Te Puna School is on an exciting journey exploring the "Zones of Regulation". This is a curriculum designed to foster self-regulation and emotional control. The tool "Zones of Regulation" involves four phases of alertness and emotion - Blue, Green, Yellow and Red. This learning gives us an awareness of our emotions and the tools to regulate our way back to being calm and learning-ready.

Room 3 has been working really hard to understand, identify and regulate our emotions. We check in regularly with each other to see what zone we are in, and what we might need to do to bring us back to the optimal green learning zone. 

As a class, we've even been exploring the way others might feel about our behaviour too. This has really helped us be more aware of each other's feelings.