Calm Down Skills
This calm down skill can be used to calm down when mad and involves tracing your hand and taking deep breaths
What is five finger breathing?
The difference between joking and teasing
What is one is funny and playful, while the other can cause hurt and harm
This is when your desk/backpack are neat, tidy and things are easy to find
Give an example for each space
What is being organized?
This is the P- in ethical decision making. You think about how others would react if they could see your decision.
What is posted?
This calm down skill can be used if you are feeling restless or sleepy at your seat
What is desk stretches?
These are things we have the power to change
Give two examples
What is inside our control
-effort, attitude, response to situations,
This educational level is the foundation for all other levels
State the high school you will be going to
What is high school?
This is the I- in ethical decision making. You think about what is being told to you.
What is your inner voice?
This calm down skill involves relaxing your whole body. Demonstrate it.
What is spaghetti body?
These are things we do not have the power to change
What is outside of our control?
Ie: the weather, other peoples thoughts and actions,
This is educational level is the highest education you can receive and includes doctors, lawyers, dentists and researchers
What is a doctoral degree?
This is the E- in ethical decision making. You think about what would happen if all students acted this way.
What is everybody?
Demonstrate brain buttons and share when you might use it
What is ne hand on heart, one hand on stomach. Calm breaths? Can use it when you are upset, frustrated, overwhelmed, angry
The four steps for determining whether something if inside/outside of your control
What is determine if something is inside or outside of your control
if outside: let it go, focus on something else
If inside: use a calm down skill, solve it
This learning style is when students learn by seeing, use charts/visuals, like taking notes/quiet and sitting at the front
What is visual learners?
When you view a problem from a new lens and see what you can learn from it.
What is an opportunity?
What are the five things for spidey senses?
What is 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you hear, 2 things you can smell, one thing you can touch?
The three steps for talking it out
Give an example
What is
I feel, when you, could you please?
This type of learner tends to be a naturally good listener, responds when things are explained out loud, and learns by saying things out loud.
What is an auditory learner?
A strategy for being present and focusing on what is happening right now. Not what happened before or will happen in the future
Provide an example of a strategy to use
What is being mindful?
Active listening, coloring mandalas, rainbow walk, spidey senses, calming music