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🌈 Big feelings, simple tools: Mindfulness for young learners
Explore simple classroom activities, kid-friendly movement tools, and engaging resources to help K–2 students manage big emotions.
Karly Moura & Christina Sciarrotto
September 29, 2026
Mindfulness in K-2
Young children naturally experience big emotions, and learning to pause and connect with their surroundings can help them build self-awareness and emotional resilience. This week, we are sharing easy, playful activities—like simple breathing games and quiet listening exercises—that you can try together at home. By practicing these small daily moments of calm, we can support our students in feeling balanced, focused, and ready to learn.
Inside:
💡 Tips, Tools and Templates: Mindfulness for young learners
📺 Teaching with TeachFlix Junior: Rainbow Panda
😄 Giggle of the Week: Students from Last Year
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💡 Tips, Tools and Templates
Mindfulness for young learners
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Helping young learners build self-awareness and emotional regulation works best when mindfulness activities are short, simple, and visual. Explore these classroom-tested tools to bring calm moments into your daily routine:
First Five Perfect for quick, daily transitions—try grounded grounding exercises like the 5-4-3-2-1 sensory check-in or simple belly breathing to help early primary students settle into the day.
ClassroomZen: Contains interactive noise visualizers, guided breathing exercises, brain breaks, and quick academic warm-ups designed to help teachers foster a calm, focused, and well-managed elementary classroom.
PBS’s Let’s Learn: Features engaging, research-backed video clips and skill sheets designed to help K–2 students understand their feelings and learn managing techniques through familiar characters.
GoNoodle: Kid-friendly movement and mindfulness channel that lead energetic classes through guided breathing, stretching, and calming visualization.
Microsoft Reflect: An interactive emotion-tracking tool using friendly "Feelings Monster" visuals to help young students identify their moods during check-ins (Note: Requires a free or organizational Microsoft Account to set up check-ins).
📺 Teaching with Teachflix Junior
🌈🐼 Rainbow Panda
🎥 Video Link: Rainbow Panda Read Aloud
Deep in the jungle, a black-and-white panda feels sad that he lacks the vibrant colors of his animal friends until his mother teaches him about the seven chakras. By discovering the colorful energy centers within himself through yoga and mindfulness, he learns to embrace his unique inner beauty and self-worth.
Ready-made video resources:
✏️ Resource #1: Learn more about our chakras and our feelings with this simple chart: Our Chakras, Our Behaviors, Our Feelings
✏️ Resource #2: Have fun coloring Rainbow Panda: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HrMom9AKU8aevW5dJCCAWqZ-FzvKUmV1/view?usp=sharing
✏️ Resource #3: Visit Lisa Muchnik’s website for yoga videos: https://www.lisamuchnik.com/resources
✏️ Resource #4: Mindfulness Journal: https://www.canva.com/templates/EAFTgZSLqbU/
✏️ Resource #5: Calming Strategies: https://www.canva.com/templates/EAE5ifjbqHg/
✏️ Resource #6: Visual Breathing: https://www.canva.com/templates/EAGwZMRnfoY/
✏️ Resource #7: Calming Sequence: https://www.canva.com/templates/EAGwZFxfRQk/
🤭 Giggle of the Week
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