First Grade - Rachel Sattinger 
"In the fall, several faculty attended the Mindfulness in Education conference in Oakland. I was introduced to a beautiful book Anh's Anger, by Gail Silver with illustrations by Christiane Kromer, the story of a young boy who gets angry when he is asked by his grandfather to clean up his blocks and come to dinner.  Grandfather asks Anh to go to his room and sit with his anger. The lovely illustrations in the book show Anh and his Anger singing, dancing and stomping their feet together until finally his Anger tires out and they are able to sit together and breathe.

First graders, being the concrete thinkers that they are, were really able to identify with the idea of anger personified. We decided to draw our anger."

On the right is one student's drawing which he explained like this:
"This is my anger. This red person is me sitting and doing mindful breathing. The red arrows show my anger getting smaller."



Third Grade - Kaia Huseby 

Third graders transform their classroom into a wetland for Ocean Day.