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This Supporting Emotional Wellbeing in Children: Calming Your Mind instructional video also includes:
Follow along with a quick video to learn the skill, Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1. Young learners practice mindfulness to focus on themselves and their surroundings and calm their nerves. A narrator takes viewers through each step.
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Concepts
mindfulness, meditation, self-awareness, emotions, emotional development, identifying emotions, social-emotional learning, Social & Emotional Learning, expressing feelings, feelings, the five senses, sense of hearing, sense of light, sense of sight, sense of smell, sense of taste, sense of touch, sense of vision
Instructional Ideas
- Print the included PDFs to display steps for mindfulness
- Practice mindfulness as a class every day; when kids enter the room in the morning or after lunch
Classroom Considerations
- The fourth video in a series of six about mindfulness
- The pretend newscast may trigger emotions in your class
- This video is hosted on YouTube
Pros
- Encourages pupils to practice mindfulness every day
- Includes engaging graphics that appear like a comic book
Cons
- None