This calming strategies toolbook will encourage your class to use a variety of strategies to help when expressing their emotions. This resource can be made for every student or just for those who may require assistance with expressing themselves. It can be kept on their desk for easy access during the day.

 Implementation Ideas/Suggestions

• Print and laminate all the pages and cut out the square emotions and strategies.
• Either yourself or the students can place the strategies with the correct emotions using velcro dots.
• Throughout the day the students can select the emotion card they are feeling and attach it to the front cover.
• Then they can select one or two strategy cards to help them to get back on task.
• Different strategies can be selected each day for some variety. 

This resource makes up part of the overall Your Teacher’s Pet Creature Emotional Regulation approach to introducing self-regulation skills. While it works great on its own we always recommend pairing it with a Your Teacher's Pet Creature and our other related resources.