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Virtual Activities
Virtual Calming Room: Try some new strategies to relax!
Time for Kids Launches Free Digital Library for the Rest of the School Year
20 Online Learning Resources to Get You Through School Closures
Virtual Field Trips for the Whole Family
Josh Gad Reads Bedtime Stories for Kids
Time to Come in, Bear: A Children's Story About Social Distancing
Teaching Mindfulness provides students with strategies they can use to self manage when experiencing heightened emotions.
Mindfulness and the Brain
This video explains how mindfulness can influence the pre-frontal cortex, hippothalamus, and the amygdala
Free Online: Mindfulness Class for Kids!
Classes will be held on:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
10am PDT / 1pm EDT
Sign up for Zoom call-in instructions
We are designing these LIVE online mindfulness classes with K-5 students in mind – AND please know that students and adults of all ages are welcome to participate. We are aware that many families are away from school and work, and we hope this is a resource that families can enjoy together.
What to expect:
Fun and interactive activities for kids such as mindful eating, movement, and more
30 minutes of mindfulness and a restful break from the busyness of daily life
Experienced teachers from the Mindful Schools Training Team
Mindful Schools is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that relies on the generosity of our community to make these programs available to children and families. If you’d like to support these ongoing classes, please consider a donation to Mindful Schools.
Find your local number: https://mindfulschools.zoom.us/u/aep8ZtgkiI
Playworks: #PlayAtHome Initiative
Playworks is hosting live recesses on their Facebook page every day at 12pm. You, your students, and their families can tune into their Facebook page to engage in a live recess with a Playworks Coach, who will facilitate fun games to get kids active at home.
Julia Cook is an award winning author for her children's books on social development.
How are you feeling?
Take a moment, feel your breath, feel your body, and see if you can recognize and identify the emotions and feelings you are experiencing at this moment. Do not judge them or try to get rid of them or transform them. Whatever feelings you are experiencing are completely normal reactions to completely abnormal situations. Just breath.
Once you can name an emotion or two, or twelve, try to identify the next best feeling thought. Would it feel good to move your body? Would it feel good to spend time with family? Or call a friend? Or do something with your hands like cook or organize something, make a project or fix something? Take a look at this list and see which category stands out today for you and do it.
Moving forward, select an activity once daily for good self-care. Introduce this moment to breath and connect with your body and emotions to your housemates and make it a daily household habit or ritual to practice good mental health hygiene during social distancing or quarantine. You wash your hands multiple times a day, take each 20 second pause as an opportunity to breath, connect with your body and name what you are feeling. Good mental health hygiene is that easy- and also that important!
Beliefs (values, beliefs, self-statements)
Affect (expression of feelings)
Social (time with others)
Imagination (creativity, humor)
Cognition (information gathering, organizing)
Physical (for your body and your mind)