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Classroom Mindfulness Resources

Discover innovative resources  that can be used in school or at home to teacher children how to live in the moment, control their emotion, be respectful and spread kindness in our world

Literature

Literature is a wonderful to introduce big ideas about the world to students. Literature can show students how their actions can impact themselves, their class community, and the outside world around them. These are some novels that have impacted my students in a positive way to create a mindful classroom environment. 

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When reading these stories, teachers can have the students write down their observations using picture, key words that stick out, how the story made them feel, how the story relates to themselves, the classroom and their outside world. 

Diversity

  • A Boy Like You- Frank Murphy

  • A Girl Like You- Carla Murphy and Frank Murphy

  • All Are Welcome- Alexandra Penfold

  • I Am Enough- Grace Byers

  • Color of Us- Karen Katz

  • Just Like Me- Vanessa Brantley- Newton

  • One Big Heart- Davis Fleming

Kindness

  • Be Kind- Pat Zietlow Miller

  • Character Kids Save the Day!- Kristin Ciofalo

  • Dear Children of the Earth- Schim Schimmel

  • Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids- Carol McCloud

  • Our Ocean Home- Robert Lyn Nelson

  • The Peace Book- Todd Parr

Perservance  

  • Ada Twist, Scientist- Andrea Beaty

  • Iggy Peck, Architect- Andrea Beaty

  • Rosie Revere Engineer- Andrea Beaty

  • Sofia Valdez, Future Prez- Andrea Beaty

  • Giraffes Can't Dance- Andrea Parker- Rees

  • What Do You Do With a Chance?- Yamada

  • What Do You Do With an Idea?- Yamada

Feelings

  • Grumpy Bird- Jeremy Tankard

  • Boo Hoo Bird- Jeremy Tankard

  • Grumpy Monkey- Suzanne Lang

  • If the Wind Changes- Steve Smallman and Daniel Howarth

  • Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses- Kimberly and James Dean

 Videos

Showing videos in the classroom is a wonderful to introduce big ideas about the world to students. Videos give students visual and auditory reinforcement on how their actions can impact themselves, their class community, and the outside world around them. These are some novels that have impacted my students in a positive way to create a mindful classroom environment. 

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Teachers can have their students write in a journal about how they feel and what the moral of the videos are to create a class conversation that relates to themselves and others around them.

Kindness

  • YouTube

    • Color Your World With Kindness 

    • For The Heroes: A Pep Talk from Kid President 

    • Kid President's 20 Things We Should Say More Often

    • Kid President's Pep Talk to Teacher's and Students

    • Life Vest inside Kindness Boomerang 

Calm Breathing 

  • GoNoodle

    • Get Back on Track​

    • From Mindless from Mindful

    • Chin Up

    • Swirling 

    • Rainbow Breath

    • Bear Breath

    • Bunny Breath

    • Bee Breath​​

Music

Listening to music is a unique way to introduce big ideas about the world to students. Music gives students the ability to listen and express themselves through their thoughts and actions. Music can impact the students themselves, their class community, and the outside world around them. These are some songs that have impacted my students in a positive way to create a mindful classroom environment. 

 

While the songs are playing, have students write in a journal about how they feel and what the moral of the songs are to create a class conversation that relates to themselves and others around them.

  • A Million Dreams- Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams

  • All Star- Smash Mouth

  • Best Day of My Life- American Authors

  • Can't Stop the Feeling- Justin Timberlake

  • Count on Me- Bruno Mars

  • Do Something- Matthew West

  • Don't Stop Me Now- Queen

  • Fight Song- Rachel Platten

  • Firework- Katy Perry

  • Get Back Up Again- Anna Kendrick

  • Good Feeling- Flo Rida

  • Happy- Pharrell Williams

  • Helium- Mikey Wax

  • Higher Love- Kygo, Whitney Houston

  • I Lived- OneRepublic

  • Keep Your Head Up- Andy Grammer

  • Let it Go- Idina Menzel

  • Never Ever Give Up- Matthew West

  • Never Give Up- Sia

  • On Top of the World- Imagine Dragons

  • Respect- Aretha Franklin 

  • Say- John Mayer

  • Sing- Pentatonix

  • Stand By You- Rachel Platten 

  • The Greatest- Sia, Kendrick Lamar

  • This is Me- Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas

  • Titanium- David Guetta, Sia

  • Together- Sia

  • True Friend- Hannah Montana 

  • Try Everything- Shakira

  • Unwritten- Natasha Bedingfield

  • Upside Down- Jack Johnson

  • Waiting On the World to Change- John Mayer

  • What Do I Know?- Ed Sheeran

  • You've Got a Friend in me- Randy Newman

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