Over dinner practice meaningful conversations with kids based on the conversation cards below.

https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/FDP-convostarters.p

Let's take a trip together! Check out any of these fun adventures! Post on IHE's facebook page where you went today <3 I think I am going to take Pierre (my french bulldog) to the San Diego Zoo! I haven't been since I was a kid. Parents please feel free to join us on our adventures or kids can do this on their own too!

Don't forget to check out the fun games, activities, and stories that go along with the tours!

Virtual Field Trips:

National Parks Virtual Tour

Museum Virtual Tours

San Diego Zoo

National Aquarium

Seattle Aquarium

Planetarium - Star Atlas

Boston Children’s Museum

The Smithsonian

360 Cities - Panoramic Pictures

Great Wall of China

Space Mountain at Disney!!!! OK this one was a lot of fun and made me realize I was waiting in line for hours for a 3 minute ride!

Splash Mountain at Disney!!!!

Star Wars Ride and Show!!!!

Let's get grounded. There has been so much change in the past few weeks that we need to honor our bodies and minds. At some point today, try to make every effort possible to give yourself some YOU time and do yoga with Cosmic Kids.

Today, we go on a walk. Breaks are so important to maintain mental and physical health. It is so easy to get caught up in our school work and forget to take a break. Even a water break. Remember water is also very important to staying healthy. Go for a walk, work out, do something to get your body moving and get some fresh air...remember to maintain a 6 foot distance from others <3

Breaks are OK. Breaks are essential to being productive. Give yourself permission to take one. Even if it is a 10 minute walk with the dog. This is me telling you it's OK to take a break.

As we spend even more time together it can become hard to remember positives in each other. Let’s give it a try.

1. Take a piece of paper and trace out your hand.

2. In each finger of the drawing, go around and have a family member write in a compliment until all the fingers are filled with compliments.

3. In the middle give yourself a compliment!

Give your parent(s)/guardians, AND siblings each a (or more than one) compliment.

Today we are going to review not biting the hook. If you are home with siblings, have you noticed that sometimes siblings will say or do mean or irritating things to you? Have you noticed you do the same thing to them? Well, I call this fishing. When people are fishing, I imagine them baiting a hook with a put down, tease, mean comment, or a dirty look, just to name a few. The fisherman is hoping you will bite the hook. What does it mean to bite the hook? It means you give a reaction and let the fisherman know that they have upset you. When you bite the hook, you give your power away and let the fisherman control you. This applies at school, too. Think about all the times people fish at school. Do you bite the hook at home or at school? Do you know some ways to avoid biting the hook?

Watch the following videos: Grandma Rose's Neighborhood: #1 A Tease is a Hook and #2 How the fish learn to swim around the hook.

Grandma Rose's Neighborhood #1 A Tease is a hookYouTube video ‪6 minutes‬

Grandma Rose's Neighborhood #2 A story about how the fish learn to swim around the hooks.YouTube video ‪7 minutes‬

After watching the videos, write down what techniques you like and are going to try to not bit the hook. Then share these with your family.

“You like to….Move It!” (Courtesy of Madagascar Movie). Put on Your Favorite Jams (appropriate of course) and Have fun! Be silly and dance like no one is watching :) This can be done together or alone...I am doing my dancing with my dog. If you need some motivation check out Go Noodle.

With the gloomy weather today let's take advantage of being inside and get back to our basics in mindfulness. By using our mindfulness skills we are able to retain and engage in a more meaningful way because our bodies are calm and collected. Today we are going to do diaphragmatic breathing (you may know this as belly breathing). Click on these links to explore examples of belly breathing exercises. Balloon breathing, Belly Breathing Instructional Video, and Belly Breathing Song.

Yesterday we focused on the basics of being able to get our physical body on a mindful level in order to learn about ourselves and others. Belly breathing can help up regulate our physical bodies so we can use our brains to focus on social and emotional learning. Today, let's focus on another important part of getting to know ourselves, our emotions. Here are some videos that help us understand and recognize emotions. I wonder what your top three emotions are that you feel the most? What brings about these emotions? If any are negative how can we change those to positive emotions?

Why do we have feelings?

Feelings Song

The Way I Feel Book

Emotions Guessing Game

Guess that Emotion with Inside Out

With all of us being stuck at home we are getting quite aquatinted with one another. This also means we may be starting to drive each other crazy resulting in BIG emotions we may not normally have. Please watch the videos below to learn more and provide strategies to control our emotions.

Why do I Loose Control of my Emotions?

Five Incredibly Fun Games to Teach Self-Regulation

Using your Senses to Calm Down

Tips to control BIG emotions

Zones of Regulation Overview - Use this page to check in with your student to determine what zone they are in. Then strategize how to move back to the green zone.

