Here's the Recess Handbook I created. I would welcome any and all input. Our primary goal in establishing zones with supervision is to reduce disciplinary referrals from the playground. We also have students sent to the office when conflict resolution could more effectively be handled on the playground. A great way to lay out expectations for students and staff. Table of Contents ● Peace Club Skills ● Zones ● Expectations and Staff Responses ● Peace Path Poster ● Recess Rules ● Article: Coaching Children in Handling Everyday Conflicts

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Complete Sensory Path Bundles Our Complete Sensory Path Bundles make ordering fast and easy. The bundles come in 4 different sizes to meet your budget and your needs. All our complete sensory path bundles encourage movement and activity with cool down and focusing elements to increase self-regulation. Fun for indoor recess or taking a brain break during the school day.  Great for adding Letter and Number Recognition to children’s play. Included in the Small Sensory Path Bundle: $770 Stop Sign Black Outline Hopscotch Alphabet Circles Stepping Swirls x 2 Shoe Hop Small Push Up Wall Countdown Numbers Included in the Medium Sensory Path Bundle: $824 Start Finish Add-On Alphabet Circles Black Outline Hopscotch Tracing Shaping Action Stars Directional Jump Circles x 40 Included in the Large Sensory Path Bundle: $920 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-6 Balance Arrows Bear Crawl Countdown Numbers Leap Frog Directional Jump Steeping Swirls x 2 Included in the XLarge Sensory Path Bundle: $1085 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-10 Small Push Up Wall Leap Frog Stepping Swirls x 4 Bear Crawl Kangaroo Jump Balance Arrows Purchase Orders We accept purchase orders from your school or organization.   Please be sure to include: your contact name, email address and phone number (in case we have any questions) purchase order number date of purchase order quote or estimate number (if previously requested) billing information including contact name, phone number, email address (if available), billing address and fax number shipping information if different than billing address products name, SKU’s and quantity order total authorized signature of purchaser You may submit your purchase orders by faxing or emailing them to us.  You may also upload your P.O. online to us using our contact form. Email: [email protected] Fax: (816) 432-8180 Please review our Terms and Conditions before submitting your purchase order. Application We want to make decal application as easy as possible. We use premium printed 3M® vinyl for easy installations. Complete vinyl application decals are included with every order and can be found on our Decal Application page. We, Lemon and Grey Designs LLC, believe this product information to be accurate. However, since we cannot anticipate or control the conditions under the applied decals, we cannot guarantee results obtained through their use. We recommend users testing the products to determine the suitability of our decals for a specific purpose. All decals are sold without warranty, either expressed or implied. If you have any questions or concerns regarding returns or exchanges, please visit our Terms and Conditions page. Shipping For information on our shipping policies, shipping insurance and lost or damaged packages, please visit our Shipping page. Questions Please email our customer service with any questions or concerns at [email protected]. You can also message our customer service using the contact form on the Contact Us page.

