My Mouth Is a Volcano Activities | Interrupting and Turn Taking SEL | K-2

Looking for My Mouth Is a Volcano activities? Help students practice interrupting less and waiting for a turn with these social-emotional learning printables for kindergarten, first and second grade.
Use them with My Mouth Is a Volcano by Julia Cook: one activity per page, big print, original watercolor pictures.

WHAT'S INSIDE (12-page PDF, color edition + printer-friendly edition)
- How Does My Volcano Feel?: a feelings check with faces to circle (1 page)
- Ways to Wait My Turn: 5 strategies to read and rank (1 page)
- Interrupting or Waiting?: sort 8 scenes by writing letters in two boxes; a cut-and-glue version is optional (1 page)
- Think About the Story: 4 multiple-choice questions (1 page)
- Think and Write: 2 written questions (1 page)
- Retell the Story: beginning, middle and end (1 page)
- Writing Time: write about a time you had to wait (1 page)
- My Anchor Poster: 4 steps to hang in your room (1 page)
- Answer key with teacher notes (2 pages)

WHY TEACHERS LIKE IT
- No cutting required, and no right-or-wrong feelings
- Comprehension, retell and writing pages never give the answer away; the sort shows one gray example
- Original watercolor pictures in a color edition plus a printer-friendly edition
- Strategies children can use right away: breathe, count, write it down and raise a hand

WHO IT'S FOR
- K-2 classrooms, counselors and small groups
- SEL lessons on self-control, patience and respect
- Morning meeting, sub plans and homeschool

You will need your own copy of My Mouth Is a Volcano. This is an independent companion resource. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author or publisher. The book is not included.