The Right from the Start team looks forward to sharing mental health inspiration with you.
"It can be a real place, or it can be a pretend place. You decide what your special place looks like and feels like. When you’re in your special place, you feel exactly the way you like to feel. You can feel happy or calm, safe or strong. How do you feel in your special place? Enjoy the good feelings you have in your special place."
Special Place activity, Mini Mindmasters:
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My husband and I totally benefited from setting aside some dedicated time to chat with Kate and work out some family strategies. Kate helped us to identify our own goals and values and how to ensure that we’re setting ourselves up better to honour them.
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Artwork by Vanessa, gr.7 student
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Grade 1's use their imagination to think about their Special Place
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This
Mini Mindmaster activity
guides children to imagine a place where they feel relaxed and happy. They learn they can think of their Special Place when they are sad, scared, bored or if they are hurt
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Lawrence Grassi Middle School
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RFTS and the RCMP have also been with all of the Grade 7 and 8's to talk and discuss the (un)intentional harm language can cause. The students were able to give relevant examples of language being used in and outside of school in their daily lives and the RCMP were able to draw the link in what they see and hear in and around the community. There was great discussion and realizations were made. Hopefully we and they will see/hear the change
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Alpenglow grade six went to LGMS this week. With a bit of excitement and nerves these grade sixes got a chance to connect with some of the other grade sixes they will be with next year! We will continue to support this transition as later this month Deren Alward (with RFTS at LGMS) will come for a visit to Alpenglow! Mind up is being used with with kindies this month -- ask your child about the brain and what parts of the brain they are learning about! The month of February will focus on empathy and kindness at Alpenglow - stay tuned for our next School Assembly!
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At BES we've been focusing on focus! Using bean bags for balancing and group juggling, students have been inquiring into what strategies they use to focus, and what distractions trouble them. Focus is part of the brain's executive functioning, which occurs in the pre-frontal cortex. Executive function develops and requires effortful control, working memory and mental flexibility.
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50 students can show up at Games Club (Wednesday lunch recess). Our selection of games is good, but aging. Your donations of gently used and whole games are always appreciated. You can bring them into the main office of BES.
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Keeping the Problem Small is always helpful! At BES Grade 1 students learned to assess the size of their problems. Most students thought their problems were very big (above), which often leads to big reactions. After some discussion they were able to see that most problems at school are really quite small (below). And that helps them keep their problems small (below).
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It's been a busy time at LGMS. Some of the Grade 4, 5, and 6's have been learning the benefits of putting effort into everything they do, whether it be friendships, riddles, math, or standing up for what is right. Whatever we put effort into helps us to grow, literally.
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Honesty has also been a focus with some of the Grade 4 and 5's. The importance of being honest, though important for others, we have been discovering how important it is for being able to trust ourselves. Stories and activities have been a fun part of these lessons.
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Grade 1's saw baby Galena with the You Feel, I Feel program this month. They will miss her while she on holidays but the family will be writing the grades ones on their journey! We will get to see baby Galena again after Spring Break!
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Drumming is a sneaky way to help students develop and practice focus while having fun. Grade 7's have been learning how to listen with intention, to focus and to engage in teamwork while playing djembes, tabanos and frame drums.
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Allyson and Kat run several lunch time clubs for students, including Soulwarmers, Drama Club and Games Club.
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Positive Ways to Manage Life’s Challenges
workshops
Canmore
: March 28, 7:00 - 8:30 pm; Canmore Civic Centre Classroom. To register c
all 403-609-3743 or email
Send an email here.
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What is the question that will help kids find healthy friendships? “The most fundamental desire of a human being is to be loved and to belong. We want connection. For our children, friendship is everything. It is also the thing they worry about most. They want to fit in, but sometimes that need to fit in leads them to ignore the most important question they should be asking about themselves and their friends."
Read more about it here.
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Right from the Start | 403-678-6292 |
For inquires contact Mary Weighell
Project Coordinator
mary.weighell@crps.ca
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