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Mental Health Awareness Month and Children's Mental Health Week Ideas for the Classroom and Counseling
May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US and also kicks off Children's Mental Health Awareness Week in Canada. Here...
Why Gratitude is Important & Engaging Gratitude Activities for Kids
Why Gratitude in the Classroom? Gratitude- she's not in our curriculum and we only seem to put her on a...
The Benefits of Using Collaborative Mural Posters and Art Projects in the Classroom
Hold the phones... Have you tried collaborative posters with your class, lunch bunch or small counseling group yet? Collaborative murals...
How to Teach and Help Kids Cope with Effective and Healthy Coping Strategies
Long before singing ABCs and counting 123s, we marvel at the magical world of emotions. Teaching our kids coping strategies at a...
Mindful Winter Activities for Kids and Primary Classrooms on a Budget
My ideal winter can be described as immobile. Only breaking my hibernation for shopping breaks and to feed the chickadees,...
Gingerbread Week Ideas for Social Emotional Learning in the Primary Classroom
Gingerbread Week is typically celebrated shortly before Christmas/ winter break in elementary school. But don’t get your gumdrops in a tizzy if...
Benefits of Mindful Coloring for Kids and Counseling Groups
I used to think that making it rain coloring pages was a cop out- a lazy, uninspired way of filling gaps...
November Round-Up: The Best of Primary Social-Emotional Learning Tools
Welcome! You've been hit by the seasonal W-ALL (Wall [noun]: That awkward period between winter and fall when you no longer...
Creative Elementary School Bulletin Board Ideas for your Counseling Office
Bulletin boards- you either hate them or you love 'em. I remember the days of covering my face and running...
The Best YouTube Mindful Breathing Exercises to Calm Anxious Kids
Making room for pockets of mindfulness in your primary program is a no-brainer. One second- I'm pausing this blog post to...
How To Set Up a Calm Corner in Your Classroom or Home
In this blog post, we'll talk about why we have calm corners and how we can set one up to...