Brain Blocks: The First Six Weeks (K-2 Edition)
A complete classroom system for teaching executive function skills—brick-by-brick.
The first weeks of school shape everything that follows.
Brain Blocks: The First Six Weeks helps K–2 teachers build a shared language for learning from the very beginning of the year. Through stories, movement, classroom routines, teacher scripts, printable resources, and school-to-home connections, students learn the brain skills they need to start tasks, notice feelings, pause before acting, calm their bodies and minds, think flexibly, and ask for help.
This is not another behavior chart.
This is not a one-time SEL lesson.
This is a practical, ready-to-teach system that helps young learners understand what is happening in their brains and gives teachers simple language to coach those skills all year long.
What’s Included
6 ready-to-teach student lessons
Each lesson introduces one Brain Block through a predictable, kid-friendly structure: story, discussion, gesture, mantra, practice, reflection, and application.
Complete teacher guide
Includes lesson-at-a-glance pages, teacher background, scripts, pacing, classroom routines, coaching language, and implementation support.
Printable classroom resources
Posters, desk plates, student materials, visual supports, and tools to help students use the Brain Blocks language throughout the day.
School-to-home connections
Family-friendly letters and practice ideas that bring the same language home without jargon or overwhelm.
A shared K–2 language for executive function
Students learn simple phrases they can actually remember and use:
Start Block: I can START—just one small PART!
Feelings Block: I can NOTICE and NAME—the feelings in my BRAIN!
Stop Block: I can STOP for a MINUTE—I am learning my LIMIT!
Calm Block: I can take the TIME—to CALM my busy MIND!
Flex Block: I can THINK flexibly—I’ll TRY a new STRATEGY!
Help Block: I can ASK for HELP—It’s how I GROW. It’s okay not to KNOW!
Perfect For
K–2 teachers, school counselors, instructional coaches, interventionists, homeschool educators, and elementary teams looking for a calm, practical way to teach executive function skills during the first six weeks of school.
Why Teachers Love It
Brain Blocks gives teachers the words, visuals, and routines to make invisible brain skills visible and teachable.
Instead of saying, “Pay attention,” “Calm down,” “Get started,” or “Make a better choice,” teachers can use consistent, skill-building language students understand:
“This looks like a Start Block moment.”
“Let’s notice and name the feeling.”
“Your brain might need a Calm Block.”
“What strategy could you try next?”
“What help could your brain use?”
Our Promise
By the end of the First Six Weeks, students don’t just know classroom rules.
They know the language of learning.
They have six tools they can return to again and again.
They begin to see themselves as Brain Builders—capable of learning, growing, trying, pausing, asking, and starting again.
Build the foundation for a calmer classroom, stronger routines, and more independent learners—one Brain Block at a time.
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