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Complete Sensory Path Bundles Our Complete Sensory Path Bundles make ordering fast and easy. The bundles come in 4 different sizes to meet your budget and your needs. All our complete sensory path bundles encourage movement and activity with cool down and focusing elements to increase self-regulation. Fun for indoor recess or taking a brain break during the school day.  Great for adding Letter and Number Recognition to children’s play. Included in the Small Sensory Path Bundle: $770 Stop Sign Black Outline Hopscotch Alphabet Circles Stepping Swirls x 2 Shoe Hop Small Push Up Wall Countdown Numbers Included in the Medium Sensory Path Bundle: $824 Start Finish Add-On Alphabet Circles Black Outline Hopscotch Tracing Shaping Action Stars Directional Jump Circles x 40 Included in the Large Sensory Path Bundle: $920 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-6 Balance Arrows Bear Crawl Countdown Numbers Leap Frog Directional Jump Steeping Swirls x 2 Included in the XLarge Sensory Path Bundle: $1085 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-10 Small Push Up Wall Leap Frog Stepping Swirls x 4 Bear Crawl Kangaroo Jump Balance Arrows Purchase Orders We accept purchase orders from your school or organization.   Please be sure to include: your contact name, email address and phone number (in case we have any questions) purchase order number date of purchase order quote or estimate number (if previously requested) billing information including contact name, phone number, email address (if available), billing address and fax number shipping information if different than billing address products name, SKU’s and quantity order total authorized signature of purchaser You may submit your purchase orders by faxing or emailing them to us.  You may also upload your P.O. online to us using our contact form. Email: [email protected] Fax: (816) 432-8180 Please review our Terms and Conditions before submitting your purchase order. Application We want to make decal application as easy as possible. We use premium printed 3M® vinyl for easy installations. Complete vinyl application decals are included with every order and can be found on our Decal Application page. We, Lemon and Grey Designs LLC, believe this product information to be accurate. However, since we cannot anticipate or control the conditions under the applied decals, we cannot guarantee results obtained through their use. We recommend users testing the products to determine the suitability of our decals for a specific purpose. All decals are sold without warranty, either expressed or implied. If you have any questions or concerns regarding returns or exchanges, please visit our Terms and Conditions page. Shipping For information on our shipping policies, shipping insurance and lost or damaged packages, please visit our Shipping page. Questions Please email our customer service with any questions or concerns at [email protected]. You can also message our customer service using the contact form on the Contact Us page.

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Complete Sensory Path Bundles Our Complete Sensory Path Bundles make ordering fast and easy. The bundles come in 4 different sizes to meet your budget and your needs. All our complete sensory path bundles encourage movement and activity with cool down and focusing elements to increase self-regulation. Fun for indoor recess or taking a brain break during the school day.  Great for adding Letter and Number Recognition to children’s play. Included in the Small Sensory Path Bundle: $770 Stop Sign Black Outline Hopscotch Alphabet Circles Stepping Swirls x 2 Shoe Hop Small Push Up Wall Countdown Numbers Included in the Medium Sensory Path Bundle: $824 Start Finish Add-On Alphabet Circles Black Outline Hopscotch Tracing Shaping Action Stars Directional Jump Circles x 40 Included in the Large Sensory Path Bundle: $920 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-6 Balance Arrows Bear Crawl Countdown Numbers Leap Frog Directional Jump Steeping Swirls x 2 Included in the XLarge Sensory Path Bundle: $1085 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-10 Small Push Up Wall Leap Frog Stepping Swirls x 4 Bear Crawl Kangaroo Jump Balance Arrows Purchase Orders We accept purchase orders from your school or organization.   Please be sure to include: your contact name, email address and phone number (in case we have any questions) purchase order number date of purchase order quote or estimate number (if previously requested) billing information including contact name, phone number, email address (if available), billing address and fax number shipping information if different than billing address products name, SKU’s and quantity order total authorized signature of purchaser You may submit your purchase orders by faxing or emailing them to us.  You may also upload your P.O. online to us using our contact form. Email: [email protected] Fax: (816) 432-8180 Please review our Terms and Conditions before submitting your purchase order. Application We want to make decal application as easy as possible. We use premium printed 3M® vinyl for easy installations. Complete vinyl application decals are included with every order and can be found on our Decal Application page. We, Lemon and Grey Designs LLC, believe this product information to be accurate. However, since we cannot anticipate or control the conditions under the applied decals, we cannot guarantee results obtained through their use. We recommend users testing the products to determine the suitability of our decals for a specific purpose. All decals are sold without warranty, either expressed or implied. If you have any questions or concerns regarding returns or exchanges, please visit our Terms and Conditions page. Shipping For information on our shipping policies, shipping insurance and lost or damaged packages, please visit our Shipping page. Questions Please email our customer service with any questions or concerns at [email protected]. You can also message our customer service using the contact form on the Contact Us page.

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This post contains affiliate links. **Update August 2020 - It is possible to utilize or create a path to fully support social distancing. Such spaces will be all the more important if other practices are limited or modified. For virtual learning, we might support families in creating appropriate paths or spaces at home.** You may have seen the video that went viral of a young boy walking, stretching, and hopping along a path that a special education teacher designed, painted, and implemented in the elementary school where she works. She labored over the path for more than 80 hours, creating something special for the students in her school. A sensory path is meant to help a child use their own bodies and environment to calm themselves down. They use their muscles, breathing, and spatial awareness to make their way through the path and walk away from it reset and refreshed. When teachers know certain students in their class would benefit from movement breaks, they can allow students to leave class (in our space the students would leave with a madrich or madrichah - Hebrew for classroom assistant) and move through the sensory break path. It’s a preventative measure, geared toward improving focus and preventing disruptive behavior before it occurs. In our space we already have students who need breaks throughout the session walking laps around our building. I designed this as a productive alternative. If you’ve seen the sensory path that went viral (image above), it is quite obviously a labor of love, but it is also rather busy. In my opinion there’s almost too much going on. It's always important to strike the right balance between a positive sensory experience and sensory overload. I also think that while wonderful for younger children, this path would seem too juvenile for older elementary and middle school students, who might dismiss it out-of-hand. So, like many others out there, I designed my own. Also a labor of love, I might add; it just took me much less than 80 hours to complete. Rather than paint I used colorful floor tape that can be removed. (Additional items include: large footprint decals, red floor marking tape, green floor marking tape, orange floor marking tape, hand-print decals, spiral wall decal.) I was aware of the limits of our space. Most importantly, our supplemental religious school serves children in PreK through grade 12, so I was wanted to create something that would be appropriate for the variety of ages. All students can use the path from time to time, to ground them on days when they’re feeling hyped up, anxious, or overstimulated in class. As expected, the space was an immediate hit. The most rousing endorsement came from two parents; one who is a physical therapist and the other who is both an early childhood educator and the mother of one of our students who typically walks laps around our building. My favorite moment was when a few third grade boys came to try it out. One, after whipping through it, declared that it was “too easy”. I tried to explain that it wasn’t a race, but he wasn’t listening. Nevertheless, word spread fast and few minutes later the rest of the third grade class wanted to try it out, so back he came along with his peers. Before his turn he again declared, “But it’s so easy.” This time I shared, “It’s not an obstacle course, it’s a sensory path. Do you know what sensory means?” “You mean like our senses?” he asked. “Yes. Some people need a short break from their work to clear their head. Others need to get their blood flowing again so they can get back to work.” “OK,” and off he went, back through the path. As he neared the end I asked, “So, is your blood flowing?” “Yeah, now it is.” The value of using spaces like this, fidgets, or any other tool meant to help a student find success is the context in which the tool is presented. Using the language of “this is a tool to help you” or “let’s take a sensory break,” enables students to more effectively speak about their needs and advocate for themselves in productive and meaningful ways. I think one of our third grade girls had the most important insight of the day: As she completed the path she declared, “Oh, these need to be EVERYWHERE. I’m telling my mom we need one in our house.” For more research on the benefits of sensory breaks read: The Impact of Sensory-Based Movement Activities on Students in General Education. Updated June 2019: ***NEW*** To keep this space interesting for our students I added new elements (and will aim to do so each year). I purchased the spiral sticker and hand-print stickers below. Here are pictures of how this new pieces look: Here are all the products I used to create this space: Contact me to design a sensory break space for your setting or for additional professional development in using such tools effectively. Never miss a post from Removing the Stumbling Block:

This printable Roll the Dice indoor exercise game is a fun and easy way to keep kids moving at home or during indoor recess!

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A sensory path, sensory pathway or sensory hall, is a colorful, creative, and playful way for kids to build connections in the brain that are responsible for sight, touch, sound, etc., which enable kids to complete complex, multi-stage tasks. Sensory paths are also great brain break ideas!

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If you're stuck inside the classroom due to bad weather, this collection of indoor recess activities has heaps of ideas to help students blow off steam!

The Sensory Path designs beautiful and engaging sensory pathways for schools and other institutions. Address kids' sensory needs with our unique products!

Complete Sensory Path Bundles Our Complete Sensory Path Bundles make ordering fast and easy. The bundles come in 4 different sizes to meet your budget and your needs. All our complete sensory path bundles encourage movement and activity with cool down and focusing elements to increase self-regulation. Fun for indoor recess or taking a brain break during the school day.  Great for adding Letter and Number Recognition to children’s play. Included in the Small Sensory Path Bundle: $770 Stop Sign Black Outline Hopscotch Alphabet Circles Stepping Swirls x 2 Shoe Hop Small Push Up Wall Countdown Numbers Included in the Medium Sensory Path Bundle: $824 Start Finish Add-On Alphabet Circles Black Outline Hopscotch Tracing Shaping Action Stars Directional Jump Circles x 40 Included in the Large Sensory Path Bundle: $920 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-6 Balance Arrows Bear Crawl Countdown Numbers Leap Frog Directional Jump Steeping Swirls x 2 Included in the XLarge Sensory Path Bundle: $1085 Stop Sign Sun and Vine #1-10 Small Push Up Wall Leap Frog Stepping Swirls x 4 Bear Crawl Kangaroo Jump Balance Arrows Purchase Orders We accept purchase orders from your school or organization.   Please be sure to include: your contact name, email address and phone number (in case we have any questions) purchase order number date of purchase order quote or estimate number (if previously requested) billing information including contact name, phone number, email address (if available), billing address and fax number shipping information if different than billing address products name, SKU’s and quantity order total authorized signature of purchaser You may submit your purchase orders by faxing or emailing them to us.  You may also upload your P.O. online to us using our contact form. Email: [email protected] Fax: (816) 432-8180 Please review our Terms and Conditions before submitting your purchase order. Application We want to make decal application as easy as possible. We use premium printed 3M® vinyl for easy installations. Complete vinyl application decals are included with every order and can be found on our Decal Application page. We, Lemon and Grey Designs LLC, believe this product information to be accurate. However, since we cannot anticipate or control the conditions under the applied decals, we cannot guarantee results obtained through their use. We recommend users testing the products to determine the suitability of our decals for a specific purpose. All decals are sold without warranty, either expressed or implied. If you have any questions or concerns regarding returns or exchanges, please visit our Terms and Conditions page. Shipping For information on our shipping policies, shipping insurance and lost or damaged packages, please visit our Shipping page. Questions Please email our customer service with any questions or concerns at [email protected]. You can also message our customer service using the contact form on the Contact Us page.

