The Mindfulness Teacher

🌟1 minute activities for TEACHERS to practise Mindfulness with their classes🌟‬ ‪#MindfulMarch 🧠‬ Tues 13th: Belly Breathing Put your hands on your belly. As you breathe deeply in, your belly should get bigger and your hands rise. Slowly breathe out and repeat 12 times. ❗️People usually breathe shallowly and the air fills their chest. Deep breathingContinue reading “Belly Breathing”

🌟1 minute activities for TEACHERS to practise Mindfulness with their classes🌟‬ ‪#MindfulMarch 🧠‬ Mon 12th: High Five! ✋ Silently, think of 5 things you can see 👀 right now. 4 things you can hear👂3 things you can feel 🤚2 things you can smell 👃 1 thing you can taste 👅 What did your class notice?

🌟1 minute activities for TEACHERS to practise Mindfulness with their classes🌟‬ ‪#MindfulMarch 🧠‬ Fri 9th: Touchy Feely 🤚 Play some calm music. Roll up your sleeves. Gently stroke or gently scratch the inside of your arm, up and down. Be as light as a feather. Does it tickle? Tingle? What did it feel like in your fingers?Continue reading “Touchy Feely”

‪🌟TEACHERS: Practise Mindfulness with your class for just 1 minute a day! 🌟 #MindfulMarch 🧠‬ 8th: 20:20 vision 👀 Play some calm music 🎵 Ask the children to sit in silence and spend 1 minute looking around the room and to spot something they’ve never noticed before. Maybe it’s a mark on the carpet, or a burglar alarm onContinue reading “20:20 Vision”

#MindfulMarch 🧠 7th: Silky Silence 🧘‍♀️ Ask the class to sit and close their eyes. Stay silent for 1 minute and count how many different sounds they can hear 👂 Cars? 🚗 The playground? Birds? 🐦 🌟TAG A TEACHER! 👨‍🏫 

🌟TEACHERS! Want a calmer classroom?📚 🍎Today I will start #MindfulMarch (better late then never!) where I will post a 1 minute #Mindfulnessactivity each day, for teachers to do in the classroom! 📣Follow this blog for the daily activity  

#MindfulMay week 4! 🌸🌼 🌬This week is a simple breathing exercise.  🌬Follow the diagram to breathe in for 3 seconds, hold for 3 seconds, breathe out for 3 seconds and hold again for 3 seconds.  🌬Repeat this cycle for 1 minute.  🌬 To add to the atmosphere, play some calm background music and put thisContinue reading “Mindful May: Week Four!”

BODY SCAN: Audio Recording This week is Mental Health Awareness Week across the U.K.! Mental health has become much more of a concern over the last few years as children are put under so much pressure with tests and social media. 1 in 10 children in the U.K. have a mental health problem – thatContinue reading “Mindful May: Week Three”

Attachment – Mindful May Week 2 Record Sheet ‘The Perfect Place’ This week’s mindfulness activity is called a visualisation. We will relax our bodies and minds by imagining we are somewhere peaceful. This can be anywhere, it is our ‘perfect place’. Below is the script for the teacher or teaching assistant to read out to theContinue reading “Mindful May: Week Two!”

Mindful May Week 1 Record Sheet #MindfulMay is a chance for teachers to introduce Mindfulness to their classes. You don’t need to know what mindfulness is (see previous blog post for a quick explanation) or to have practised it yourself, these will be super-quick, 2 minute activities to do throughout May to improve your class’sContinue reading “Mindful May: Week 1”