Calming Area

Funded Mar 13, 2023

Thank you so much for the requested items. We are using these items as a calming area where students are able to take a break from their peer issues or difficulty concentrating in the classroom by playing with fidget toys and sitting on comfortable items. Students have also practiced different types of deep breathing and read books while in the calming tent.

The students reacted positively to these items. Not one student declined to spend time in the calming corner. The calming corner supported the school when students displayed high emotions in the classroom. Once this PSW came to support, this PSW offered the calming corner and most students stopped their yelling and throwing of items to spend time processing their feelings in the calming corner.

The calming corner will be used in the upcoming school years to teach students to practice asking for a break, taking deep breaths, and getting comfortable with fidget items to decrease their high emotions and to be able to calm down before reacting negatively. They will then have the opportunity to tell this PSW what happened and how to make things better in the future.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Montez