IB PYP Social Emotional Skills Task Cards for Early Years

Bring the IB PYP Social Skills & Self Management Skills into practice in your early years classroom. Build a positive mindset and other social emotional skills in a fun and hands-on way with these creativity task cards. Print or upload to your digital platform. Suitable for UK & USA.

Designed for the IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills that target social-emotional learning, you can use these as an explicit learning focus within your guided stations, as part of play-based centres or as brain breaks. The children use the brightly coloured images and positive, self-talk statements to listen to or read and then create the task through modelling clay or drawing the activity on the card. The guiding questions on each card are designed to bring their attention to themselves as they then discuss the subject to learn and grow within the sub-skills of Social and Self-management skills:

Social Skills: Social-emotional intelligence-developing awareness of self & others, managing emotions, using strategies to actively resolve conflict.

Interpersonal relationships: developing positive, interpersonal relationships, advocating for self and others.

Self-Management: States of Mind – mindfulness, emotional management, perseverance, resilience.

What’s included:

•Sets 1-3: Through simple affirmations that focus on the present:

I am statements, I can statement and setting goals for the day with, Today, I will statements.

•Set 4: In addition, you will find a focus for developing an awareness of self and others and states of mind with the set of task cards that look at our emotions as we learn to identify our human feelings and in turn, learn how we can manage our emotions.

The play-based activities are chosen to explicitly teach and implicitly practice positive self-talk affirmations. For each affirmation, the children will build or draw to go along with that affirmation. This provides hands-on practice and learning opportunities.

•With 40 creativity cards, there are lots of opportunities to practice social-emotional learning skills.

These task cards enable each of these sub-skills to be put into context with engaging creative play as a means of delivering the explicit learning.

Divided into 4 sets of 8, you can bring social-emotional learning to our youngest learner.

•Full size task cards for use with your digital tools.

Enjoy!

Susan Powers

PYPteachingtools.com