use Morning Meeting Chips, all children get to participate and talk. No one gets left out, and no one person dominates the conversation.
  
• Age Versatile: The conversation prompts are general enough to use for grades 1 – 6.

Each week, students will complete this journal with things they did in the classroom. Families will appreciate the view into what the students are doing. There are enough pages for 32 entries, and a place for families to write a response. The dual language format is ideal for students and families that speak either English, Spanish, or both.COMMUNICATE: These journals are great for families to communicate back and forth, with the student leading the way.SCHOOL TO HOME: These journals are great for families to keep up with what is happening at school. They can be used each week for up to 32 weeks.DUAL LANGUAGE: These journals have both English and Spanish which is great for families that speak English, Spanish, or both.VARIETY OF INFORMATION: These journals offer different prompts to answer and communicate. With a variety of prompts, students and families will find it to be an engaging tool.A PLACE FOR FAMILY RESPONSES: Each page offers a place for families to respond to what children write. This is a great tool for teachers to gain insight into families.These journals are a great communication tool for students and their families to use. Each week, students write in the journal about what happened within the classroom, and families then respond. It is a great way to build family engagement and communication. This dual language version is a must have for families with the need for English and Spanish.

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This social-emotional coloring and activity book is the perfect way for children to learn about themselves, their feelings, and how to act in the world around them with relationships and more. This book covers topics in the five main areas of social-emotional learning: self-awareness, self-management, social skills, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.As children journey through this coloring and activity book, they will be able to not only reflect, but learn. Social-emotional health starts with learning new things and discovering things about themselves. They will enjoy the coloring aspect, as coloring tends to help reduce stress and anxiety as well as it helps the brain relax and focus.

• 64 PAGES OF LEARNING AND REFLECTING: Each page features a learning and coloring element for interactive learning.
  
• SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING: Throughout this book, children will not only color (which is a proven form of calming) but they will also explore topics about themselves and the world around them.
  
• FEELINGS: Throughout this book children will also explore their feelings about topics such as self-management, peer pressure, anxiety, and more.
  
• SELF-REFECTION: This book features prompts that will have children reflecting on how they feel about themselves, how they act with others, and the relationships and world around them.
  
• COLORING BOOK: Each page features beautiful black-line art that children can color using crayons, colored pencils, and more.

This versatile card set is great for parents to use with their children or for teachers to use with their students. They are perfect for getting the conversation started. Unlike typical card sets, this set covers a wide range of topics. There are many questions that relate to social-emotional learning, skills that are extremely important. These cards are double-sided, making them FULL of content. They are also laminated so they will last through many uses.

• VERSATILE: Great for parents to use with their children or for teachers to use with their students. They are perfect for getting the conversation started.
  
• VARIETY: Unlike typical card sets, this set covers a wide range of topics.
  
• SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING: There are many questions that relate to social-emotional learning, skills that are extremely important.
  
• DOUBLE-SIDED: These cards are double-sided, making them FULL of content.
  
• DURABLE: These cards are laminated so they will last through many uses.

Use these cards to discuss what empathy is, how to handle emotional upsets in others, and how to recognize people’s feelings and emotional states through facial expressions and environment. The smaller cards work well for small groups, the larger photo cards are good for whole-class discussions.

• Great Social-Emotional Tool: Kids can practice empathy by learning how to recognize emotional states in others through facial expressions and environment.
  
• Character Education: Learning to recognize the emotional landscape around you is a life skill. Understanding how to deal with emotional upsets in others is an important aspect of character education.
  
• Multiple Uses: This card set can be used in many settings. It’s a great social-emotional learning tool for morning meeting, as part of your overall social-emotional teaching plan, or as a conversation starter at the beginning of the year.
  
• Cards In Two Sizes: The 20 smaller cards on a ring work well for small group settings; the five double-sided larger photos are good for prompting whole-class discussions.Teach kids to recognize emotional states in others using this empathy discussion card set. A great social-emotional tool!

This unique set of Desktop Helpers is a great tool for helping students calm themselves down, reset, & refocus. The Helpers have 19 textured shapes glued to them (squares, circles, triangles, and stars) plus cut-out squiggles to trace and touch. A square card with an embossed sensory design detaches from the bottom of the Helper. Kids can place the Helpers down on their desks, and take the cards with them as they travel around the classroom.

• Restore Calm And Refocus: Let kids who need to settle down and refocus calm themselves by touching these sensory Desktop Helpers, with a unique, tactile design.
  
• So Many Shapes And Textures:The Helpers have shapes and squiggles in different textures for kids to trace and touch. There are 19 textured shapes (squares, circles, triangles, and stars).
  
• Great For Flexible Classrooms:Each Helper has a detachable square card at the bottom with an embossed sensory star and squiggle that students can take with them as they travel around the classroom, continuing the calming process.
  
• Versatile, One-Of-A-Kind Design:The Helpers can be placed on desks, or move around the room with kids. The design is unique and proprietary to Really Good Stuff. You won't find it anywhere else!
  
• A Quiet Way To Calm Down:The sensory Helpers are a great calming tool for kids who need to settle themselves down, but also for kids who just need to refocus on their work. They allow kids to self-soothe without disturbing classmates.Unique, tactile, sensory calming Desktop Helpers let kids resettle themselves quietly, anywhere in the classroom.

These 10 fidget twists feature different images on each cube. Students twist them quietly to the left and right to keep their fidgets under control and their minds on their work.