Hey Miss Crosby, Please Save This Song!

Okay cutie petuties, we need a system for collecting and organizing our music. Here's our first attempt. Comment with your song, but follow these rules if you want me to actually add it!

Song Request Basics:

1. Suggest school appropriate songs (remember, there are often edited versions). If you aren't sure if it is appropriate, google the lyrics and read them to check.

2. Include the title and artist.

3. Use proper spelling and capitalization:
         - Did you capitalize the first letter of all major words in the title?
         - Did you put the song in quotation marks?
         - Did you capitalize the first letter of the artist's first and last name?

4. Choose a category for your song:
         - Chill (relaxing like acoustic or your boy band stuff)
         - I Just Wanna Dance (hip hop or other fun music that makes you want to dance)
         - Focus (no words, background noise that doesn't distract you, but might even help you concentrate)
         - Cheer Up (songs to help you turn that frown upside down)
         - Deep Breaths (not depressing, but mellow and calm music for when you catch yourself mid breakdown or on the verge of losing control of your thoughts, behaviors, and actions)
         - Motivate Me (songs that make you feel like you can conquer the world)

Optional:
If you want, you can include a link to the video or a source we can listen to the songs on.

Example: 

Song: "Polaroid" by Imagine Dragons
Category: Motivate Me

#somanyemotions Page Getting Started!

Can you avoid the emotional roller coaster of middle school completely? 

No, sorry. However, the more you read about how emotions work, the more you will learn and be able to integrate emotionally intelligent behaviors into your mind and reactions. Thus, the more you practice and are aware your emotions, the more  control you will have of yours. :) 

Check out everything I post on here; I pick my favorites that I know will help tweens of all personality and emotional types! 

Must View Images:

This is how information enters your brain. And mine.

1. Information Entering Our Brains- What does this image mean?! Read the parenthesis and you might see why this presents a challenge to everyone initially.  Basically, information hits the brain on the opposite end of the your logical thinking. So information must past through the limbic system (your emotions and feelings!!!) to get to your rational part. That's why the emotions always hit so intensely and it takes us a while to calm down or remove ourselves from the triggering event in order to think logically and rationally. Want to know the really cool part? You can train your brain by increasing your emotional intelligence. Start here, at the source of this graphic.  

Must Read Articles:

1. "Mentally Strong People: The 13 Things They Avoid" by Cheryl Conner

2. "9 Things Emotionally Intelligent People Won't Do" by Dr. Travis Bradberry

Must Check Out Mini Lessons:

1. Think about the words situation, thought, and emotion. How are they different? You can click on the image go to the activity!

Must Remember Strategies: (Control yoself!) 

1. "ABCs of Thinking and Feeling" (aka ABCs of Emotions) - There is a summary below, but if you click on it, you will see all the examples, different definitions, and complete the interactive worksheets to learn how this can help your overall happiness level for the longterm!

...and this is what you look like if you avoid the ABCs of Emotions (Womp, Womp):

We Write Poetry on Mondays

 

Links to Resources Used Above:
Poetry Soup

Edu Place (definition and examples)

Young Writers (definition and examples)

Read, Write, Think