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Mindfulness Monday: Breathing Sticks
Today’s activity was a hit because the breathing sticks also served as fidget toys. My students made a point to tell me how much they like the arts and craft style activities. To make the breathing sticks, I instructed the students to tie a knot at the bottom of the pipe cleaner, add the five…
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Mindfulness Monday: Origami Heart
The first day back from break is always a challenge so we took the time to focus on a mindful origami heart. Here is the link to the video we used:
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Mindfulness Monday: Be Your Own Valentine
Since it’s the week of Valentine’s Day, our Mindfulness Monday activity is to make yourself a Valentine’s Day heart. Using pink or red construction paper, cut out a heart and write a loving message to yourself. This is a great opportunity to celebrate self-love!
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Mindfulness Monday: Mudras
Today I shared several mudras with my students and used the following:
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Mindfulness Monday: Mindful Mugs
Today’s Mindfulness Monday activity is Mindful Mugs. This paper copy of a mug of hot cocoa gives students a chance to be mindful about happiness. I asked each student to write down the things that bring them joy on the marshmallows in the mug.
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Mindfulness Monday: Mindful Pencils
We are in the middle of midterms and it’s a stressful time of year for both students and teachers. Today I gave each of my students a pencil with the word “breathe” written on it. I hope this gesture helps ease the all this mid-year anxiety! I hope this post reminds you take breath and…
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Book Study: Mindfulness by Ellen J. Langer
I just finished reading Ellen J. Langer’s book Mindfulness, and I have so many important takeaways from her research. Right from the start, she points out that “to do an act mindfully, novelty must be introduced.” I see this as directly related to the work I am doing in my classroom by exposing students to…
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Mindfulness Monday: Desk Yoga
Today we had a two hour delay, but I was still able to share this desk yoga activity with one of my classes and I posted the link on Google Classroom for anyone else who wanted to try it at home. Here is the link I used: If you try this activity with your class,…
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Different Measures of Success
I’ve always been accustom to measuring growth sequentially. Whether it was adding more miles during my marathon training, or counting the number left in a stack of essays to grade, I measured my progress by the increase in number completed. However, my healing journey has forced me to measure my success differently. According to my…
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Mindfulness Monday: Mindful Snowman
Today’s Mindfulness Monday activity is a Mindful Snowman. First I used this video to do a breathing activity with my class. Then, I had each student cut out a paper snowman and write the breathing exercise on it as reminder to themselves or for someone else to take a minute to breath with intention. Some…