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    Mindful Morning Routine

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    Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

    Lesson Length: 15 - 20 mins

    Topic: Mindfulness

    Grade Level: 4, 5, 6

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will use a comic to guide themselves through a short mindful practice.

    Know Before You Start: Students should know the definition of mindfulness and how it can impact emotional health.

    Hook:

    • Discuss stress.

      • What are some things might be stressful?

      • How do you cope when you are feeling overwhelmed or stressed? 

    • Explain that all it takes to recenter yourself is as easy as counting backwards from five! Let’s begin in 5...4...3...2...1

    Activity:

    • Print or display the sample comic. 

    • Ask students to think about how they are feeling both in their brains and in their bodies. Let them share.

    • Walk the class through each panel of the comic, practicing the mindfulness techniques in each.

    • Have students create a comic using the mindful practices shown in the sample comic.

    Closure:

    • Ask students to reflect on how they are feeling after these mindfulness activities.
      • Do they feel different than before they did it? How so?

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.

    • Provide visual representations of stressful situations. 

    • Display key words to describe feelings in our brains vs. body.

    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

    • Suggested Readings:

      • Mind Bubbles by Heather Krantz. (Grades 4-5)

      • Now by Antoniette Portis. (Grades 4-6)

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