Year 3 Health and wellbeing: mindfulness and meditative balances worksheet

“Moving from worried to calm” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 3 PE unit “Health and wellbeing: mindfulness and meditative balances”, for children aged 7 to 8, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 25 to 27 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Moving from worried to calm

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 3 · PE · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can show an emotion through slow, controlled movements.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which tip helps you stay still on one foot?
look at one spot aheadlook down at your feethold your breath
2.
Number these steps for a safe session, from start to finish, 1 to 4.
1. Stretch your arms slowly
2. Stand in a clear space
3. Cool down with a slow walk
4. March on the spot
3.
Join each skill to the tip that goes with it.
StretchBalanceBreathe
Breathe out slowlyKeep still on one footReach long and wide

B Watch me, then you4 min

Before you start, clear a small space away from windows, with a grown-up watching. Ola wants to show worried, then calm. She starts curled small.

Watch me

Ola starts curled small and still.

She breathes slowly and moves slowly.

She opens out wide to show calm.

Now you

1.
Mia wants to show calm at the end. Which move comes last?
slow arms reaching widequick hop on the spotfast spin

C Your turn8 min

Clear your space. Keep your eyes on one spot. Move slowly and let your grown-up watch. Try each move before you answer.

1.
Show worried. Which move fits best?
curled and slowbig and faststretched and fast
2.
Your story starts curled small to show worried. Which shape shows calm at the end, still moving slowly?
curled smallstretched wide
3.
Number these moves so the story goes from worried to calm.
1. Stretch wide
2. Curl small
3. Breathe slowly
4.
Move from curled small to stretched wide three times, as slowly as you can. Count the seconds for each try and colour a bar to show it.

Say it out loud: Which move was the hardest to do slowly, and what helped you?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “If I rush my breathing, I will feel calmer much quicker.”

1.
Is Kit right? Say why in one sentence.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Make up a three-move sequence to show hopeful. Tell your grown-up each move and why it shows hopeful.

How did it feel?

Tell your grown-up which move felt the calmest, and which one felt the hardest to do slowly.

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Moving from worried to calm · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. look at one spot ahead If your child picks looking down or holding the breath, ask them to try each one. Eyes on one still spot ahead keep the body steadiest.

2. 1 Stand in a clear space · 2 March on the spot · 3 Stretch your arms slowly · 4 Cool down with a slow walk If your child starts with stretching, ask where they are standing. A clear space comes first, so the body is ready to move safely.

3. Stretch → Reach long and wide; Balance → Keep still on one foot; Breathe → Breathe out slowly If your child joins breathing with reaching, ask which one the chest does. Breathing is about letting air out slowly.

B

1. slow arms reaching wide If your child picks the quick hop, ask which move looks calm. Fast moves do not look calm, so slow arms are the better choice.

C

1. curled and slow If your child chooses the big fast move, ask whether worry feels big and fast. Slow and small shows worry better.

2. stretched wide If your child picks curled small, ask whether calm feels small or open. Ask them to open their arms slowly and breathe out.

3. 1 Curl small · 2 Breathe slowly · 3 Stretch wide If your child puts the stretch first, ask how the story starts. It starts worried, so the curled shape comes first.

4. Look for: Three coloured bars, one for each try, each showing the seconds the slow move took. If your child colours only one bar, ask them to do the move again. Each try needs its own bar.

D

1. Look for: Says no and gives a reason, such as rushing stops it from calming you or it must be slow. your child thinks speed helps calm. Ask your child to try one slow breath, then one quick breath, and say which made the shoulders drop.

E

1. Look for: Three moves that show hopeful, with a reason given for each move.

Words to use

Say“Show me the slowest move you made. What did your shoulders do?”

Instead of“Hurry up and just get it done.”

After the sheet

Clear a space on the floor and watch while your child makes a worried to calm sequence of three slow moves. Then swap roles and guess each other's feeling.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Pause, breathe and focus(with a plan)
Still and steady balances(with a plan)
Still Together in Pairs(with a plan)
Balancing with a beanbag(with a plan)
Imaginary Stick Partners(with a plan)

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