Year 4 - Physical education
Use mindfulness techniques to help manage emotions
Health and wellbeing: mindfulness, meditative balances and relaxation techniques
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Unit Summary
This unit will focus on exploring positive and negative emotions and managing them through using mindfulness techniques such as visualisation, meditative balances, mime and deep breathing. Pupils will understand why these techniques are important for a healthy mind to support our overall wellbeing.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use movement and expression to perform a range of actions that represent emotions that you may experience in life.
Key Notes
- Move: moving our bodies to music requires us to perform actions with clear, defined movements that express emotion.
- Think: understanding the words of a song helps create meaningful actions to express our emotion.
- Feel: striving to always try your best, even if you feel embarrassed or you find it difficult, shows self-motivation.
- Connect: helping others in the group to create movements linked to words shows cooperation and trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- emotions: feelings that we have in response to a situation, event or thought that influence our mood or behaviour
- actions: movements that show specific meanings, emotions or technical skills.
- expression: showing how you feel
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may feel uncomfortable or vulnerable when reflecting on the abstract ideas of the poem, which can make it difficult for them to focus, relax and link their work to the meaning of the poem.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: moving our bodies to music requires us to perform actions with clear, defined movements that express emotion. Think: understanding the words of a song helps create meaningful actions to express our emotion.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'emotions'
feelings that we have in response to a situation, event or thought that influence our mood or behaviour.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils may feel uncomfortable or vulnerable when reflecting on the abstract ideas of the poem, which can make it difficult for them to focus, relax and link their work to the meaning of the poem. Correction: Support pupils to open their minds to new concepts and to focus only on themself when reflecting. Explain to pupils that only by trying something with full effort and concentration can the benefits be felt.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Combine and perform mime with meditative balances Study Guide
- Create movement sequences to express emotions Study Guide
- Interpret music to create expressive movement Study Guide
- Performing meditative balances incorporating mindfulness techniques Study Guide
- Use mime to explore positive and negative emotions Study Guide
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