If you enjoyed my BAM post on Mindful Walking, please try a second experimental reflection activity with your class. When I created this new activity, I thought I was asking too much from students, teachers, and myself. So I attempted the slow walking kindness reflection activity (yes, you heard that correctly) and was totally surprised after completing the body-and-mind journey. Check it out yourself to see if it works for you. Follow the step-by-step instructions that will come up in the article and experience the effects/affects of the multi-sensory exercise good-for-kids-and-adults.
"The Slow Walking Kindness Reflection Activity for Kids"
Want to communicate with your students about what you believe are crucial ideas for living in this scary brave new world? Experiment: Make up your own original lessons so kids know where you're coming from, loud and clear.
"Here I Am, Here I Am: A Tale of Two Worlds" is a surreal story activity that shows children connections between reading life and real life. In fact, isn't this one key continuing and open-ended conversation in education: to relate literature to life? Even more important: Isn't the idea a road to self-motivated readers? Many articles you see describe how to engage kids in reading, but, for the most part, have little to do with the real deal, intrinsic motivation, which is, in my opinion, and also, supported by the research, fundamental to developing leisure-time and lifelong readers.
Mindful Walk Activities Take Students "Places"