Let's be honest. We all have feelings of sadness, worry, fear, feeling like we aren't "good enough". It WAS terrifying doing all these videos and critiquing myself. BUT as I did more I realized I am unique, and an individual. That is what makes me AWESOME. It's expected to feel this way. Especially now. It's when we stay in those feelings that it becomes a problem. Our brains start to believe the negative thoughts we tell ourselves. It's hard to change the thoughts because our brains are wired to keep us safe and protected so it focuses on the negative thoughts.

Unfortunately, over time and evolution, we no longer need to fear running from a saber-tooth tiger. But our brains don't know that. So anything that has been negative, our brains hold onto.That means negative thoughts and or things people has said to us stick in our brains. The below videos are intended to help break you and me both of these negative thoughts, and build our self-esteem. The goal is that after watching them we will have ideas of how to change those negative thoughts to something more positive building confidence and resiliency.

The Reflection of Me

The Kid's Guide to Confidence

Be Yourself Song

Pep Talk from Kid President

"I'm Good" Lyric Video

3 Tips to Boost your Confidence

from that and focus on the good. The below video helps to understand what positive affirmations are and how they turn into positive thoughts. There is also an activity in the video. The below are links to websites with positive affirmations that you can easily copy onto a sticky note or something else that you can hang up.

101 Positive Affirmations for Kids

Daily Affirmations Video

So far we have learned how to doing our breathing to calm our brains and our bodies. We have also learned what feelings are and how they impact us. Then, we learned about self-esteem and building confidence with positive affirmations. Today we talk about perseverance. This means that you are able to wait and work through difficulties, whether they have to do with your mind, your body, or your emotions.

Amazing Kids of Character: Perseverance

How to turn failures into robots podcast

The Story of Pip

Alright it's Friday and the weather is BEAUTIFUL. Here is a fun activity for to always remember this experience that we all shared in the beginning of 2020.

Last week we focused on ourself and being able to better understand and control our emotions. This week we move onto how we impact others, starting with gratitude. Gratitude has literally been shown to help impact our happiness and is directly linked to social and emotional wellness. This in turn impacts how we relate to others. Today in the am or before bed, write down three things you are grateful for. Take this a step further and keep your gratitude in a jar to look back on in hard times.

Gratitude Story

How Gratitude can Change Your Life

Today we talk about conflict resolution. This is something we may be seeing quite a bit as we are in close quarters with our family members. The goal is to be able to work together to resolve conflict and make meaningful changes to how we work with one another.

hammerhead_resource_guide.pdf

Activity_Pack_-_Hammerhead.pdf

Hammerhead_affirmation_poster.pdf

Mad_Matters_-_Hammerhead.pdf

Today we talk about one of the most popular and prevalent topics in today's world, Kindness. Kindness is not just about being kind to others but also ourselves. In fact, the kinder we are to ourselves the kinder we will be to others. Also, be sure to check the Principal's Blog on Monday for our acts of kindness to the community. BE PART OF THE KINDNESS MOVEMENT!

Podcast: Joshua Helps His Community

Podcast: Discover the Superpower of Kindness

20 Things We Should Say More Often

Kids for Peace: Acts of Kindness Ideas while in Isolation

Today we are going to talk about something that can be hard for some of us to do. Empathy. Sure we are good at sympathizing with people by saying oh I'm so sorry. Empathy however is getting into the dark space or the hole with someone and be a listening ear. Being able to say yep, it is a really hard place you are in right now. Just being with the person going through something. Watch the Brene Brown video to learn about the difference between empathy and sympathy.

For this Lesson I decided not to do a video because Brene Brown does such a spectacular job explaining Empathy and I want you to hear her words.

Empathy vs. Sympathy

Then think about these questions:

When could we empathize with a friend?

When do you want someone to just listen to you and not give advice?

How can you use that experience to understand how another person might feel when going through a hard time?

GRIT is something that each and everyone of us has within. It is what gives us strength to face our fears and drives us to be successful. Sometimes GRIT is hard to get but not out of reach. We all are gritty and have the potential to reach out goals if we never give up.

GRIT: Traits that Matter for School, Life, and Work

GRIT: For the Adults

GRIT Scale

GRIT Activities for Kids

Understanding a Growth Mindset:

Discover a Growth Mindset and How to Believe in Yourself (Podcast)

Growth Mindset Videos for k-2

Growth Mindset Song

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset Rap

Activities to build a Growth Mindset:

10 Growth Mindset Activities

4-Weeks to a Growth Mindset