2. EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
“Relaxation, Emotional Education and
Values”
Autora y coordinadora
Lola Rodríguez Escribano
Participantes:
Isabel Aparicio Ingles
Gema Saura Pizarro
Inmaculada Soto Inglés
Cristina Ros Rodríguez
Ana Belén Roca Zaplana
Carmen García León
Juana Mª Gracia Lambertos
Mª Fuensanta Bastida Pedreño
Mª José Guillen García
Milagros Pérez Soto
Diego Bascuñana Menbrives
CEIP Fontes
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phone 652839401 2
4. Provide strategies
Discover different for personal balance
ways of controlling
emotions
Promote coexistence,
friendship and
creativity
What do
we want?
Recognize the
positive and negative Develop empathy and
emotions frustration tolerance
and impulsiveness
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5. 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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6. ACTIVITY EXAMPLE
1. We invent three words and create a story with them
Goodness- sadness - friendship
2. Next, we read the
story aloud
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7. How do we work in the class?
The process is realized in three steps:
•at the beginning
•after recess
• at the end
When children arrive to the class. They will do four
activities
•disconnect from home
• relax
•focus
The four activities are called:
"Assembly of relaxation, emotions and
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8. First activity: Breathing
3 -year-old students: “My doll goes up and
down” 4-year- old students: “The
Elevator”
5-year-old students: “We are
balloons”
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9. Second activity: The magic word
GRACIAS
GRACIAS because my mum takes GRACIAS because Dad hugs me
me to the park
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10. Third activity: Let out what we do not
want we stand in a purple* carpet
Later,
Firstly, we tell what happened. Then,
and we jump saying: GO OUT and
we touch the body part where we
BECOME JOY or any other good thing
feel the discomfort saying “GRACIAS
for us.
and WELLCOME”, to the body part
* The purple color has the property to change the bad into good.
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11. Fourth activity: We say nice
"You are a good person“words
“ I love you” We hug or kiss
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12. After the Assembly, kids tell how they
feel.
We use a panel with different kind of faces.
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13. Relaxation Corner Other way to use the corner, is
Here children come to relax and
listen to music. They can come and listening to the water fountain
choose music. Also, they can draw and drawing mandalas.
how they feel in our class notebook.
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14. 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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16. Positive diary
1. For evaluating positive
actions that the child does
for others
2. With it, children learn how to help other
students and how to feel useful by
themselves 3. For increasing their self-steeme
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17. A Mandala is a concentric draw to be
The Mandalas
colored.
How does it work?:
1. Children are in silence. 4. Every kind of color pencils, markers and finger
2. Each one choose the most suitable paints are provided.
draw to their current mood. 5. Finally, when the time runs out (15
3. Teachers ask how the child feels minutes), kids are asked how they feel
before start. one more time.
6. If the mandala is not finished, it will be
completed next week.
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19. Massages This actity is done once a week
just after recess
Animal massage Auto-face massage
While the teacher tells a tale about With handcream each children
animals, students give the massage
following the story
follow the teacher’s instructions
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20. Visualization
This actity is done once a
week just after recess
1. They relax and listen to
the teacher
2 We talk about the
visualization in assembly
3. Each student draws creatively
his visualization
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21. Emotion games before going
home
Bingo emotions The dice of emotions
Our
handmade
bingo
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22. THE BEAR HUG (before going home)
1. First we all dance
2. Then we hug eachother
or in groups
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23. We work values playing theatre
Play’s title: Pepe and the We work anger,
Green Pixie friendship and respect
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24. Parents, with their children
elaborate tales in the traveler
Parents create tales. The book
characters are their children, It’s written at home.
skills children, values and Children have to fill out a
emotions children worksheet writing about the
family actions and feelings.
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25. An example: A dad is telling a story
about values and emotions
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26. Everybody is
friendly and Trouble shooting using
relaxed easy tools
Parents
are
happy
Everyone is
happy and better
with ourselves
Conclussion
and with others
Improve
teachers,
Control the Increase the
parents and
emotions creativity
children
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