This post contains affiliate links. **Update August 2020 - It is possible to utilize or create a path to fully support social distancing. Such spaces will be all the more important if other practices are limited or modified. For virtual learning, we might support families in creating appropriate paths or spaces at home.** You may have seen the video that went viral of a young boy walking, stretching, and hopping along a path that a special education teacher designed, painted, and implemented in the elementary school where she works. She labored over the path for more than 80 hours, creating something special for the students in her school. A sensory path is meant to help a child use their own bodies and environment to calm themselves down. They use their muscles, breathing, and spatial awareness to make their way through the path and walk away from it reset and refreshed. When teachers know certain students in their class would benefit from movement breaks, they can allow students to leave class (in our space the students would leave with a madrich or madrichah - Hebrew for classroom assistant) and move through the sensory break path. It’s a preventative measure, geared toward improving focus and preventing disruptive behavior before it occurs. In our space we already have students who need breaks throughout the session walking laps around our building. I designed this as a productive alternative. If you’ve seen the sensory path that went viral (image above), it is quite obviously a labor of love, but it is also rather busy. In my opinion there’s almost too much going on. It's always important to strike the right balance between a positive sensory experience and sensory overload. I also think that while wonderful for younger children, this path would seem too juvenile for older elementary and middle school students, who might dismiss it out-of-hand. So, like many others out there, I designed my own. Also a labor of love, I might add; it just took me much less than 80 hours to complete. Rather than paint I used colorful floor tape that can be removed. (Additional items include: large footprint decals, red floor marking tape, green floor marking tape, orange floor marking tape, hand-print decals, spiral wall decal.) I was aware of the limits of our space. Most importantly, our supplemental religious school serves children in PreK through grade 12, so I was wanted to create something that would be appropriate for the variety of ages. All students can use the path from time to time, to ground them on days when they’re feeling hyped up, anxious, or overstimulated in class. As expected, the space was an immediate hit. The most rousing endorsement came from two parents; one who is a physical therapist and the other who is both an early childhood educator and the mother of one of our students who typically walks laps around our building. My favorite moment was when a few third grade boys came to try it out. One, after whipping through it, declared that it was “too easy”. I tried to explain that it wasn’t a race, but he wasn’t listening. Nevertheless, word spread fast and few minutes later the rest of the third grade class wanted to try it out, so back he came along with his peers. Before his turn he again declared, “But it’s so easy.” This time I shared, “It’s not an obstacle course, it’s a sensory path. Do you know what sensory means?” “You mean like our senses?” he asked. “Yes. Some people need a short break from their work to clear their head. Others need to get their blood flowing again so they can get back to work.” “OK,” and off he went, back through the path. As he neared the end I asked, “So, is your blood flowing?” “Yeah, now it is.” The value of using spaces like this, fidgets, or any other tool meant to help a student find success is the context in which the tool is presented. Using the language of “this is a tool to help you” or “let’s take a sensory break,” enables students to more effectively speak about their needs and advocate for themselves in productive and meaningful ways. I think one of our third grade girls had the most important insight of the day: As she completed the path she declared, “Oh, these need to be EVERYWHERE. I’m telling my mom we need one in our house.” For more research on the benefits of sensory breaks read: The Impact of Sensory-Based Movement Activities on Students in General Education. Updated June 2019: ***NEW*** To keep this space interesting for our students I added new elements (and will aim to do so each year). I purchased the spiral sticker and hand-print stickers below. Here are pictures of how this new pieces look: Here are all the products I used to create this space: Contact me to design a sensory break space for your setting or for additional professional development in using such tools effectively. Never miss a post from Removing the Stumbling Block:

How many of these recess games from childhood do you remember?

