Take Your Students on a Hayride
Give your students a mindful movement break to light up learning. Each slow breath soothes the nervous system and stimulates the brain. Watch the video below to gain movement ideas. Enjoy!
1. Step onto the Wagon - As you are seated, bring one knee up to your chest. Rotate your ankles as you sit tall and breathe. Switch sides.
2. Sunset Breath - Stretch your arms over your head as your breathe in. Slowly arc your arms down to your sides as you breathe out.
3. Mindfully get off the Wagon - Stretch both hands over your head as you lean forward. To mindfully stand up, press both heels into the ground and lift yourself up one inch from your chair. Hold here for 3 breaths. Rise to stand up.
4. Fall Leaf Pose - Stand tall with hands stretched over your head like the letter V. As the wind starts to blow, sway side to side. Breathe deep.
5. Pick Apples- Reach tall on your tippy toes as you search for apples. Stretch your body in any way that feels good. Pick an apple and place it by your feet.
4. Mindfully sit down on the floor.
6. Place Apples in Basket - In seated pose, lean back and place apples from one side to the the other.
7. Stand up as slowly.
8. Scarecrow Pose - With right foot on the ground, lift the left foot and place on the inside of the right calf or thigh. Balance here and make a fall face of your choice. You could share a happy, scary, worried, calm, or angry face. Stay here and breathe for 3 deep, slow breaths. Switch sides.
9. Pumpkin Pose - Sit in your chair and make yourself into a ball. Add a stem with one of your fingers, Relax and breathe.
Powerful You ( Kindergarten - Grade 1) is designed for its readers to easily find guidance and support for struggles children are experiencing at school or home. Created from over 30 years of educational experience, this colorful, hand-illustrated book will simply bring joy and comfort.
This book is a tool that educators and families use to teach 26 social skills. These storytelling lessons engage the brain by including role-playing, movement, thinking maps, games, and positive self-talk. Educators will recognize these 26 A-Z Powerful You kids such as G – Goodsport Grady who pitches in and shows teamwork. Other lessons include honesty, independence, self-esteem, responsibility, taking turns, waiting to speak, ignoring distractions, and many more.
Lessons in Powerful You follow the ASCA National Standards, which were developed by The American School Counselor Association. It is a great resource for school counseling lesson plans, or counseling resources. Powerful You is a tool to help transform any classroom or home environment by providing a tool to address concerns like bullying at the core. Classroom Social Skill signs that correspond with every A-Z lesson are also available.
Created by an educator who has worked with children for over 30 years, Powerful You discusses sensitive school and home issues to include:
Problem-solving
Teamwork
Listening
Self-confidence
Intermediate Bundle – Powerful You Book, 26 Educator Cards & 26 Classroom Skill Signs (grades 2 and up)
Primary Educator Bundle – 26 Educator Cards & 26 Classroom Skill Signs (grades K-1)
Digital Primary Brag Tags - 26 Brag Tags for primary students (grades k-1)
Digital Primary Activity Sheets - 26 Social and emotional thinking maps for writing
Breathe and Stretch on the Beach - Yoga - (grades k and up)
Breathe and Stretch Poster
Self-Talk Power When You’re in a Pickle - A 5-Step Problem Solving Guide for Individual Counseling (grades 3 and up)
Divorce Cookie Game for Changing Family Groups (grades k and up)
Hoberman Breathing Ball
Tennessee Transition Chime
Powerful You Feelings Bag
50 I am stickers
Feelings Chart
Free online planning calendar with character trait theme
Free online breathe and stretch videos (26 primary & 26 intermediate)
Data collecting online surveys - primary and intermediate
Breathe and Stretch on the Beach is the second children's book from beloved author, Julie Frizzi. A twist on the standard book, it is an interactive listening game that can be used in the classroom or at home by teachers, counselors, parents or anyone working with children ages 3 and up. After learning poses, leader will name poses in any order to encourage deep breathing, stretching, and relaxing.
Participants Will
•Understand and use controlled breathing
•Practice personal space by moving safely without touching others
•Use self-control by using nonverbal communication only
•Transfer focus to life
•Enhance self-awareness
•Change negative self-talk to positive self-talk
•Increase Joy, Strength, Gratitude & Confidence
Here are some of the poses from Breathe and Stretch on the Beach:
• Coconut Tree, Eagle, Airplane: I am focused
• Sports Boat, Charge Your Battery, Flying Fish: I am full of energy
•Hurricane: I step aside for others
• Crab: I let my light shine
• Paddleboard: I am responsible for what I say, think and do
• Swordfish: I stick with it
• Seahorse: I can change
• Mermaid, Sand Dollar, Starfish: I am calm
•Friends Eating Oysters: I am a good friend
•Sailor Salute, Captian on Deck, Captain's Parrot: I believe in me
• Sun, Wave, Coconut: I am grateful
• Volcano: I am a problem solver
• Shark: I am fierce
• Coral: I am unique
• Surfer dudette 1 & 2: I flow with life
• Lightning bolt: I am powerful
Powerful You is a grab and go counseling tool loaded with short and easy-to-use units for group or classroom counseling. Each of the twenty-six lessons share a true story with turn and talk prompts for student reflection. Inspiring quotes, activities, and tips are included in the book for optional lesson extension. Use the laminated Powerful You Role-Play Cards for story telling and acting out the desired behaviors. Classroom signs are included to leave a lesson footprint in visited classrooms.The themed units were created by a school counselor who listened and supported children for over 35 years. These lessons, which follow the ASCA national standards, discuss sensitive school and home issues from a child’s perspective and include:
Problem-solving
Teamwork
Peer pressure
Self-confidence
Friendship
Bullying
Divorce
Grief and more…