Activity & Journal Prompt
Activity
Share the activity instructions or print this activity sheet and facilitate with students in class, where appropriate, or offer it as a take-home exercise. We recommend generating follow-up discussions on any take-home activities in order to cultivate mindful reflection. This could be a class activity where students are prompted to share some of their photos and why they took them.
What you’ll need: cell phone camera
Each day this week, take one picture on your way to school or on a daily walk in your neighborhood. Choose anything that catches your eye whether it’s because it’s beautiful, strange, or for any other reason. At the end of the week, look back at the photos and reflect on any patterns you notice (for example, all of the photos were of buildings or people) and/or why you think you chose these images to capture.
Journal Prompt
Share the activity instructions or print this activity sheet and facilitate with students in class, where appropriate, or offer it as a take-home exercise. We recommend drawing as an option if students prefer this to writing, and that responses are for students’ own self-reflection instead of something done for marks.
Write a five senses poem. Choose an environment (a room or any other place), pause, take in what you notice through each of your senses, and write it into a poem. It can be short or long and include all the senses or just a few.
Example:
Sunny skies (Sight) // Birds singing together (Listening) // Cool breeze touches my face (Feeling) // Fresh flowers blooming (Smell)