Summer Emotions Sorting Mats Set 2 | SEL Speech Therapy SPED Autism
Product Description
Summer Emotions Sorting Mats Set 2 | 7 Emotion Mats with Summer Visuals
This second summer-themed emotions sorting set teaches students to identify and sort emotions through engaging summer visuals. The set includes 7 unique sorting mats — one for each of the following emotions: Happy, Sad, Silly, Surprised, Angry, Worried, and Joyful. Each mat features summer imagery including beach balls, sunshine, popsicles, ice cream, buckets, pineapples, and watermelons.
Perfect for SEL lessons, speech therapy, special education, and end-of-year emotional support.
★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Special Education Teachers, School Counselors, Autism Classrooms, SEL Lessons, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade
7 Emotion Sorting Mats Included:
- 😊 Sorting Happy
- 😢 Sorting Sad
- 🤪 Sorting Silly
- 😲 Sorting Surprised
- 😠 Sorting Angry
- 😟 Sorting Worried
- 🥳 Sorting Joyful
Summer Visuals Throughout:
Beach balls, sunshine, popsicles, ice cream, buckets, pineapples, and watermelons — fun summer imagery students will enjoy.
Skills Targeted:
- Identifying emotions (7 different feelings)
- Emotional vocabulary (including nuanced emotions like silly and joyful!)
- Social emotional learning (SEL)
- Classification and categorization
- Visual discrimination
- Empathy and perspective taking
- Emotional regulation
- Receptive and expressive language
- Following directions
- Independent work skills
How to Use These Emotions Sorting Mats:
Students look at each picture and sort it onto the correct emotion mat. Use in:
- Independent workstations and centers
- Small group SEL lessons
- Language therapy groups
- 1:1 instruction
- Counseling check-ins
- Morning meetings
- Summer school activities
- End-of-year SEL lessons
- Picnic/summer thematic units
Built-in differentiation: To decrease difficulty, give students fewer mats (2-3 emotions at a time). To increase difficulty, give them all 7 mats to sort simultaneously.
If your students enjoy these activities, there are many more sorting activities in my collection, you can find some of them at the links below:
More Hands-On Sorting Activities
For more hands-on spring or summer, picnic, or emotions themed activities, please see the following links:
