For Students

Missing you...

Hello Big Island Students,

I miss you so much and you are in my thoughts and heart each day. I look forward to the day we see each other again at Big Island Elementary. In the meantime, I am hoping you are using the coping strategies we have learned this year as well as others. Below, you will find some activities and/or ideas for your to consider. If you have any other ideas and/or would like to share pictures of you doing some of these activities, (or others), or a need your BIES family can help you with, please send them to me at bridget.mathwin@bedford.k12.va.us. I will be checking my email at least twice a day.

S.T.A.R. Breathing

Drain Breathing

Balloon Breathing

Bunny Breathing

All of the Breathing Techniques in one Video

This website has activities for all ages, including adults. CareerTown has activities most appropriate for grades K-3. KidsSearch allows you to complete personal assessments and connects them to possible careers. There are also coloring pages and other information.

vacareerview.org/

Ideas to Help Cope...

Taking Care of Yourself

  • Eat healthy food

  • Get enough sleep

  • Take baths/showers

  • Change your clothing

  • Brush your teeth

  • Brush your hair

  • Do some deep breathing

  • Use the tense release exercises

  • Get some exercise - walk, run, play ball, dance

  • Talk with a family member about your feelings and concerns; get your questions answered

Keeping Your Academics Up

  • Read daily

  • Practice your math facts (Use the games your teachers have taught you)

  • Try to learn something new , such as...

    • Research a person, place or thing you have always wanted to know about

    • Use the websites Ms. Riggles has shown you to learn to draw something new ... for me that is going to be anything

    • Use videos to learn something like knitting, crochet, or even a new card game

  • Write each day - whether you write a journal entry, a letter, note, list of things you are grateful for, a poem, play, or a story

Think of Others

  • Do your chores without being asked

  • Clean up your toys when you are done with them

  • Do an extra chore to help out the family

  • Go over, with permission, to an elderly neighbor's yard and clean it up a bit

  • Help clean up your own yard

  • Draw a picture or write a letter to others

  • Know that everyone is dealing with all of the changes and give them a bit of grace and space to deal with feelings

Activities that can just be fun

  • Play a board game

  • Create and play a board game

  • Make puppets out of paper or old socks and create a theater show

  • Make up a dance or just dance to music

  • Read a book

  • Play a sport - like basketball or football with family in the backyard

  • Complete a puzzle

  • Take trash (with permission) and create an art project

  • Color, paint, draw or some other form of artwork - there are YouTube videos available to teach you

  • Make up a song