L'ARC Magique

Young children experience a wide range of emotions when presented with challenges in their learning. These emotions, such as stress and anxiety, can lead to physical symptoms of distress yet these can be supported proactively by having children explore appropriate strategies to cope with them. Magic PIE is our first book to help and guide children to use an effective breathing strategy as a tool when faced with overwhelming emotions while in school. This book is intended to address the social-emotional-learning (S.E.L.) skills in Mathematical Processes and has a direct connection with Ontario Math Curriculum. The SEL skills aim at helping students, identify and manage emotions, express and manage feelings, all while they engage positively in mathematics activities. On the other hand, these feelings and emotions can be emerging in many other situations regardless of the subject area. Therefore, this book and the skills within have relevance in many different areas in the day-to-day life of a child. Through this book, young minds may find connections to the situations that affect them, sensations that they feel as a result of anxieties and worries and the coping strategies that can be helpful to them.