We want to visit your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade classroom!
We'd love to visit your classroom to deliver our 3-part 45-minute lesson series to teach your students valuable mindfulness techniques and practices. Let us know 3 days that work best for you!
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Lesson 1: Your Mind is Like the Sky
We explore how some thoughts are positive, like fluffy white clouds on a sunny day. Other thoughts are less kind, like rain clouds on a stormy day. We have the power to choose which thoughts to pay attention to. Even when our minds feel stormy, we explain that it always passes.
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Lesson 2: Puppy Mind
We explain how our minds are like puppies, they need to be trained! We teach bubble breathing, a fun technique for your students to practice mindfulness and calm themselves down by taking slow, deep breaths as if blowing gentle bubbles.
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Lesson 3: Gratitude is my Superpower
We teach that expressing gratitude is like sending a happy message to the world, asking for more goodness. Saying “thank you” is a special way to bring more love into your life!
FAQs
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We are UCSB students with a passion for teaching mindfulness to children! Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to our thoughts, kindly and without judgement. When we are mindful, we begin to notice that even though our thoughts often seem like the truth, they are just thoughts, and we don’t always have to follow where they go. With consistent practice, mindfulness brings rewards like reduced anxiety and depression, improved attention spans, and increased happiness.
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Each session is typically 45 minutes, but we can shorten them to 30-35 minutes if that works better for you. Ideally, we'd visit the same day & time for three consecutive weeks!
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We begin each session with a children's book. Then, we transition to a short guided discussion and/or meditation. We conclude with a craft and our "Mindful Mentor Chant"!
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Our availability shifts each season, as our volunteers are UCSB undergraduate students with changing schedules. Please let us know what day and time works best for you, and we will do our very best to make it work for us!
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Currently, we have a 3 part curriculum tailored to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade classrooms. We are working on expanding to reach more grades!
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Ideally, we stay within the Santa Barbara & Goleta Unified School Districts. But, if you are located outside of this area and are interested in our services, please reach out and we will try to make it work!