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Ms. Picard from Jackson Heights NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Being Mindful in the Visual Arts Continues!

Help me give my students books to facilitate mindfulness in the visual arts!

  • $769 goal

This project expired on May 19, 2021.

This project expired on May 19, 2021.

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students are creative, they love to learn, explore, and to work with a variety of art mediums. They love to make art and look forward to it every week. Even the more hesitant students to create art, always find one particular project or unit plan that truly engages them completely. The diversity of my students is immense, ranging from different abilities and needs, different ages, different cultural backgrounds, and different household incomes. This is what I absolutely love about them, their diversity, and all the different things every single one of them brings to art due to their own personal experiences.

My students are eager to create art, to learn about art history, and to explore and express themselves in the endless possible ways that the visual arts gives them the opportunity to do.

Every student has a medium or type of art that they enjoy working with and are successful with. It is my role as their art teacher, to help them discover their potential and abilities. I am here to help them explore, grow, and to discover what it is that they are successful at in art. As well as provide support throughout the process.

My Project

Research indicates that mindfulness can help children improve their abilities to pay attention, to calm down when they are upset and to make better decisions, It helps with emotional regulation and cognitive focus.

"The purpose of teaching mindfulness to our children is to give them skills to develop their awareness of their inner and outer experiences, to understand how emotions manifest in their bodies and to recognize when their attention has wandered and to provide tools for control."

We have been exploring feelings in the visual arts including how we can regulate them, as well as how they are connected to the art that we create. We regularly practice mindfulness in the visual arts, these books will help us to continue to practice and explore mindfulness within the visual arts. These books will be a great resource for my students continuing practice of mindfulness. By continuing to practice mindfulness in the Visual Arts, students will learn the necessary coping skills to be resilient, empathetic, and to understand their own feelings and emotions.

Ms. Picard
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Little SPOT of Emotion Box Set (8 Books: Anger, Anxiety, Peaceful, Happiness, Sadness, Confidence, Love, & Scribble Emotion) • Amazon Business $43.90 1 $43.90
Listening to My Body: A guide to helping kids understand the connection between their sensations (what the heck are those?) and feelings so that they can get better at figuring out what they need • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
The Color Monster: A Pop-Up Book of Feelings • Amazon Business $18.51 1 $18.51
When Sadness is at Your Door • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Elmer's Walk • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
The Long Right Way • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Life Without Nico • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
My Magic Breath: Finding Calm Through Mindful Breathing • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
Emily Winfield Martin's Dreamers Board Boxed Set: Dream Animals; Day Dreamers • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
All About Feelings • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Kindness Book • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
The Good Egg • Amazon Business $15.27 1 $15.27
My Heart • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
All Shapes Matter • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Don't Worry Book • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
The Way I Feel • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
Little Tree • Amazon Business $14.86 1 $14.86
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $14.52 1 $14.52
Pass It On • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
The Color Monster Goes to School • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
Field Guide to the Grumpasaurus • Amazon Business $14.11 1 $14.11
ABC for Me: ABC Yoga: Join us and the animals out in nature and learn some yoga! (ABC for Me, 1) • Amazon Business $13.87 1 $13.87
Ruby Finds a Worry (Big Bright Feelings) • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents) • Amazon Business $13.70 1 $13.70
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Growth Mindset Workbook for Kids: 55 Fun Activities to Think Creatively, Solve Problems, and Love Learning • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Visiting Feelings • Amazon Business $13.46 1 $13.46
My Many Coloured Days • Amazon Business $13.15 1 $13.15
B is for Breathe: The ABCs of Coping with Fussy and Frustrating Feelings • Amazon Business $12.86 1 $12.86
Spoon (The Spoon Series, 1) • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Mindfulness Workbook for Kids: 60+ Activities to Focus, Stay Calm, and Make Good Choices • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Rough Patch • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Feeling Flower • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
My Heart Fills With Happiness • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Calm with The Very Hungry Caterpillar (The World of Eric Carle) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Master of Mindfulness: How to Be Your Own Superhero in Times of Stress • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
La Catrina: Emotions - Emociones (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.72 1 $8.72
I Am Yoga (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
The Feelings Book • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Making Faces: A First Book of Emotions • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $7.47 1 $7.47
Grumpy Monkey • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97

Materials cost

$613.83

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$653.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$115.24

Total project goal

$768.28

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