Inquiry Blog #5
This week’s mindfulness theme was ‘colouring.’ I found this practice to be a great option for both myself and for use in a classroom for mindfulness. Below I have attached my 2 journal entries as always, in addition to a picture of what I coloured throughout the week.
Summary: I enjoyed the first day of colouring. I’ve always enjoyed colouring and it has worked for me in the past for clearing my mind and calming me down. This time it did the same thing. My initial thought was that I like colouring as a mindfulness practice equally as much as I did for the guided meditation practice. I didn’t have any concerns with implementing colouring into the classroom as a mindfulness practice besides students potentially getting upset if they hadn’t finished their colouring sheet when the time given to colour ends. I’ve experienced many students really getting ‘into the zone’ when colouring which, to me, means that colouring can be a good mindfulness practice for them.
Summary: I highly enjoyed being able to take the time to colour every day throughout the week. I found that some days colouring was more calming than other days. Out of the last three weeks, I think I like guided meditation best, but colouring is a close second. Sometimes the level of difficulty in the colouring sheet affected mindfulness. Colouring in the classroom seems like a great option apart from the amount of time that some colouring sheets take and the frustration that students might feel if they don’t finish. But, from what I’ve observed in schools in the past, colouring works well for students of all energy levels to calm down.
