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Mindfulness Monday: Compliment Activity
This is a great activity to do at the end of the year because the students have gotten a chance to know each other. What You’ll Need: -blank paper -markers -tape Have each student tape the blank paper to their back. As students to circulate the room writing compliments about each other. By the end
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Mindfulness Monday: Bubbles
Here’s a fun way to make your own bubbles. What You’ll Need: -1 cup water -cups or small bowls -2 tablespoons of dish soap -1 tablespoon of glycerin -pipe cleaners Combine the dish soap, water and glycerin in a cup or small bowl. Bend the pipe cleaner into the bubble wand shape you desire. Blow
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Mindfulness Monday: Cloud Dough
Cloud dough is a fun sensory activity to try at home! What you’ll need: Using a ratio of 2 parts corn starch to 1 part conditioner, combine the ingredients until they reach a dough-like consistency that you can knead. Store in an air tight container.
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End of the Year Reflections on Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness
As the last day of the school approaches, I can’t help but reflect on the challenges and success of this past year. Of the many great things about this school year, the most notable one is that our school adopted a cell phone policy that has been a complete game changer. My students actual answer
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Mindfulness Monday: Coffee Filter Art
Today we tried a fun activity with coffee filters. They make a great canvas for an art project. What you’ll need: Markers, coffee filter, and a spray bottle Instructions: Use the markers to color the coffee filter. Play with different amount of color to create a variety of effects. Lightly spray the color filer and
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Mindfulness Monday: Wind Chimes
Today we made wind chimes. They proved to be a challenging activity, given the amount of beads that fell on the floor and the difficulty we had tying the fishing line but the results were worth it: What you will need: Twigs, twine, fishing line, beads, bells, scissors, paper plates. First, tie the twine around
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Mindfulness Monday: Mental Health Awareness Month Coloring Pages
May is Mental Health Awareness Month so I will have a large stack of mental health themes coloring pages available for the next few weeks.
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2 am Meditation
For years I struggled with waking up at 2am in a panic and unable to fall back asleep. I would scroll on my phone, listen to a podcast or jest let my thoughts race in a self-hatred anxiety spiral. But since I started a consistent meditation practice, I have been sleeping through the night without
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Mindfulness Monday: 5 Senses Pause
Today I shared an exercise that focuses on the 5 senses with my students. I included the link to the the PDF if you’d like to try it in your classroom! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OabtCLQEirlp5qTTiVzz0YNO-D65QCn2ghNgHFYmEtI/edit?tab=t.0
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Mindfulness Monday: Trust Circle
Do you trust that you can fit inside an index card? Try this activity and find out! What you’ll need: -an index card -scissors