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Relationship Skills Brain Breaks — SEL Movement Game (Grades 3–5)

Grades 3–5 · Relationship Skills · Movement Games

Read a card, and the whole class answers at once by moving.

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Grades: 3–5
What you get: 60 game cards in 6 rounds60 pages
Type: Movement Games
Use it: PrintView & Print in your browser
Competency: Relationship Skills

About this resource

Read a card, and the whole class answers at once by moving. These relationship skills brain breaks bring five Relationship Skills skills into one SEL movement game for Grades 3–5: social skills, active listening, teamwork, conflict resolution and respect. Rounds 1–5 each take one skill, and Round 6 brings them together. Every movement has a seated version, and it’s print and play, with no prep beyond printing.

What students practice

Social Skills: joining a talk
Listening: in your words
Teamwork: every need covered
Conflicts: no-blame words
Respect: disagree well
Partner challenge

What’s inside

60game cards in 6 rounds, each running Connect, Know, Choose, Do and Reflect, with a Round Card per round

24open practice cards to use any day, in any order

20movement cards, room signs, a movement menu and a printing guide

60pages

A detailed teacher script for every round, written to be read aloud
The “Relationship Tools” poster with six moves to learn and practice

A look inside

Example card: “If you heard every word, you understood the message. TRUE or FALSE?”

Poster movesTopic Add-On, Paraphrase Check, Role Match, I-Statement, Disagree With the Idea, Read-and-Pick

Each Round Card gives the plan, what you’ll need and the goal for the end of the round

How to use these relationship skills brain breaks

Quick brain breakPull one open practice card or a single Do card for 2–5 minutes of movement between lessons

Full SEL lessonPlay one round (15–20 minutes) in morning meeting or SEL time; it ends calm, so students are ready for what’s next

Play the rounds in order the first time, then replay any round or pick single cards

Tight on space? Use the seated version of any movement at desks

Grade fit

You read the cards aloud and students answer by moving, so every reader can join in. The questions go further than the K–2 version, with true-or-false traps, mixed answers and real choices that older students can argue about.