Activities

Activities, Anxiety

Real vs. Perceived Threat

As many of you know by now, I have been working with an increasing number of students dealing with anxiety. They have all really enjoyed the What is Anxiety video, but even after watching the video, I have found myself explaining a few things in more detail. So… I made this sheet/activity to help my students understand the difference between real (the owl) vs. perceived (bear or fox) threats.

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Activities, Anxiety, Teacher Tools

Personifying Worry

How annoying is it for you when you’re really upset and someone says, “Don’t worry, everything will be fine,”? I don’t know about you, but for me, this tends to just make me feel worse because everything doesn’t  feel fine in that moment. Our students are the same way. Simply dismissing their anxiety or worry often just spirals them. If everything was fine for them, then they wouldn’t have the big feelings in the first place.

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Activities, Regulation

People in my Puzzle

Schools play a huge and instrumental role in creating a strong support network for students. My teachers are great at building relationships with kids. It is seriously one of the things that they’re best at! Because of this, my students typically have a pretty strong support network in place during their school day. However, I find that some of my students truly do not recognize all of the supportive people that surround them until I point it out. 

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Activities, Emotion Identification

Naming our Feelings

We cannot expect our students to be able to regulate if they do not have the words to express how they are feeling. I absolutely love teaching feelings vocabulary to my students because I always find that it is so interesting to hear those that the students know. Sometimes, it’s even more interesting to hear the feelings that fill them with confusion or are left out completely!

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