 sure what it is, let’s take a look at what it is all about. In a nutshell, mindfulness is being aware of your present feelings and emotions. You are essentially being “Mindful” of the present moment and using “Mediation” to focus your thoughts. The overall goal of using classroom activities involving mindfulness is to control your mind to bring your thoughts onto the present moment.
There has been a body of scientific research that illustrates the positive effects that mindfulness training has on a child’s mental health and well-being. Besides improving attention and reducing stress, it can also boost a student’s memory and academic performance. In just a few minutes a day, we can help to improve our students’ social and emotional skills, and help them reduce stress and anxiety so they can live a happier, healthier life.
This strong base of research, along with its growing members of supporters, is now spreading through schools across the globe, and has brought together a community that has the potential to make a real difference on our students’ well-being. The mindfulness-in-education movement is sweeping the nation, and it’s time for you to jump on the bandwagon. Here are a few tools to get you started.
There is really no “Right” way to practice mindfulness in your classroom, or any set instructions for you to follow. However, there are a few basic guidelines that you can follow and adapt to your students’ needs.
Start off with 60-second exercises and increase the time as your students gain confidence and experience. You can start by having your students sit quietly and comfortably in their seats with their feet planted on the floor and their hands on their laps. Have them close their eyes and listen to their breath as they breathe in and out. Encourage students to count each breath as they inhale (… 1) and exhale (… 2) to help keep their mind focused, trying to lengthen their breath each time they breathe. Once they get the hang of it, you can increase the amount of time to five or even 15 minutes.
If you feel that some students are reluctant to try this or any of the mindfulness techniques, then try showing them a video about how their brain works. Research shows that when students know more about the brain and how it works, then they have a better understanding of what it can do for them.
According to the Cfchildren.org, “Mind Yeti is a free, easy-to-use guided mindfulness resource designed to help kids calm down, focus themselves in preparation for learning and better connect to themselves and others.” This mobile web app uses animated videos and metaphors to help young children understand complicated concepts. Its interesting soundscapes make mindfulness fun, and children who have used it claim to feel calmer immediately after using it.
Mind Yeti has three distinct sessions that it concentrations on: Calm, focus, and connect. There are four sessions under “Calm” that each last about 3-4 minutes long. This is the best tool for settling your brain (or as they call it your “Hubbub”) by using your breath. There are also four session under the topic “Focus” that each last between 5-6 minutes. This is the best tool for focusing your attention on what’s happening right now. The last topic is called “Connect,” which is a tool to help you find gratitude and kindness for yourself and the world around you. These four sessions last between 3-4 minutes each.
Mind Yeti can help students focus at the beginning of the day or them calm down at the end of the day. It’s a great way for children to focus their attention so that they can be the best learners that they can be.
Headspace is another great tool to use in the classroom. This app offers ten free sessions that your students can use over and over again, or you can purchase a subscription for $12.99 a month or $94.99 a year. Honestly, the ten free sessions are all your students really need. However, it is well worth the price tag if you want more specific sessions like how to treat depression, anxiety, etc.
Children will like the simple visualization exercises, along with the graphics and videos that go along with it. However, the sessions last from anywhere to 10-15 minute, so it is recommended that children who have experience with mindfulness mediation use this app. If students are just beginning to learn about mindfulness, then Mind Yeti would be a great tool to introduce this concept. Once students get the hang of it, then they can move onto the Headspace app.
Science has shown that taking a few minutes a day to mediate can have a profound effect on your mental health and overall well-being. It is a great tool to teach students now when they are young, because it is something that they can take with them and use forever.
Do you use mindfulness in your classroom? What are your thoughts about it? Please share your comments in the section below, we would love to heat what you have to say.i think that proves my point. We now have a manger that is giving our youth a chance. As a result we have a really young and inexperienced team. I'd say Willian has never been as valuable to the team as he is now, purely based on the fact that his experience/leadership wasn't needed anywhere near as much before as it is now. Add to that that he's been on a better and longer run of good form than he usually has. 

At the start of the season I'd of called anyone crazy if they said we should extend Willians contract, but I've U turned now. Just have to see if he goes into a form slump like we are used to, or if he keeps this up.I am trying to show the following: let $\beta$ be an $r$-cycle. Show that $\beta \in A_n$ iff $r$ is odd. First I want to understand what the question is even stating as I am still a beginner in learning group-theory.
As I understand it, probably incorrectly, if $\beta$ is an r-cycle then $\beta = (a_1,a_2,a_3,...,a_r)$ for some $r \in \mathbb{Z}$.
$\bf{If-Direction}:$ if $r$ is odd then $\beta$ is the product of an even number of tranpositions $(a_1a_r)(a_1a_{r-1})(a_1a_{r-2})...(a_1a_2)$ which implies that $\beta \in A_n$.
$\bf{Only-If \ Direction:}$ if $\beta \in A_n$ then $\beta = (a_1a_r)(a_1a_{r-1})(a_1a_{r-2})...(a_1a_2)$ for some $r \in \mathbb{Z}$. Moreover, there must be an even number of these transpositions by the definition of $\beta \in A_n$. So $r$ must be odd since it is impossible for $r$ to be even and for there to be $r-1$ products of transpositions since $r-1$ was already shown to be even.
Is this a complete proof? Thank you in advance.
This can be achieved by making two persons at a time to exchange their positions. Call one person as the head. Let the head person move clockwise and exchange his position with the next person. Everytime this head person exchanges his position with the immediate next one clockwise (whoever it is). Once head person comes to the last position the process halts. Now note that desired $r$ cycle permutation is obtained. This involved exactly $r-1$ exchanges (transpositions). SO if $r$ is odd then any $r$ cycle would be an even permutation.
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The press and the people this week are asking why we so seldom see police officers literally on the street, outside of their squad cars.
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Pictures of life in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Hills. And since August 2013 also a look at the northern Negev, my new home.
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Sadly, we are living in parts of the world Dina, that police needs some rest from time to time..
Maybe they are cops "off the beat"? Or "On beat on the bench"? :-)
PS Thank you for the pleasant comment!
This made me think: I forget sometimes that the police are people, doing their job. Trying to support their families. Doing life the best they can. So of course, why not take a break on a bench?
What perfect photos for the meme.
Shabbat Shalom!
You can't miss them with those bright green vests!
I don't like seeing cops on the street. I don't much like or trust our police or soldiers :(
Love the photo of the sculpture. I always learn something when I visit you. The photos in Thursdays post are wonderful.
Those cops must be newbies still learning the job.
Dina, what are the latest archaeological finds you been digging up?
These cops are not beating about the bush anyway! I read the story about the Danish rescuers. They were admirable people all through the war. The king was their shining example. I heard that when all Jewish Danes had to wear a yellow star, he also wore a star, and that he daily asked how the Jewish Danes, who were arrested, were doing.
Now that is what I like to see -- benches being used! Nice sculpture to view sitting there too!
I always enjoy seeing outdoor art in other