Growth Mindset

Grow-ga (or Growth Mindset Yoga) is a physical activity that pairs up yoga with positive affirmations. It's a good concentration exercise, an exciting physical activity, and a fun way to teach kids about making constructive self-statements.

Choose some fairly basic yoga poses you know that learners would be comfortable doing, but will still find challenging. The next step is to attach growth mindset statements to each movement. Here are some ideas you can expand on:

• I work hard

• I am a creative person

• I am always focused

• I have an open-mind

• I care about others

• I enjoy learning and discovering

As kids perform each pose one after the other, have them channel all their good feelings as they call out the statements together while briefly holding the poses.

Accomplishment Jar

Achieving goals and accomplishing our objectives helps us grow and build on success There are lots of supportive ways kids can share those accomplishments and celebrate them with others.

To do this, get a large jar (large enough to get your and into) or a small fishbowl. Next, make slips of paper with these questions: What's one thing that I accomplished today? How do I feel about it, and why?

Leave a small box beside the jar containing these slips and a few pencils. Now, direct your kids to fill out one or two every day along with their name, and place them into the jar.

At the end of every week or so, you can take the slips out and create a pile for each learners' name. Then hand them back to each student so they can review their accomplishments and celebrate how much they've grown and what they've learned. You can even let kids share their achievements orally if they so choose.