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August 1, 2015

Summer Walks- An Act Of Mindfulness

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  • art, Awakening Joy in Kids, fine motor skills, loving kindness, mindfulness, self regulation
Walking Meditation Summer time and the living is easy! Well, not always, as the days seem to slip by so quickly.   We start to worry about summer ending too soon. We wonder how will it be when the children are back at school?  In being in the past and future, we […]
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July 4, 2015

Gratitude, mindfulness and sharing in an electronic age!

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  • art, Classroom Lessons, Gratitude, Gratitude Practices, mindfulness, Parents, caregivers, Uncategorized
Grab your iPads, grab your phones, grab your cameras and go hunting.  Children like nothing more than clicking on their electronics, so why not have an assignment that brings mindful seeing, gratitude, art, sharing and their love of electronic media together? Lesson: Have children look out into their world and […]
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October 18, 2014

Simple, Simple, Simple = Gratitude = Monday Morning!

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  • art, fine motor skills, Gratitude Practices, mathmatics, Parents, caregivers, preschool, Uncategorized
Needed: A paper plate, scissors, pen, a bit of craft paper, a split pin and a grateful heart! Curriculum Connections: math language arts fine motor skills social and emotional wellbeing art Simply put, this little spin dial creates a wonderful way for children to practice gratitude, fine motor skills and […]
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September 30, 2014

Art From The Heart

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  • art, Classroom Lessons, Gratitude, Parents, caregivers
Wondering how to bring a practice of the heart into art this Fall?   I gathered horse chestnuts under the huge canopy of a tree on the beach this week.  The chestnuts are covered in a spiny covering.   When split open by the autumn weather, the inside is revealed […]
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August 26, 2014

Mark Nepo inspires Michele to fill a journal at the Wake Up Festival.

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  • art, Book reviews, Classroom Lessons, compassion, Gratitude Practices, Writing
Mark Nepo is an exceptional poet and inspiring speaker.  My fingers were literally sore from writing down “nuggets”! What struck me though, was the framework in which we generated ideas.  It worked for me and the other participants and I am looking forward to sharing it with my students. Here […]
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August 26, 2014

What an incredible week of learning. I am ready to share some ideas!

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        Wake Up Festival Colorado 2014 – With Jack Kornfield   I felt like a kid in a candy store: so much sweetness and so much to choose from.  The Wake Up Festival is a five-day immersion experience in personal and collective transformation. It’s the largest and […]
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July 8, 2014

Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together: Lesson directly related to Dr. Rick Hanson’s book Hardwired for Happiness

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  • art, Classroom Lessons, mindfulness, neuroplasticity, self regulation
Hardwiring Happiness Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together Curriculum Connections Art Science Social and emotional learning   Today we spoke about how neurons that fire together wire together.   We asked ourselves what we wanted to wire in our own brains…   Students were given electrician’s wire, masking tape, paperclips, and […]
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