Safe+Place+Setting+Up

Conscience Discipline--"Safe Place"/Setting Up**Submitted/Created By:** Kelley Carpenter, Kindergarten

**Lesson:** “Safe Place”/Setting Up //(This lesson should be taught after the"Safe Place” introduction lesson.)// [|www.lovingguidance.com] feeling.) 1C Student demonstrates awareness of their external supports. (I am aware of the supports I have around me. 2D Student demonstrates ability to set and achieve goals. (I can set and achieve goals that will help me to be successful.)
 * Resource:**__Conscious Discipline__, Becky Bailey
 * Standard(s):** 1A Student demonstrates awareness of their emotions. (I am aware of what I am

­ 1. Review previous lesson when __Shubert’s Helpful Day__ was read. Remind students that one of the ways Shubert’s friend was helped was by going to the Safe Place. 2. Use chart paper and markers to have students name different ways they know how to calm down. (Some of these will be incorporated in the Safe Place, others will be good ideas that can be reinforced by elements in the Safe Place.) 3. Show items that you have collected to be included in the Safe Place Case. Go over each item and talk about how each may help a child get control. I.e.: colored icons of STAR, pretzel, balloon, and drain; Calming Cream, Squeezing Ball, Pics of each class friend, Kissing Hand from each friend (previously read __Kissing Hand__) 4. Take pictures of a student using each element. Mount and laminate each picture to create a book that shows explicitly what to do in the Safe Place. *This will give students some thing to fall back on as their de-escalating and a reminder when they’re trying to choose one. 5. Bind book and show children again to remind them of what they can use when choosing to go to the Safe Place.
 * Materials:** Materials for Safe Place (chair/bean bag, posters to remind de-escalation, book of what to do in the Safe Place, Calming Cream, Squeezing Ball, Pics of each class friend, Kissing Hand from each friend…all optional ideas); chart paper; markers; camera to take pics of children demonstrating elements to make part of book; Safe Place Case (box of some sort to store pieces in) See example pictures attached.
 * Time**: 25 minutes
 * Goals:** Creating a place in the class where students know they can de-escalate and feel safe.
 * Describe Lesson Steps:**
 * “We talked about how our Safe Place can be a spot where anyone in our class family can go to cool down and get control of the way they’re feeling.”**
 * Assessment(s):** Observe if students use the Safe Place when escalated and how they choose to use the items in the Safe Place Case.