School Fontes

Torre Pacheco (Murcia)1

“Relaxation, Emotional Education and Values”

Autora y coordinadoraLola Rodríguez Escribano

Participantes:Isabel Aparicio InglesGema Saura PizarroInmaculada Soto InglésCristina Ros RodríguezAna Belén Roca ZaplanaCarmen García LeónJuana Mª Gracia LambertosMª Fuensanta Bastida PedreñoMª José Guillen GarcíaMilagros Pérez SotoDiego Bascuñana Menbrives

CEIP Fontesying_sol_yang@hotmail.com

C / Sicilia No 9 30700 Torre Pacheco (Murcia)phone 652839401

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

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Why? Relaxation, Emotional Education and Values?

Teachers

Students Parents

Tools

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What do we want?

Discover different ways of controlling

emotions

Provide strategies for personal balance

Develop empathy and frustration tolerance

and impulsiveness

Promote coexistence, friendship and

creativity

Recognize the positive and negative

emotions

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Teachers begin the project:

1. Teachers learn concepts and create activities, so we experience different ways to be better with ourselves

2. Teachers recognize their skills and also other teachers skills

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ACTIVITY EXAMPLE1. We invent three words and create a story with them

Goodness- sadness - friendship

2. Next, we read the story aloud

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How do we work in the class?

The process is realized in three steps: •at the beginning•after recess • at the end

The four activities are called: "Assembly of relaxation, emotions and

values."

When children arrive to the class. They will do four activities

•disconnect from home• relax•focus

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First activity: Breathing 3 -year-old students: “My doll goes up and

down”

5-year-old students: “We are balloons”

4-year- old students: “The Elevator”

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Second activity: The magic word GRACIAS

GRACIAS because my mum takes me to the park

GRACIAS because Dad hugs me

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Third activity: Let out what we do not want

Firstly, we tell what happened. Then, we touch the body part where we feel the discomfort saying “GRACIAS and WELLCOME”, to the body part

Later, we stand in a purple* carpet and we jump saying: GO OUT and BECOME JOY or any other good thing for us.

10* The purple color has the property to change the bad into good.

Fourth activity: We say nice words"You are a good person“

“ I love you” We hug or kiss

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After the Assembly, kids tell how they feel.

We use a panel with different kind of faces.

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Relaxation CornerHere children come to relax and

listen to music. They can come and choose music. Also, they can draw

how they feel in our class notebook.

Other way to use the corner, is listening to the water fountain

and drawing mandalas.

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The emotions’ clock

They go freely to the corner when they feel bad.

The small hand of the clock is fixed in the phrase “How do I feel?” The bigger one is moved in to the emotion the children feel, when they arrive and when they leave the corner.

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Another emotions’ clock

The feelings are represented by children pictures

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1. For evaluating positive actions that the child does for others

3. For increasing their self-steeme

Positive diary

2. With it, children learn how to help other students and how to feel useful by themselves

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The MandalasA Mandala is a concentric draw to be colored.

How does it work?:

1. Children are in silence.2. Each one choose the most suitable draw to their current mood.

3. Teachers ask how the child feels before start.

4. Every kind of color pencils, markers and finger paints are provided.

5. Finally, when the time runs out (15 minutes), kids are asked how they feel one more time.

6. If the mandala is not finished, it will be completed next week.

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Creative mandalas (made by them)

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This activity is done once a week just after recess

MassagesAnimal massage Auto-face massage

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This actity is done once a week just after recess

While the teacher tells a tale about animals, students give the massage following the story

With handcream each children follow the teacher’s instructions

2 We talk about the visualization in assembly

3. Each student draws creatively his visualization

Visualization

1. They relax and listen to the teacher

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This actity is done once a week just after recess

Emotion games before going home

Bingo emotions The dice of emotions

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Our handmade bingo

THE BEAR HUG (before going home)

1. First we all dance

2. Then we hug eachother or in groups

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We work values playing theatrePlay’s title: Pepe and the Green Pixie

We work anger, friendship and respect

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Parents, with their children elaborate tales in the traveler

bookParents create tales. The characters are their children, skills children, values and emotions children

It’s written at home.

Children have to fill out a worksheet writing about the family actions and feelings.

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An example: A dad is telling a story about values and emotions

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Conclussion

Everybody is friendly and

relaxedTrouble shooting using

easy toolsParents

are happy

Increase the creativity

Improve teachers,

parents and children

behavour

Control the emotions

Everyone is happy and better with ourselves and with others

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