Calm Body Visuals

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE (25 pages)

• 6 cue posters, one per page, each with kid pictures, a big title and one line in kid words: feet on the floor, hands still, eyes on the speaker, quiet mouth, listening ears, sitting tall.
• 1 all-six poster, "My Calm Body", for a single wall.
• 6 cue cards to cut, with a picture, a title and one short line each, in color and in ink-saver.
• 6 desk-strip cues to cut, 4 strips on a sheet, in color and in ink-saver. Cut each row into a strip and tape it to a desk.
• 60 pieces to cut in all (30 in color, 30 in ink-saver), set edge to edge so each cut is one straight line.
• 2 student pages: My Calm Body Check (color a star each day for each cue, Monday to Friday) and a draw page ("Draw yourself with a calm body").
• Teacher pages: how to set up your cues (with blanks for your own class words), 5 short routines to teach them, a page for aides, subs and home, a weekly class tally with a filled example week (an invented class), a note to families, a phrase bank of 20 starters in 5 groups, and a binder cover with spine and 4 tabs.
• Terms of use and a thank-you page.

How To Use It

Hang the posters at children's eye level. Cut the cue cards and keep them in your hand or on a ring. Cut the desk strips and tape one to each desk. Teach one cue at a time with the five short routines (show it, try it, spot it, point do not talk, check it). At the end of the day, children color a star on their check. At the end of the week, count the stars on the tally.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

Every student page has a big "My name" line, one short direction with a picture, and room to color or draw. The pictures are friendly kid art, big enough to read from across the room. Cut pages come in a color set and an ink-saver set, and everything reads in black and white too.

Type In, Or Print

The name lines, the draw page, the class tally, the family note and every notes area are type-in fields in any PDF reader. You can also print any page and write by hand. Print at 100 percent with fit-to-page turned off. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

PreK to 3rd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, paraprofessionals, substitutes, and families who want the same cues at home.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Classroom posters and working paper for a few body cues. It is not a curriculum, a therapy program or a behavior plan, and it makes no health claims. Your school decides its own rules; the setup page gives you blanks to write your own class words.