M rs. Palmer has organized an event at Lee V. Pollard that relieves students stress from finals week with a mixture of fun events, stress balls, and yoga poses.
Unity planned a whole week full of stress free activities to help students manage their stress during the most stressful time of the semester finals week. This week entails a yoga class taught in the Lion’ s Den during lunch to find your inner calm self. Unity hands out stress balls after this class for your most aggravating times. They post motivating posters around Lee V to help you stay on track and make you want to achieve your goals of passing that hard test.
“ There is a lot of different ways to deal with stress that include healthy ways to distress like yoga” – Mrs. Palmer.
When stressful times are ahead of us we tend to shut down and want to deal with it a lone but having a school that comes together and wants to help, makes this time a
lot less stressful. A stress free school makes for a happy enjoyable learning experience. It’ s also enjoyable for Unity students to plan these events and get a chance to help the school.
“ I don ' t like the word " stress." It ' s a Madison Avenue word. It ' s something that can be cured with flavored coffee and bath bubbles. ~ Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing, " Night Five”
This is the second“ Got Stress?” week that we have had at Lee V. Pollard and plan on doing it in the future because of thae positive effect it has on the students. Yoga was a fun way to relieve stress while having fun and laughing. It gave the students the opportunity to get away from their problems. The exercises were instructed by our Unity students. It was a great experience for both the students and Unity class. Ms. Palmer feels“ It gives students new experience and a different outlet to deal with stress“
-Rheanna Vonic
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