BALANCE your BRAIN with your BREATHE

I'm still trying NOT TO LOSE MY MIND!  The end-of-the-year challenges your efforts to BALANCE YOUR BRAIN!

Close the right side of your nose!

Breathe through the left side of your nose.

Now close the left and breathe through the right!  This is one round, try to do six rounds of breathing to BALANCE YOUR BRAIN!

More RIGHT BRAIN and LEFT BRAIN Fun!

Juggling uses the LEFT and RIGHT hemispheres of your brain!  Want to try to USE THE WHOLE BRAIN IN YOUR HEAD?  Click on Mrs. Broam's "How To" Video to laugh and learn!

Use your BRAIN!

Use your BRAIN.  It's your THINKING CAP!  Want to challenge your BRAIN?  Try a CROSS BRAIN activity like WINDMILL ARMS or JUGGLING!

Check out Mrs. Broam's YouTube Channel for other "brain and body" fun!

ZOOMing to the FINISH LINE!

What DRIVES you?  Pigeon wanted to DRIVE the bus and Penguin wants to FLY?!  As we approach the end of another school year, consider your motivations and desires, dreams and goals.  BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND!  How can we ensure a STRONG FINISH?

Don't be CRABBY on Friday!

"Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof!"

Can penguins FLY?

You can do ALL KINDS OF FUN with a little help from your FRIENDS!

It's WEDNESDAY!

It's HUMP DAY!  Be a camel today.  Warm up your body, then bend your back.  This stretches and expands the muscles in your chest and "dusts the clouds off your heart!"  YEA for WEDNESDAY!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Tuesday

SHINE ON!

Have a BRIGHT Tuesday!  Let your little LIGHT SHINE today and EVERYDAY!

Butterfly and "Let it Go!"

An average butterfly species has an adult life span of 2 weeks or less. http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/faq/general/12 

Somehow a butterfly accomplishes everything it's supposed to in 2 weeks.  I hope we can .  .  . we have 11 more days of school!  As well make our "final approach," remember Happy Kid Habit #3 -- "Put First Things First!"  Do what we need to do and "let it go!"

Peace Builders

I am a PEACE BUILDER.  Are you a PEACE BUILDER?  Peace Builders look for the GOOD in each day!  When YUCK happens, and it will, you CHOOSE TO LEARN and GROW!  Are YOU a Peace Builder?

Watch D.O.G.S. on Friday

Dragons?

What are those "dragons" in your life?  Those events or situations that rob your joy?  You are in charge of your choices.  Choose to SMILE!  What can you LEARN from the dragons?  You are in charge of your THINKING.  Think HAPPY!

Are you BRAVE?

Bring on the DRAGONS!

Happy Children's Book Week!

There are so MANY great lessons in this good book by Mo Willems!

**Sometimes you need to put on your Old Thinking Cap!
**When friends say "No, really," they mean it.
**When friends ask you to tell the truth, you tell the truth.
**Books beat boredom.
**Discovering a new friend is fun.

HAVE FUN READING!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Friday

Celebrate Life!

YEE HAW!

Mrs. Broam and the Broamlettes

Watch D.O.G.S. on Thursday

Mother's Day is COMING SOON!

Don't forget to make a plan to honor your MOM on SUNDAY, May 11th!

Make Better Choices than GOLDILOCKS!

Make Better Choices than GOLDILOCKS!  She went places she shouldn't go, ate food she shouldn't eat .  .  .  do some better thinking than that chick today!  

Have you read Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems? 

Bowling for Butteflies

2nd Graders are Bowling for Butterflies today!

Flower Power

When the going gets tough, the TOUGH get BLOOMING!  Dig in your roots!  You can do it.  

Every thing, experience or situation has a "life cycle," even a TEST! 
There is a:
Beginning—like when a seed is planted in darkness

Middle—time for growth, rain, sunshine and BLOOMING

End—the flower dies, decomposes, and becomes fertilizer for the next seeds

PASS Testing begins tomorrow!  It won't last forever.  You are READY!  Your experience will help you in future tests!  Do your best. BREATHE!  Do you remember how to breathe like a flower?!

SMILE ON for SMILE TRAIN!

PHES Counselors are HAPPY to celebrate the 8th Annual "Miles for Smiles" -- Smile Train Mini-Marathon!  Cougars raised over $10,000 -- funding 41 cleft palate surgeries!  These funds will be matched and multiplied by an anonymous donor to help 205 children in need.  WOW.  Thank you, Mr. Cronin, for sharing your story, dreaming your dream, and MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.  SMILE ON, Cougars!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Friday

"Mrs. Giraffe"

STAND TALL on a Thursday!