SEL Home Activities (linked)

Description: A chart with ideas and activities for students to try each daily, or as they like, to engage in social-emotional and mindfulness practices at home. These are fun activities to do at home. Siblings and parents can join in too!

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt (link)

Description: Take a break from work and stress to reflect on things in your life you are thankful for. It can be something as simple as finding your favorite color in all the different places in your room or house.

Developing Resilience Skills (link)

Description: Feeling stressed or overwhelmed? Check out the resilience skills worksheet to pick one or two strategies that will help you this week, or even today! Determine where you have choice and can use a new strategy to relieve stress and worries.

Travel Zoo’s (linked) 20 Amazing Places You Can Visit Around the World

Description: Travel to interesting places around the world from the comfort of your own home. Enjoy the beauty of nature, art and architecture that our world has to offer. Places of interest on this site include: The Great Wall of China, San Diego Zoo, The Sistine Chapel and more! Grab a snack and go on an adventure!

Feeling Accomplished

Choose 2 things that you feel you haven’t been able to accomplish because you usually don’t have enough time and do them! Suggestions - clean and organize your closet, brush the dog every day, write a poem or a song, finish a book or art/craft project, etc. Only you know what you want to accomplish.

College Planning

Most of you know that you want to attend college/university after high school. You even have careers and dream schools in mind. But most of you haven’t looked at all of the possibilities for college that the U.S. and the world have to offer. Spend some time exploring your options with the College Board’s Big Future website (linked). You will be able to save your searches and use them when you start applying to college your senior year.

Positivity Challenge

Brighten someone's day! Go outside and take 3-5 photos of something in nature that makes you smile. Share your photos with three people (parents, teachers, distant family members, friends) with a message “Just like these things in nature, you make me feel happy!”

Letter to Your Future Self

While our stay at home experience has brought unique struggles, it also has given us time to get important perspectives in our lives. Write a letter to your future self sharing your thoughts about staying at home and advice on how to handle situations that may be out of your control later in life. Include five things you learned about yourself while staying at home and five hopes that you have for your future. Put the letter somewhere safe and plan to open the letter the day of your high school graduation.

SEL Bingo with friends or family

It’s hard to believe we are in week 5 of distance learning! Congratulate yourself! This week, challenge 3 of your friends or family members to an SEL Bingo game using the SEL Home Activities(linked) that was shared in week 1. Fill in the squares across, down, diagonal. Plan a celebration for the winner for when we are no longer in shelter in place.

Career Exploration

Through the California Career Zone (linked), you can start planning for your future career. Take an assessment to see what your career interests are, research your interests to create a pathway, develop a budget to make sure your interests can support your life plan, and document your plan, all in one convenient website. You can use this information your senior year of high school to help you choose colleges.

Reach Out and Connect

Maintaining connections with those near and far has been hard during shelter in place. Reach out and connect with someone this week who you haven’t interacted with in a while. Wave to your neighbors. Schedule time with a friend or family member to talk on the phone. Write a letter.

Self Care in Action

Start a digital “Warm & Fuzzy” file. Fill it with compliments and kind words you have received, good memories and favorite photos. Looking at this file when you are feeling sad or overwhelmed will help to lift your spirits and get you moving forward.

Stress Relief and Relaxation Techniques (linked)

Visit the website linked above to explore different types of relaxation techniques to reduce stress. This includes breathing strategies, muscle relaxation techniques, guided meditation and more! The website includes descriptions of each technique as well as some audio-guide resources. Relax and Enjoy!

Mindful Movement

Have you ever tried yoga? It can be a powerful, yet calming, way to engage the mind and body. Check out Yoga with Adrienne's channel on YouTube (linked) for a variety of yoga practices, appropriate for all levels. Try it out and plan to feel great afterwards! Namaste.