Aloha Rebecca,
Thank you for your interest. Enclose are three lessons for your special education class to calm anxiety, attention and focus…to begin.
Please remember if children are hyper and have been sitting or not active for more than 30 minutes they may need to get some of this energy out…Hopping in place with “Magic Zippers” (their mouth closed), Running as fast as you can (with magic zippers)… or getting outside are some options.
For:
Calming
Home Breath Lesson on bellies, with knees bend rocking side to side will help calm anxiety. The rocking motion with long exhalations helps relax indivdual from the inside and outside.
I’m going to send you the combo lesson with Personal Bubbles so you can use the Listening Lesson as well. Don’t be alarmed… it looks long but the science and notes take up a big portion.
We did a little of Personal Bubble at the teacher’s presentation. If any of your children came to the winter or spring break session, they know Personal Bubbles and Home Breath. We also taught this to children with Hawaii Resources for Learning, partnering with Schools Attune.
Are their shoulders are up near their ears? If so we need to do more with their bodies and movement.
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Listening
Listening Bubbles Lesson is a good beginning. Listening is much more complex than many understand. Listening and hearing are two different things related to our internal dialogue and what is being said in the immediate environment.
This internal dialogue can be related to muscular comfort, sensory over load, emotion or physical imbalance.
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FocusFocus is related to many parts of the body, alignment of eyes in the head affecting the neck and comfort in posture.
Can you give me more information about what happens when they lose focus? What do they do? How long are they focused? Are they sitting in chairs or on the floor?
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How to Do the lessons: Focus on the “Intention box” (grey box at the top of the lesson)
Golden 4 Keys of How to Deliver the lessons:
1. Go SLOW
2. Breath Naturally
3. Patience (associate concept in movement to other circumstances)
4. Wonder (open your awareness to spontaneous behavior and how to adapt into the lesson)
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Catherine Rosasco MitchellP.S. Bloggers… feel free to email us to get free lessons
