🌟Winnie's Wise Path Adventure🌟
A Mindful journey into understanding big feelings and finding our calm place within...one breath at a time.
Join me (and a few of my special helpers) as we read Winnie's story and learn mindful tools to move through big feelings. Teachers & counselors: feel free to use the SEL classroom lesson plans if you'd rather guide the story on your own.
Lesson 1: Safe Space Helpers
📘 In Winnie’s story:
We learn that Winnie is a safe space for the whole Enchanted Forest with her calm presence and wisdom.
🧚 Inside this module:
• Kids learn what a safe space is
• Kids come up with their own safe spaces (people, places, and things) that help them feel settled.
• Kids explore how they feel safety in their bodies.
🍄 What you’ll need:
• Crayons or markers
• The Safe Space PDF 👉 click the image to open it!
🩷 Activity:
• Fill out your Safe Space Helpers to remind yourself of people, places, and things you can turn to to help find calm inside.
📖 Classroom Lesson Plan
Lesson 2: Stormy Feelings
📘 In Winnie’s story:
We learn that when big feelings take over, Winnie feels like she's being swept away in a storm, making it hard to choose wisely.
🧚 Inside this module:
• Kids learn that it's hard to think clearly when big feelings come up
• Kids learn the best thing we can do when we feel stormy inside is to turn to our safe space helpers.
• Kids explore their bodies feel when big emotions take over.
🍄 What you’ll need:
• Glitter Jar (see link or you can make your own)!
• My Stormy Feelings PDF 👉 click the image to open it!
🩷 Activity:
• Watch what happens to our thoughts when big feelings take over with the Glitter Jar Activity.
📖 Classroom Lesson Plan:
Lesson 3: Feelings in Motion
📘 In Winnie’s story:
We learn that big feelings sometimes just need a little space to move and settle. We practice gentle yoga poses with Winnie and her mom.
🧚 Inside this module:
• Kids learn that yoga provides a safe space for our big feelings
• Kids learn and practice a gentle yoga sequence
• Kids explore how their bodies feel after doing yoga
🍄 What you’ll need:
• Glitter Jar (see link or you can make your own)!
• Feelings in Motion PDF 👉 click the image to open it!
🩷 Activity:
• Notice how your body feels before and after practicing yoga. Notice how your 'glitter' starts to settle.
📖 Classroom Lesson Plan:
Lesson 4: The Wise Breath
📘 In Winnie’s story:
We learn that Winnie discovers the belly breath is like a superpower that helps her breathe into her big feelings. It helps her settle her stormy feelings and make wise choices.
🧚 Inside this module:
• Kids learn that the belly breath is a special tool we carry with us everywhere
• Kids learn and practice belly breathing, lion's breath, and the bumblebee breath
• Kids explore how their bodies feel after doing breathwork
🍄 What you’ll need:
• Glitter Jar (see link or you can make your own)!
• The Wise Breath PDF 👉 click the image to open it!
🩷 Activity:
• Notice how your body feels before and after practicing three different breathing exercises. Notice how your 'glitter' starts to settle.
📖 Classroom Lesson Plan:
Lesson 5: Heart Gifts
📘 In Winnie’s story:
We learn that Winnie discovers when we breathe into our big feelings, we find calm inside. And from that quiet place, we can hear our hearts and share our own special magic with the world.
🧚 Inside this module:
• Kids learn that when our stormy feelings settle, it's easier to make kind, heart-led choices.
• Kids learn Winnie's W.I.S.E. Path tool
• Kids explore their own heart gifts they can offer to the world.
🍄 What you’ll need:
• Glitter Jar (see link or you can make your own)!
• Heart Gifts PDF 👉 click the image to open it!
• W.I.S.E. Path PDF 👉 click the image to open it!
🩷 Activity:
• Listening to our hearts meditation
📖 Classroom Lesson Plan:
