Kikori March SEL Calendar
The Kikori SEL Calendar is here to help you move through March with exactly what your students need: a balance between growth mindset and joy!
March is our mid-point during Spring Semester and brings challenges through testing as well as the opportunity to rest during Spring Break. Kikori's activities this month are designed to help your students practice grit and determination that they can then apply in their tests, along with mindfulness practices to help them refocus and re-energize.
March also gives us so many reasons to celebrate! March is Women's Month, with International Women's Day being celebrated on March 8th. It is also Social Work Month and a personal favorite - National Sauce Month!
Our March eSEL Calendar provides you with daily experiential social emotional learning (eSEL) activities accessed via the Kikori platform that you can lead with your students.
Here’s what that looks like:
Start your day with a Morning Message or Advisory Announcement
Practice those ever-important social skills with Greeting Activity
Encourage connection with a Sharing or Acknowledging Activity
Facilitate an interactive National Day Activity (i.e. Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day, National Ice Cream Day, World Kindness Day, etc.)
Flex essential muscles with our Day-of-the-Week Activities for Mindful Monday, Together Tuesday, Wellness Wednesday, Thoughtful Thursday and Fun Friday
BONUS: Looking to help your students build critical social emotional skills? Each of Kikori's activities are aligned to CASEL's Social Emotional Learning standards, 21st Century Skills and Sustainable Development Skills!
PLUS, check out the great resources that bring the Kikori eSEL Calendar to life!
What is happening with our students in March?
Testing and spring break can have both positive and negative effects on students in March:
Testing can create stress for our students, but it can also give them a chance to be challenged and put their grit into practice.
High-stakes tests such as standardized assessments or final exams can lead to heightened levels of stress and anxiety among students, due to pressure to perform. Practice mindfulness activities with your students every Wellness Wednesday this month, with videos by Marilyn Levin!
Test preparation can disrupt regular classroom routines and instructional time. Build in a steady Morning Meeting and Circle Time to help with a sense of structure!
Testing can also provide valuable opportunities for students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. The goal of these tests is for you to be able to assess where your students are at and provide targeted support. Build in goal-setting activities to help your students reflect and grow!
Spring Break can be a much-needed break or a difficult week away from the safety and connection that school brings for some students.
Spring break offers students a break from the demands of schoolwork. Help your students understand the value of this opportunity to rest and recharge - and how that sets the brain up for future learning!
Some families are able to travel - and some families are not. Be thoughtful with your questioning around Spring Break plans. For example, ask what students will do to relax, rather than where they are going.
The interruption to the school routine during spring break can pose challenges for students. Be prepared for this on the day students come back from Spring Break, ready to re-establish routines and help students feel cared for as soon as they walk in the door!
Utilizing Kikori's eSEL Calendar will provide you with activities to support building relationships, stress management and communication that can help create a supportive and engaging learning environment for students during this month!
Ready to get started?
Download March SEL Calendar Weeks 1-2 For FREE Below
March Elementary SEL Calendar
Middle & High School Advisory SEL Calendar
Would you like March's full SEL calendar?
Are you an individual educator? Sign up for Kikori Premium!
For the price of one Teacher's Pay Teacher's printable, gain access to an entire month of curated, research-backed activities! Premium memberships include access to daily Morning Meeting slides, downloadable activity printables and access to a library of playlists designed to support student outcomes aligned with SEL Standards and 21st Century Skills!
Are you and other educators in your school using Kikori? Sign up for the Kikori School-wide Solution!
Kikori's School-wide Solution provides all educators in your school with access to Kikori's platform including extra school-wide bonuses like Morning Meeting customizable slides, school-wide sharing and communication, staff training on trauma-informed eSEL best practices on community-building and so much more!
Would you like to learn more about the research-backed practices built into Kikori's eSEL Calendar?
How does Kikori ensure these activities build social emotional skills like self-awareness and relationship skills?
Each activity provides you with instructions that follow Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle. This means the activities help youth actively engage and then provides reflection questions related to the activity.
These questions help youth reflect and build self- and social-awareness (what happened during the activity?), make meaningful connections to their own lives (how did what happened during the activity connect to other experiences?), and engage in personal growth (what are they going to take from this activity into their lives?)
Daily National Day 10-min Prop-free Activities
Here at Kikori, we think it's important to educate our students on important days of the year and learn what they stand for. To make team building in the classroom or at youth development programs MEANINGFUL, we've included a special National Holiday for every day and a corresponding team building activity. The National Days are specially curated for a mix of important moments in history; STEM learning related to math and science; days related to wellbeing; and some days Just for FUNN!
Kikori's Day-of-the-week Activities
Each day, the SEL Calendar provides you with an activity focused on the following daily Kikori themes:
Mindful Monday activities include meditations, visualizations and mindfulness
Together Tuesday activities involve team building and initiatives that build trust
Wellness Wednesday activities focus on ways to build physical and emotional health
Thoughtful Thursday activities use problem solving and reflection to help grow inward
Fun Friday activities are energizing activities that reinforce the importance of joy
How to Use Your Monthly eSEL Calendar:
How easy is it? Just click the activity!
All of the Planners are CLICKABLE to take you straight into the national days and Kikori activities in the Kikori platform! The Elementary and Advisory calendars share a monthly theme, and activities within the two clickable calendars are specially catered to that age range. If you want to specify for your student grade further, click on the correct grade level variation within the activity! We also encourage you to explore “Variations” offered within individual Kikori activities.
How to Kikori:
What is your favorite activity to play in March with your students? Let us know in the comments below - and we can help you add it into the Kikori platform!
