As a school social worker in the East Greenwich Public Schools, I developed a program for early elementary school children that I called Relax and Focus. I did a series of lessons in each first grade classroom, reading stories on social-emotional themes, and introducing words to help the children describe their feeling states. I also led the children in an exercise on focused attention and breathing as a means of relaxing the body and the mind. The children looked forward to this lesson every week, and I truly enjoyed this work as well.
