Mindfulness on the Move
Posted by Faith BarbutoCreating a Peace Corner in a room with no empty corners seemed like an impossible task but renovations to my classroom over the summer had me reimagining every bit of space. If you are not familiar, a Peace Corner is an area of the room filled with objects associated with mindfulness that can be visited to help regulate emotions and find peace. This is a self selected time to calm down when feeling angry, sad, frustrated or excited. We all have those uncomfortable feelings from time to time and in our classroom, I strive to show my students ways to manage them. Throughout the year we learn socio-emotional lessons as well as daily mindfulness practices that help us quiet our bodies and minds. One hundred or so targeted ads for rolling bookcases on social media gave me the idea to create a quiet corner that could be brought anywhere in the room! In the Mobile Peace Station students will find things they can use to remind them to breathe. We have mandalas for calm coloring, glitter jars to emulate how your mixed up body can settle with breaths and other objects we will learn to use to destress. With this age group everyone usually wants to try the new thing which makes the mobile station perfect because we all can use it and learn to add new strategies to our mindfulness tool kit!
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