Morning Meeting: wave breathing before a hard topic · Week 6, Monday · 10 min

Open with three wave breaths. Breathe in slowly through the nose as the wave gathers and rolls toward shore, pause as the wave crests, breathe out as it falls back. Then reconnect it to what has changed: 'This is the ocean we have been getting to know, and this week we learn about how people can hurt it. Some of that can feel heavy. Breathing like the ocean helps us stay steady while we think about hard things.'

• Gather at last week's food web with a plastic bag, or a photograph of ocean plastic.
• Literacy follows with Somebody Swallowed Stanley by Sarah Roberts, chosen because it shows real harm without frightening: gentle, rhyming, and it resolves. Chart the chain of cause and effect as you read.

Care & Connect · All 12 weeks

Arrival and provocations, then Morning Meeting.

• Greetings, community building, songs and movement, sharing observations and wonderings.
• Outdoor education and working in the garden's raised beds.
• Reflect & Learn: students are introduced to new concepts and given the opportunity to explore, and the teacher is allowed time to observe and document.