top of page

Self-Regulation: What Zone Are You In?


Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go ~ Mooji

As I explained how your body engine runs in each of the zones, the students colored that color on a flap of their flip book. An important,yet complicated message at all grade levels: All Zones can have EXPECTED and UNEXPECTED behaviors...lots of rich discussion around this. The student's final product looked something like this:

[insert photo of flip book]

I then went over strategies for helping our bodies get back into the green zone (which is the ready to learn zone). I used a couple of visuals that look a little like these:

(Pin by Sheequa Francis, Pinterest)

( Pinterest)

The image above was used for educator's reference and left in each teacher's classroom to support the children's learning of the concepts.

The students added strategies for each zone that was personal and helpful to them as we reviewed the different ones. The end result was their very own toolbox of strategies for regulating themselves when discovering they have slipped into an unexpected zone.

To finish off this activity, w took video clips from some of our favorite Disney and Pixar videos and used our tool boxes for voting to determine a character's zone. A special thanks to Kristina Kern who shared her Zones info with me!

Here is the Frozen clip I used (YouTube) to illustrate Olaf's green zone:

This is the Toy Story clip I used (YouTube) to illustrate Bullseye's Red zone:

I also used a clip from Inside out and Winnie the Pooh which added some variety and practice with the zones.

For any teachers out there wanting to extend any of these lessons, I found this website for Zones activities that looks promising: http://mrsduranteszones.weebly.com/the-zones-of-regulation.html

Now get out there and enjoy working in the Zones and increasing our student awareness around SELF-REGULATION!

Featured Posts
Recent Posts
Archive
Search By Tags
No tags yet.
Follow Us
  • Facebook Basic Square
  • Twitter Basic Square
  • Google+ Basic Square
bottom of page