Mindful Thoughts Journal Bundle: Mindfulness / SEL Journal

Are you looking for a way to give your students the support they need to develop a growth mindset, increase their mindfulness and build important social emotional skills? Look no further than the Mindful Thoughts Bundle! This amazing bundle includes engaging journals that are designed to spark your students' creativity and help them learn essential skills. Plus, when you purchase the bundle, you'll save big compared to buying the journals individually. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to empower your students to reach their full potential!

The Mindful Thoughts Journals provide a daily dose of mindfulness for students to foster a growth mindset and promote social-emotional learning. Each month, the journal focuses on a different character education concept. For example, the focus of September is respect. Students will reflect on what it means to be respectful, how it feels to be respected, and ways to show respect to others.

The journal has a fall theme to match the season, yet it is designed to be flexible and can be used in any month. Students will be challenged to reflect on the theme of the month, record their daily emotions, express daily a gratitude, track the books they're reading and stretch their creative muscles with daily doodle prompts.

Each journal has downloadable images, Google Slides, and Google Drawings files, it's easy to use the journal through Google Classroom, Seesaw, and other learning management systems.

We created the Mindful Thoughts Journal to help students become more mindful of their thoughts and actions and how they can impact others. As morning work, these mindfulness activities are a great way to start the day on a positive and mindful note, and the journal questions are also great conversation starters during morning meetings. Students can share their thoughts and drawings with each other and discuss what they've learned.

The journal is designed to be printed back-to-back and bound in a three-ring binder, spiral-like binding, or with staples. We recommend using the Swingline ProClip Binding System for a fast, cheap, and easy binding option that looks great.

Included in the journal are mindfulness activities such as a directions spread with glossary, a "currently" page for students to write what they enjoy doing, a reading log, a mood tracker, a daily gratitude page, and weekly spreads with spots to write and draw each day, and a reflection page at the end of the month to develop an action plan for the future.

Included Mindfulness Activities for Students:

★ Directions Spread with Glossary:
There is a small glossary on the Directions spread to help the students complete their Mindful Thoughts Journals independently. We have created the Directions spread as editable allowing you to tweak the directions to best fit your classroom and students.

★ Currently:
Here students will write a few things that they currently enjoy doing. These things will likely change from month to month. The Currently page is a fun keepsake to look back at throughout the year to see how students' likes and dislikes change as they grow.

★ Reading Log:
Here students will write the titles of books that they have read during the month. Students will enjoy tracking their books on this fun themed page.

★ Mood Tracker:
Here students will keep track of how they feel each day. They will color in today’s number with the color that represents how they feel today or felt yesterday depending on when you have your students complete their journals. We recommend having your students work on their Mindful Thoughts Journals in the morning as they are beginning their day and complete the mood tracker for the day before. Keeping track of how your students feel will help them to better understand their emotions, how those emotions are triggered, and how their emotions can influence their day.

★ Daily Gratitude:
Gratitude is about focusing on the good things in our lives and being thankful for what we have. Here students will write one thing that they are grateful for each day. According to Harvard Health Publishing, studies have shown that the practice of expressing gratitude each day "is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships." In a world where everyone from our students to our teachers and administration are feeling stress, teaching self-care practices with mindfulness activities for students like gratitude journals are not only encouraged but essential.

★ Weekly Spreads:
Each two-page spread is designed and laid out a little differently but they all have some of the same pieces. Each spread will have a spot to write and draw each day. We recommend that the students write their answers in complete sentences and expand on their writing. For example, they can explain why. Remember these questions are just to get the students started thinking.

Each day also has a doodle section. This section is meant to be a quick drawing for students to practice their sketching skills, and creative skills and practice expressing themselves. Some spreads have extra doodle sections. We like to have our students complete those sections when they have extra time after they have completed their other work.

★ Reflection:
When the journal is complete, students can think back on the work they’ve done focusing on the theme for this month and develop an action plan for the future.

The Mindful Thoughts Journal is a great way to promote a growth mindset and help students develop essential social emotional learning skills.