Extension Activities

The following activities can be for anyone whether you are currently participating in a small group or not.

Building Resiliency
Review: Have your child tell you what resiliency is? What it means to be healthy?

Practice Problem Solving by using this strategy the students learned through their Second Step lessons.

Check In/Check Out
Scaling 
How are you feeling on a scale 1-5? One represents not feeling well at all, three feeling okay,  and a five represents feeling great.  It is okay to be anywhere on the scale.  Have your child describe why they picked the number they picked and/or ask what would it take to move from a two to a three.

Specific Daily Activities 

Set an intention for the day.  

The students would pick intention cards for the day.  You can look at this post to see the types of intentions they would pick from and help them create their own intention. 

Coping Cats 
Check out these short videos about worry from Counselor Keri called Worry Warriors.  We use many of her materials in our program.  She is a great resource! You can watch them all at once, one a day, or one a week.


Eagle Energizers Go Noodle is a resource many of our teachers use to provide movement breaks throughout the day.  They have a section for you to access and use at home to move and learn with your kids.


Friendship & Social Skills

• Play a card or board game together
• Play an online game like Wheel of the Will Basic Conversation Skills
• K-1 Students watch Howard Wiggle Bottom videos, sing A longs, and play games
• K-4 Students one of our favorite authors Julia Cook will be doing Facebook Live readings of the following books at 9:00 A.M. on Mondays and Fridays  

      


Mindfulness

• Check out the Big Life Journal's resources on Mindfulness activities.  
• Go Noodle is a resource many of our teachers use at school.  They have a section for you to access and use at home.  Click here to practice a mindfulness activity called melting. 

Zones of Regulation 

Here is a link to a list of books that can be used to help explore each of the zones. You may be able to find these books on Raz-Kids, Epic, or the St. Louis County Library site.

These statements/questions can help reinforce the Zones work we have been doing at school.

• What size was the problem? Small? Medium? Large? 
• Did your reaction match the size of the problem? 
• Was that an expected or unexpected behavior? 
• Did that make the other person comfortable or uncomfortable? 
• Was that a strong or weak choice? 
• If a child does something wrong, ask them to redo it.