Kids Corner

The “Kids’ Corner” section of our school newsletter provides the opportunity for the children to showcase their talents or communicate something special.  This fortnight, some of our fabulous Year 5 students would like to share what they have learnt in their Mind, Body and Us (MBU) classes:

Suditi

This term in Mind, Body and Us we have been exploring the zones of regulation and mindfulness strategies. Currently we have been getting to know each other and setting MBU expectations, deepening our understanding of the zones of regulation, learning mindfulness strategies and techniques. We also learned about relationships.

The zones of regulation help us understand each other’s feelings. The red zone is when you are feeling angry or very irritated. The yellow zone is either if you are worried, scared or super excited. The green zone is when you are calm, mindful and happy, and the blue zone is if you are feeling sad or tired.

Some of the mindfulness techniques we learned were, drawing or mindful colouring, deep breaths and meditation. You can use these strategies when you are in the red zone, yellow zone or blue zone to take you back into the green zone. It has helped me a lot, learning this in MBU.

When we learned about relationships, we got scenarios and were answering questions such as, how might they feel? What could have they do differently? How might they respond in a way that keeps their friendship strong? Our friendships have both negative and positive effects which is why we learn how to deal with this in MBU.

Ramaiya

In MBU this term we have been looking more towards the emotions side, for example we have identifying emotions in real life and coming up with solutions to solve those problems. Like our charades lesson. Our charades lesson was about guessing what emotions people were feeling.

We have also been starting with 10 minutes of mindfulness before start the lesson. The reason why we do this is because we need to calm down before the lesson starts so we can learn the best way we can. Linking to mindfulness we have also been focusing on the 5 senses by going outside focusing on our breathing, and looking around on what we can see, hear, smell and touch. 

We are also focusing on what emotions can be shown when we are in a relationship with friends, cousins, siblings or parents. We have been looking at other people’s emotions during a scene in a relationship. 

Rohith

In MBU we have learnt:  

We have examined how emotions have impact interactions and relationships. 

- For example, “How might Jake feel?” Jake might feel sad, mad and upset 

“How might Ella feel?”  Ella may feel sorry, confused and sad.

Ella could say sorry and move on.

Understanding how to recognise other people emotions to help them be happy. 

• It helps you to understand the problem and solve it. Maybe just helping them could get you a new friendship.
• Deepening our understanding in zones of regulation of emotions and how to the identify them in real life 
• We can find people who have problem and see if we can fix their problem.

Jake

We deepened our understanding of the Zones of Regulation, and we dealt with certain situations and answer questions like how one of the characters felt or what could they do to make it better. This helped our learning by getting us to understand the Zones of Regulation better and deal with situations in our lives better.