Grades 1–3
Growth Mindset Power Words
Fill in the six power words, yet, practice, mistakes, try, help and brain, then pick your favorite.
SEL worksheet · Growth mindset
Look How I Have Grown
Draw something you could not do as a baby, something you can do now and something you will learn next.
- Grade level
- Grades K–2
- Time
- About 20 minutes
- Topic
- Growth mindset
- Answer key
- Not needed: answers vary
- Kids practice
- Growth mindset, Perseverance, Positive self-talk, Learning from mistakes
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- As a baby, I could not…
- Next, I will learn…
- Trace the sentence.
- I keep growing!
Teacher tip
Ask families to send a baby photo to share alongside the drawing.
How to use it
- Share a mistake you made this week and what you learned from it.
- Add “yet” to the end of kids’ “I can’t” statements all week.
- Model your own answer first. Kids open up more when the grown-up goes first.
Watch for
Praise for being “smart”. Try praising the effort or the strategy instead.
Talk about it
- What do you say to yourself when something is hard?
- Have you ever been in a moment like this? What happened?
Take it further
Make a class “Power of Yet” bulletin board with kids’ goals.
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My Amazing Brain: True or False
Circle true or false for ten facts about how your brain grows when you learn, then fix two of the false ones.
Grades 1–4
Stuck? Try a Strategy
Read six stuck moments and circle the learning strategy that helps most, like rereading or breaking a job into parts.
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