Series

Bluejack Kids

9 episodes

Bluejack Kids is a set of short, brightly animated social-emotional learning shorts, most running three to five minutes, that each take on one skill kids can practice. A cartoon guide walks viewers through a single topic — naming emotions and noticing they come and go like ocean waves, calming down with coping moves, building self-confidence, how the brain's thinking and feeling parts work, speaking up assertively, resolving a conflict, taking another's perspective, and setting a goal. The tone is upbeat and concrete, with simple on-screen steps a class can try right away, pitched to the elementary grades. Because each short targets one skill, a teacher can pull the one a morning meeting or a hard moment calls for.

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what this series covers

What Bluejack Kids covers

9 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–6th. Heaviest coverage: Social-Emotional Learning and Health. Between them they line up with 21 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 1
K: 4
1st: 6
2nd: 8
3rd: 8
4th: 5
5th: 3
6th: 1

Episodes per subject

Social-Emotional Learning: 9
Health: 3

CASEL (Social-Emotional) 13

CASEL.SA.1Name your own feelings and notice how they change during the day.
CASEL.SM.1Manage strong emotions and impulses instead of acting on them right away.
CASEL.SM.2Use calming and stress-management strategies (deep breaths, a break, asking for space).
CASEL.RDM.2Identify solutions to personal and social problems.
CASEL.RS.1Communicate clearly and listen actively.
CASEL.RS.4Resolve conflicts constructively — talk it out, repair, compromise.

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CASEL.SA.2Connect feelings, thoughts, and actions — notice what set a feeling off and what you did next.
CASEL.SA.5Show self-confidence — believe you can do hard things and take on a challenge.
CASEL.SA.6Hold a growth mindset: treat effort, practice, and mistakes as how ability grows.
CASEL.SM.4Set personal and group goals and track progress toward them.
CASEL.SM.5Use planning and organizational skills to break a task into steps and manage time and materials.
CASEL.SOA.1Take another person's perspective — describe a situation as they would see it.
CASEL.SOA.2Demonstrate empathy and compassion for others.

National Health Education 8

NHES.7.5.1Demonstrate age-appropriate observable health and safety practices.
NHES.1.5.7Explain ways to prevent common childhood injuries and health problems, such as swimming safety or managing emotions.
NHES.4.2.3Identify and communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
NHES.4.5.9Demonstrate healthy ways to manage and resolve conflict.
NHES.6Standard 6: Students demonstrate effective goal-setting skills to enhance health.
NHES.6.2.1Identify a realistic short-term health goal with help from a trusted adult.

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