Link to the Park, Playground, recess resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Playground-Verbs-for-Elementary-ELL-2073587 or here: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/playground-park-recess-verbs-theme-for-elementary-ell Books: give children access to lots of books. I always include a book in each blog post because I know how hard it is to find the adequate reader and how expensive they are abroad. Read the story aloud to the class. Point to the pictures, words, letters, sentences and periods in each page. Have the book easily accessible so the children can grab it to read at any time. Parents can help at home, give them access to the stories you use if they are online or have them borrow from you. I have this funny character clip art, I have made more books using this guy. I have called him Mr. Big Nose. Park Board Game: you can create your own board game using the pieces provided and a colored file folder. The players will move game pieces in the spaces naming the verbs. Give them simple rules to follow. Students can play in small groups or with the teacher. Command chain. Teacher: run. Jump. Students: run. Jump ( perform the actions) Teacher: run. Jump. Walk. Students: run. Jump. Walk. ( perform the actions) Playground Verb Bingo Game: Print 2 copies of the verb cards .Glue one set of the cards onto a colored file folder. Make copies of either the blank format where the children will draw 4 of their favorite actions in the playground or the spelling Bingo where children will write 6 verbs. Call out Bingo with the other set of cards. On the board: have a student come to the front. Have him/her walk. Teacher: He is walking. Write walk + ing on the board. Explain that the ING is for actions that are occurring as the same time as we speak. Practice with more verbs Actions and numbers: Teacher: Hop three times. Run until five. One, two, three, four, five. Walk steps. One, two. Playground Verb number cards: All the cards have a number and and an action verb. Teacher: Number 1. Students: Jumping/jump. Teacher: run Students: Number 4. Match Cards: use them as memory cards or as matching picture card to a word card activity. Have students mime all the actions. Teacher: jump! Students: (Mime ) Jump ! Jump ! Have a student come to the front. Teacher: Can you hop? Show me, please. Student: (hops) I can hop. Point to himself. Class: He can hop. (Points to the boy.) Use the HE /SHE pointer. Flash cards help children learn key vocabulary. Pronounce each word as you demonstrate and interact with the flashcard. The flashcards can be used as word wall, hang them using a clothespin. Have children find the words in the flashcard as they read the story book. Flashcards Activities Activity 1: Teacher: What is he doing ? Students: He is running. Repeat with all the other flashcards. Also, have students find a similar action in their student book and point to it. Activity 2: Place all the flashcards on the floor .Have students throw the bean bag to the verb and mime the action. Teacher: The girl is walking. Activity 3: Teacher: What can she do ? Students: She can walk.Activity 4: place the actions flashcards on the board ledge. Point to each one and ask the class if they can do it and have them perform the action. Teacher: Can you run ? Student: Yes, I can. (Students run.) Activity 5: place all the flashcards on the board. Name an action and have a student come to the front, point to it and name the action. Activity 6: place the flashcards on the floor. Have enough bottle caps in a box. Teacher: He is riding a bike. Put one bottle cap on the flashcard. She is walking. Put two bottle caps. Graphing and pocket charts: use the printables for both. The children can use a card with their name to place below their favorite playground object. Sentence Association game: This game is always a favorite even with adults. It as simple as matching a sentence with a picture. Anchor charts: use them for children to refer to. An anchor chart too far away from their sight is not useful. Children can create an anchor chart small enough to keep near at their group table and check it when needed. I did this one with a file folder.It is a resource for children to remember new vocabulary words. Place a border around the anchor chart if displaying in class to give focus to the chart. Write on cards: place clear contact paper or place the sheet into transparent paper sheets protector. Students can write with white board markers and then erase it. Create your park scene . Teacher: This is a park. Look ! Point to all the park items. Students read the colors assigned to each park item. Playground Scene Diorama! Flashcards: here are the playground items. More flashcards featuring children at the park. Example 1: Review the items that can be found at the playground or park using the flashcards. Example 2. Print the slide as in my example or use any other playground item. Use the clear plastic sheet and a white board marker. Dictate what to draw. Teacher: Draw a ball on the slide. Teacher: Draw a butterfly under the slide. Teacher: Draw a bird behind the slide. Teacher: Draw a flower in front of the slide. Watch the Video Worksheets! Create a playground. The possibilities are endless. I will make mine to share here as an example. Please show me your student’s work. ([email protected]) You can create your own version without the templates here using magazine cutouts or toys around the house. Here is a video on how I put everything together. The idea is to start placing the park elements into the park scene and say a sentence. The girl is in front of the swing. Keep going to practice prepositions. This will be fun to show on distance learning. Here is another video on how it can be done as a speaking activity. Students can create their own park and make their own video. 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Our SEL Department developed a Peace Path that students can use in the classroom to help resolve conflict with their peers. You can take a look of how it works as part of our Peace Areas at Lee Elementary here. While this is a great tool for students to use while they're in the classroom, students are left stranded out on the playground when they have conflict. After campuses inquired about how to translate these skills to the outdoor playgrounds, our SEL department created stencils to create a sidewalk Peace Path (thank you, thank you, thank you)! Here is a quick video I took walking through the Peace Path so you can see each of the steps. It took 3-4 hours over 2 days to create the finished product with two people, myself and Joelle Andrew - an amazing parent volunteer/super hero. :) Our playground Peace Path provides students, teachers and our entire campus a space and a method that is safe, sincere, and easy to follow for conflict resolution. It is another effort towards student empowerment to self-regulate and solve their problems. Ours is strategically placed between 2 of our playgrounds and has already been a huge hit with the Roadrunners! Once completed I took out each class to teach them how to use it. We began by brainstorming common problems that happen with our friends out on the playground: I had students pair up and brainstorm a "problem" to resolve with their partner, real or fake. Then we headed outside to practice! Our Peace Path has been a huge success! Not only are teachers on board and helping students through conflict resolution steps at recess, but children are initiating its use during our aftercare program and kids have even been caught & featured on Instagram! Here are some individual shots of each step:

The Sensory Path designs beautiful and engaging sensory pathways for schools and other institutions. Address kids' sensory needs with our unique products!