Teaching kids how to calm down using mindfulness can be hard. Kids need a way to learn how to regulate emotions, and mindful practices help!
Mindfulness is great to reduce stress, anxiety, and pain.
Release negative feelings and find inner power with this grounding 30-min yoga for anxiety and fear relief.
Practicing mindfulness is a great way to calm your child and make them attentive. Here're 10 simple and quick mindfulness exercises your child will enjoy.
Making mindfulness a part of your routine benefits your well-being. Check out this collection of mindfulness worksheets to start your mindfulness habit today.
Classroom/behavior management is one of the most important things to master in your classroom. Having solid behavior management helps maintain a positive classroom environment, while enabling teachers and students to accomplish LEARNING! Here are TEN tips and tricks for behavior management I use in my classroom: Greeting Students at the Door The way you start
Fun transitions to try in your yoga practice and classes!
I often post questions from teachers on my Facebook wall. It is always amazing to see the helpful and insightful answers that other teachers post. A few days ago, a teacher named Jenny Eldridge had a
You’ve probably tried all the commonly recommended ways to quiet a chatty class, only to be left frustrated by the lack of results. If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried everyt…
Critical thinking questions include, 'Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?"
The Nine Purification Breaths is a pranayama practice from the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition, which will heps you clear and purify the channels.
Math Projects & Activities I have a passion for creating engaging, meaningful, real world projects for my students to complete. My math projects and activities are often designed as enrichment and opportunities for teachers to differentiate their curriculum. Thousands of teachers around the world use these projects (which blows my mind!), and I hope you...
Learn about the human digestive system for kids twith this memorable digestion experiment. ZANY human body project making poop!
Are you curious to learn more about your personality style? Look no further than the Personality Styles Assessment Worksheet! This helpful tool is perfect for individuals who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of themselves and their unique traits. With clear and concise questions, this worksheet will guide you in identifying your strengths, weaknesses, and overall personality type. Whether you are a student, professional, or simply someone seeking personal growth, this assessment worksheet is an excellent resource to help you dive into the fascinating world of personality styles.
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Thousands of teachers have used these tried and true GUARANTEED tups to stop students from blurting out. Chatty Class? YOU NEED TO READ THIS!
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) worksheets are tools that can be used by therapists and individuals seeking self-help to facilitate the practice of CBT techniques. By providing a structured format, these worksheets help individuals identify and challenge negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, ultimately promoting positive changes in their lives. Whether you are a therapist looking for effective tools to support your clients' progress or an individual seeking self-reflection and personal growth, CBT worksheets can be a valuable resource to enhance the therapeutic process.
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This simple brain worksheet PDF is designed to be an easily approachable visual teaching aid for all ages.
Have you ever had a class with so many difficult, disruptive students that you felt that you could barely even teach? What can you do to get past it? In this post, I am going to address this problem with my best advice, and some advice from others as well.
This circle of control activity teaches students the difference between what is inside their control and what is outside of their control.
This post was originally posted back in 2015 on my blog and has been a popular post since that time. I worked for a decade as a family counselor and elementary school counselor before staying
Learn what is under your skin with a fun life-size human body project for kids. Download FREE skeletal system bones and organ printables!
This 90 second video will give you some background into the source and purpose of Marzano Scales. Read on for more specific information! Marzano's The NEW Art and Science of Teaching, highlighted some principles of education that most teachers know, but easily forget in the business of everyday duties. My introduction…
Personal space activities and teaching boundaries for kids are important (but tricky) topics to cover. These playful learning activities will help.
