When talking about concepts during this week one term/phrase really stood out to me which is social-emotional learning. Social-emotional learning is the process of developing self awareness, social awareness, self management and responsible decision making skills which are all super helpful things kids will need to succeed in not only school but as well as in life. I find this concept to be interesting because it literally is the development of yourself as you grow up and work on so many positive things.
My mindfulness rock was just to draw what you wanted while listening to music. I was listening to the music when painting this rock and SRU just popped in my head. Next was the motivational rock where we put words or phrases to motivate ; I always say yay no matter the context so I figured that would be perfect for me to put. Next was the super power rock I painted in class. The task was to paint a rock that had super powers or could give you super powers which I thought was a super cool idea for the kids. I made mine a love rock; which I just took as loving everything and everyone is the super power.
Attending and doing this activity made me feel more relaxed. It was a fun way to learn in a not so formal way and made me not as stressed. I think there are so many ways to integrate this kind of art into the classroom. Painting rocks can be used in every subject I can think of in a few different ways. I think it would be a great way to help children learn math skills. Kids can paint numbers on the rocks or paint dots on the rocks then count how many dots there are.
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