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.
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