Guess what? It's the weekend! Two glorious days of sleeping in and lazing about (I wish!). And boy, do I deserve them after the week I have had with my precious treasures. :) The first few weeks of Prep (or Kindergarten if you're not from 'round these parts!) are always tough as the kidlets get used to the routines and rules of school. Throw in a handful of boys with 'tricky' behaviour and you've got yourself a recipe for days that feel like they go on forever... during which you use your 'cranky voice' more than once. This week I found myself using a few behaviour management ideas that are truly 'magic' in a slightly desperate attempt to get things in my classroom back on track. Day-to-day I use the famous 'clip chart', known in my room as the 'peg chart', for kidlets to monitor their behaviours. I use the Monster Manners pack from Growing Kinders as a springboard for moving up (to the pink card - Super Kid!) or down the chart. Seriously, you need this pack! So cute and so effective (also helps that it's free)! I refer to my display daily and the kids get it. Within a day, one of my precious treasures said "You sit criss cross, and that's the bottom of the line!" (If you use this pack, you'll understand!) This year, the clip chart was working for about 90% of the kidlets... and those remaining 10% sure were giving me the run around. Bring in the magic tricks! Trick number 1 is a life lesson, as well as a magic cure for some tricky classroom behaviours. All you need are some dollar store bubbles, and you have some 'Self Control Bubbles'! Take your class outside and sit them in a circle. Explain that you are going to blow some bubbles in their direction, and the first time you do they can pop away as much as they want. Go ahead and let them go wild (within reason... I always tell my kidlets their bottoms must stay on the ground). Make sure everyone gets a heap of bubbles to pop. The second time, explain that you are going to blow more bubbles, but this time they MUST NOT pop a single one... even if it lands right on their nose! Explain that the feeling of really, really wanting to do something, but holding back, is called self control. Ask for a volunteer to go first and choose someone you know will resist the bubbles. Praise them for using self control. Then go around the circle and blow more bubbles at each kidlet (I make sure to get right 'up in their face' so they really, really have to control themselves!) - making sure to encourage all of them to think about how it feels to have self control. As the weeks go on refer back to this activity any time one of your kidlets is struggling with those behaviours that require them to practice more self control. They will be able to recall the feeling, trust me! You might like to repeat the bubble activity a few times during the year - my kidlets LOVE knowing that they are pros at something... and self control ain't a bad thing to be pro at! :) Grab this free pack from my TpT store that will help you use this activity in your classroom. It contains an explanation of how to complete the Self Control Bubbles activity, a label for your bubble bottle, and 3 simple recording sheets. And for my second trick... Quiet Spray! All you need for this is an empty spray bottle. I bought mine from Kmart for less than $2. Fill it with water. My spray bottle wasn't clear, but if it was I would have added a drop of food colouring or some glitter to make it look more 'magic'. I also would have taken time to make sure my label was size-appropriate for my bottle... but you live and learn! :) I added a few drops of rosewater to my Quiet Spray... mostly because I wanted lavender, couldn't find it at the grocery store, but wanted my Quiet Spray to smell calming. Here's how it works: Any time you want your kidlets to work quietly (I used mine today before group work), explain that you will use the Quiet Spray to help them work the best that they can. I ask my class to take a deep breath in through their noses and out through their mouths as I mist Quiet Spray over their heads. MAGIC! You could even use Quiet Spray at the beginning of each day along with some relaxation techniques, or for individual students who need some extra magic in their day. :) There you have it folks, some new magic tricks for you to try with your tricky kidlets. :) Please let me know if they work for you! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! :) Lauren
Empathy is a critical skill for kids to develop and one of the hallmarks of emotional healing as detailed in the Grand Feelings Exit Plan (Signs of Emotional Health). The Empathy Map is a great way to get kids thinking about and understanding empathy for others. It is adapted from a business setting where it is used to understand clients but works great with kids. Here’s What You Need A large sheet of paper or a board. Markers. Sticky notes. Pen/Pencil Here’s How To Set Up the Empathy Map (as shown above) Title the page “Empathy Map.” Underneath the title write the word “Issue” Draw a large box taking up the page underneath. In the middle of the box, draw a face or a picture of a person. Draw a large circle around the person leaving pace between the circle and the box as well as the circle and the drawing of the face/person. Draw six straight(ish) lines out from the picture in the middle