Raising money for the Wildfires in Australia...

Oh the places you will go!

Oh the places you will go...

Goals for Grade 4/5.  students will reflect on these goals throughout the term.

Core Practice

Core Practice of Mindup

PAUSE. LISTEN. BREATHE.

Focus on sitting balanced and comfortably, listening to the sound of a rain stick, and feeling your breath going in and out of your body.

With practicing everyday the hope is to create new pathways in our brain to respond to situations and feelings through taking a moment and thinking before we react or speak.  Less false alarms.

Wanting the prefrontal cortex to take charge.

Students also wrote in their journals of a place that they could practice this at home.

Mindful vs unmindful

"DO WHAT YOU CAN

WITH WHAT YOU HAVE

WHERE YOU ARE"

Be in the moment...

Using your senses to be mindful and in the moment.

Breathe deep.

What do you  hear?

What do you see?

What do you smell?

What do you feel?

What do you taste?

Map Quiz

Social Studies Quiz on Monday

Social Studies Duotangs will be brought home.
Students are expected to review the Continents, Oceans, Canada's provinces and capital cities.  A multiple choice quiz will be on Monday.

Questions will consist of:

What is the ocean alongside British Columbia?
What is the capital city of Ontario?
What continent to we live on?
Which of the following are territories?

Here are basics:

7 continents: North America, South America, Australia, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Africa

5 Oceans: Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, Southern

Canada's Provinces/Territories and Capital Cities:
British Columbia- Victoria
Alberta- Edmonton
Saskatchewan- Regina
Manitoba-Winnipeg
Quebec- Quebec City
Ontario- Toronto
New Brunswick- Fredericton
Prince Edward Island- Charlottetown
Nova Scotia- Halifax
Newfoundland and Labrador- St. John's
Yukon- Whitehorse
Nunavut- Iqaluit
Northwest Territories- Yellowknife

MINDup

  MINDUP

Lessons taught this week:

Parts of the Brain and How They Help Us

Preventing False Alarms with our Amygdala

Flipping your lid- reacting before pausing, thinking and responding in a reasonable way.
When our amygdala is active during a false alarm (no danger) it prevents messages going to our prefrontal cortex.  In the coming lessons we will be learning strategies in preventing false alarms.

We actually don't want to get rid of the thoughts and feelings and urges.  We just want them out of the way so they don't prevent us from seeing clearly.