Conscious Discipline

 

Social emotional development is a HUGE part of early childhood development. We use conscious discipline as a tool to help our students identify their emotions and how to cope with them appropriately. Click on Conscious discipline for parents to check out some great resources for strategies to use at home!

Conscious discipline includes creating a safe area in the classroom where children can go to take a break. This area includes a soft chair, visuals of different emotions, 'feeling buddies', emotions books, and strategies for calming ourselves and how to cope.

 

 



One of our calm down strategies that we learned this week is called Star Breathing. When we get upset or angry we use our star breathing to breath in through our nose and out through our mouths. We made our own star breathing visuals to remind us how to calm ourselves.



Star breathers help us inhale and exhale when we are anxious.

We will be sending our star breathers home. Please keep this to help your child practice their calming strategy when they feel themselves getting anxious or angry.