Keeping Calm
Written by Sand Hill School Students
Featuring Gillian in photo illustrations
Keeping Calm
Sometimes stuff happens that makes you feel angry, sad, anxious, or many other ways that are
not comfortable. This book will help you learn to stay calm when you feel this way.
 Stop and count to ten.
1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… 9… 10
 Take 3 deep breaths.
 Do something fun to feel better.
Draw, read a book, play with someone else.
 Tell someone how you feel.
I feel sad because…
I feel angry because…

The girl did something wrong and she is told to go sit at a table.
 The girl feels sad that she did something the teacher didn’t like.
She feels angry, too, because she was told to sit down.
 The girl wants to help herself calm down. She will stop and
count to 10.
Right Way
The girl stops and counts to 10.
Wrong Way
The girl does not stop to calm himself, and
Stays angry.

Take 3 deep breaths
Right Way
The girl takes 3 deep breaths.
Wrong Way
The girl stays sad and angry.
 Do something fun to feel better.
Right Way
The girl draws to feel better.
Wrong Way
The girl stays sad and angry.

Do something fun to feel better.
Right Way
The girl reads a book to feel better
Wrong Way
The girl stays sad and angry.
 Tell someone how you feel.
Right Way
The girl tells her friend how she feels.
Wrong Way
The girl does nothing to calm herself.
She stays sad and angry.