SEL at Home

for Gr. 6 – 8

By: M. Lopez, School Counselor

June 1, 2020
 Emotion regulation is
the ability to identify
your feelings and
manage them
Emotion appropriately. It’s
important to identify
Regulation whether a situation calls
for a big or small
emotions and manage
your emotions
accordingly.
Emotion Regulation Skills:
● Regulate emotions and
demonstrate effective coping
skills when faced with rejection
● Identify your feelings
● Practice resiliency in the face of
rejection
● Regulate emotions not only in
disappointing situations, like
losing a game, but also in
situations in which it’s tempting
to boast, such as winning a game.
● Regulate emotions when false
accusations are made
● Engage in positive self-talk
● Resist jumping to conclusions
and negative self-talk,
● Cope with feeling left out and
hurt feelings
● Resist peer pressure
● Identify 
big emotions vs. small emotions
 and the appropriate reactions for
each
● Identify degrees of feelings in sim
ilar emotions
Calming Activity