of the circle to the box leaving six spaces inside and outside the circle. Label the six spaces (either inside or outside the circle) as follows: Hearing, Thinking, Seeing, Saying, Doing and Feeling. Label the area inside the circle “Our Expectations” and outside the circle “Reality.” How to Use the Empathy Map Start by determining the situation or issue. Write it on a post-it note and stick it next to the word issue. The issue can be something the young person is currently going through or a hypothetical situation. In this instance, our issue for the map show was “My best friend yelled at me and called me a jerk!” Starting on the inside of the circle, use post-it notes to identify what we might hear, think, see, say and do when faced for the issue. In this example, we heard “Mean words,” “Rumors” and a bad tone. We felt “Anger,” “Resentment” and “Jealousy.” We could react saying things like “Go Away” or a “I hate you.” In this part of the exercise, the point it to identify actual thoughts, actions and feelings (expressed or unexpressed). There are no right answers and we are not searching for how we should respond. Once the inside of the circle is done, work through the outside going through each of the six sections again and focusing on what the person identified in the issue might be hearing, thinking, seeing, saying, doing and feeling. In this example, we wondered if maybe our friend was hearing her “Dad yell at her” and taking that out on us. Perhaps she was feeling “Emptiness” or “Hurt.” perhaps what she is trying to say is “Can someone listen to me,” “Please talk to me,” or “Please love me.” As you talk through the items on the outside of the circle, ask the child(ren) how thinking about what the person is going through or experiencing changes their outlook on the situation and how it might change how they react. For more awesome resources for learning about and dealing with emotions, please visit our Hope 4 Hurting Kids Emotions Help Center.
I love Morning Meetings with my sixth graders. Our typical Morning Meetings follow the structure from Responsive Classroom, but there are some days that we spend a lot longer on activities than oth…
Learning about the human brain is a fascinating area of study for students of all ages. Use these free printable human brain worksheets for your science notebooks, journals, and science projects. Human Brain Labeled Chart
This back to school "snowball" fight activity will have your students getting up and out of their seats moving around the room to get to know each other.
Are your kids anxious or otherwise not self-regulating? The 5 Finger Breathing Technique can often work wonders. Free printable PDF included.
Inside Out Lesson Plans & FREE Inside Out Classroom Feeling Chart
The Unfair Game is a totally unfair twist on Jeopardy that your students will LOVE to hate! Learn how to play and find sample game boards in this post.
Fawning — also called please-and-appease — is a trauma response that can have deep impacts on your relationships and your sense of self.
What are we trying to understand about ourselves when we are 'balancing' our root chakra?
Self-Regulation Strategies Posters Bulletin Board with Nervous System Tips for Teaching Students: The techniques included in this nervous system regulation file: are brain-based techniques that have been tried and tested engage the vagus nerve in the brain activate the parasympathetic nervous system are fast, easy, and effective This file includes: teacher Tips 4 pages that breakdown the brain science behind each technique (they are meant for teacher use, but can absolutely be shared with students) 10 full-color posters 10 black-and-white posters card-sized versions of each poster in full color and in black-and-white a digital version in Google Slides NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION! This product includes a digital option (as well as the no-prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet. The digital option is in GOOGLE SLIDES. Thank you for taking the time to check out this nervous system regulation product. Please direct questions to me PRIOR to purchasing this product. You may also be interested in these corners: Conflict Resolution Corner for Upper Elementary Calm Down Corner for Upper Elementary (People Clipart) Self-Care Corner for Upper Elementary You may also be interested in these posters: GROWTH MINDSET AFFIRMATIONS Need growth mindset bell ringers? Choose your grade here: GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for Kinder-1st Grade GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 2ND-3RD Grade GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 4th Grade and Up
What temperament are you? Our ladies' class is studying Spirit-Controlled Temperament by Tim LaHaye. This has been an interesting study.
7 awesome strategies for digitizing your worksheets using Google Apps. Perfect for saving paper and managing student work in Google Classroom
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This activity pairs perfectly with the book "Stand in My Shoes: Kids Learning About Empathy" by Bob Sornson. There is a video of the book being read aloud on YouTube. Kids identify what gives them certain emotions and learn that they can know how others feel by thinking "how would I feel if it were me?"
