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Community Spotlight
Thank you to Ms. Tobin for sharing her snowflake cutout activity!
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Mindfulness Monday: Macrame
Today we made macrame bracelets. Macrame is the art of knotting thread or string in patterns to create a decoration. I am gave students embroidery thread, scissors and tape and we followed this video to make our bracelets.
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Mindfulness Club
Today at Mindfulness Club we tried the Dancing Water Bowl. After a few tries, on member got the water to dance! I was so excited I cut the video off short, LOL. The group still wants to try LEGOs but we have a few other ideas in the works, too. I am so impressed by…
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Mindfulness Monday: Word for the Year
For today’s activity, I asked students to chose a word for 2025 that represents a goal, intention, or mantra. I had them write the word on an index card and then place where they will see it often. This is a great way to look at the new year as an opportunity to reset and…
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Mindfulness Club
Yesterday at our Mindfulness Club meeting, I had two students engage in sensory work. They used slime, foam, and dough to create Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) sounds and they added things like glitter and LED lights for an added visual effect. ASMR is a pleasurable response to specific stimuli, such as: sounds, imagery, physical sensations,…
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Mindfulness Monday: Candlelight Visualization Activity
For today’s activity, I gave each student a battery operated tea light candle. I put a snowy cabin scene from YouTube on the SMART Board. I asked students to imagine that the candle represents something important to them, a friend, a loved one or some one they have lost. We Took a few moments to…
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Mindfulness Monday: Mindful Coloring (Holiday Edition)
Today’s activity is mindful coloring and by now students know the routine so they choose either markers or colored pencils to color their Happy Holidays coloring page. They also know they can switch out the design for an other choice as I leave a pile of other options on the middle desk.
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Mindfulness Monday: Mindful Snowflakes
Today we are cutting snowflake shapes out of paper and writing all the things we want to let go of on them. A friend gave me copies of snowflakes patterns to use and I made four copies of each of the 21 designs. Email me at [email protected] for copies of the patterns. Once your students…
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Mindfulness Monday: Mindful Coloring
Today’s activity was Mindful Coloring. I shared a variety of fall and Thanksgiving themed coloring pages with my students. Not as many students participated today, which is unfortunate because the level of dysregulation in my classroom was palpable. I find this to be very common around this time of year. I find myself struggling to…
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Mindfulness Monday: Fluffy Slime
Back by popular demand, today we are making slime. As always, I like to keep the activity as simple as possible so we made 3 ingredient “fluffy” slime. You will need the following: -glue -contact solution -shaving cream -food coloring -a large bowl