5.5 Whole School Activities
Core competency:
Social Awareness
Relationship Skills
Materials:
None
Time:
15 minutes
A community building exercise that asks individuals to reflect on the qualities they appreciate in their peers.
Valuing one another, honoring each other’s ideas and treating others in the community with kindness is a key factor in building the social and moral fabric of a community.
Before the first class begins, students are invited to stand in a circle for a Web of Compliments. Create a web using a ball of yarn. Begin with one person holding the end of the yarn and throwing it to another student. As they toss the yarn the student should compliment the receiver. Continue weaving a web around the circle, until each student has received the ball of yarn once. Before dropping the web of thread, students are asked to take a mindful breath in appreciation for the people in the room.
Help students learn how fleeting stress can be. By blowing up a balloon and then releasing it students learn the power of not to attaching to their stories of stress behavior.
The intention is to create a time in the day where all the students pause, breathe and be in the moment.
This activity provides the space for students and teachers to express gratitude and reflect upon the gifts present in their lives.
This activity helps to build a culture of mindfulness in your student body by dedicating one day a week to the art and practice of compassion.
To create space in a designated space in the Library where administrators, teachers and students can utilize the space for silence.