- Introduce yoga, mindfulness, breathing
As you guide your students through the stretches, breathes, and poses, make sure you remind them of the purpose of these activities. For instance, "These activities are meant to help you stay focused for the remainder of class. Maintaining a yoga pose will get the blood flowing and breathing will get more oxygen to your brain to help you stay alert."
This way, students will know that these activities are not just for fun. They are meant to help them stay calm, focused, and alert.
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- Hoberman breathing
Here is an idea of how you could introduce this as a breathing exercise in your classroom:
"Begin to come into stillness, letting go of the morning and all that has taken place before coming to school. If you are in a chair or on the floor, sit up nice and tall. If you are standing, press your feet into the earth and lengthen through the spine. Let’s begin with shoulder circles…taking our shoulders up to the ears …back and down. Do this two more times.
Breathe in and lift the shoulders up to the ears…and breathe out as you bring your shoulders down. One more time. Now begin to watch the breathing ball, or close your eyes and begin. Breathing in…let the belly puff up, and breathing out…let the belly move back toward the spine. Again, breathing in…and out. Six more times. Inhaling and exhaling…. Five more….Take a moment to notice how your body and mind feel after taking eight deep breaths. Know that at anytime today when you feel frustrated, angry or nervous, you can come back to your breath and find centre."
Introducing these breathing exercises to the class as a whole will help students understand how to use the Hoberman ball as a tool to help them calm down when they are in need.
"Begin to come into stillness, letting go of the morning and all that has taken place before coming to school. If you are in a chair or on the floor, sit up nice and tall. If you are standing, press your feet into the earth and lengthen through the spine. Let’s begin with shoulder circles…taking our shoulders up to the ears …back and down. Do this two more times.
Breathe in and lift the shoulders up to the ears…and breathe out as you bring your shoulders down. One more time. Now begin to watch the breathing ball, or close your eyes and begin. Breathing in…let the belly puff up, and breathing out…let the belly move back toward the spine. Again, breathing in…and out. Six more times. Inhaling and exhaling…. Five more….Take a moment to notice how your body and mind feel after taking eight deep breaths. Know that at anytime today when you feel frustrated, angry or nervous, you can come back to your breath and find centre."
Introducing these breathing exercises to the class as a whole will help students understand how to use the Hoberman ball as a tool to help them calm down when they are in need.
- Help students name their emotions.
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- Teach positive self talk