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The Benefits of Using Collaborative Mural Posters and Art Projects in the Classroom

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...

Mindful Winter Activities for Kids and Primary Classrooms on a Budget

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 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...

October Round-Up: The Best of Primary Social-Emotional Learning Tools

October Round-Up: The Best of Primary Social-Emotional Learning Tools

If it smells like children and you’re feeling like you put the hag in haggard lately, you might be ready...

Social Emotional Learning April Activities for the Primary Classroom

Social Emotional Learning April Activities for the Primary Classroom

  Spring is here! And by that I mean dull, dreary weather and a reveal of ghastly little treasures that...

February Round Up: The Best of Social-Emotional Learning Tools

February Round Up: The Best of Social-Emotional Learning Tools

  Ah, February. The grueling grind that January brought has finally subsided, leaving you to identify as one of two...

Why Your Early Learning Program Needs Dramatic Play

Why Your Early Learning Program Needs Dramatic Play

What is dramatic play? Dramatic play, or pretend play, is the act of using our surroundings and resources, to take on...

Reinforcing Rules in your Primary Classroom Back from Winter Break

Reinforcing Rules in your Primary Classroom Back from Winter Break

  And just like that, another winter holiday break has come and gone. The majority of us educators have successfully avoided our...

January Round-Up: The Best of Social-Emotional Learning Tools for Primary Students and Counseling Groups

January Round-Up: The Best of Social-Emotional Learning Tools for Primary Students and Counseling Groups

  [In a jazzy Michael Bublé croon] It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new year for...

December Round-Up: The Best of Social-Emotional Learning Tools

December Round-Up: The Best of Social-Emotional Learning Tools

All may not be calm & bright, and they may only be silent at night, but we can do our...

5 Mindful Parenting Tips for the Holidays

5 Mindful Parenting Tips for the Holidays

From Christmas to birthdays, holidays and mindfulness do not need to be mutually exclusive. Modeling mindfulness during the next big celebration starts...