Programming Spotlight: Mindfulness Coloring

Students and staff participate in mindfulness coloring workshop led by school psychologist Rebecca Fernandez.
Photo: Jessica Fenster-Sparber

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Over the last two days at Belmont all three non-secure detention groups participated in a mindfulness coloring program, co-led by Rebecca Fernandez, School Psychologist, and Jennifer Allen, School Social Worker.  Students learned about mindfulness and mindful coloring in a brief mini-lesson and then practiced it as a group with teachers and staff in the library while soothing music played in the background.  Thank you to First Book for providing us with copies of Johanna Basford’s beautiful Magical Jungle which all participating students are receiving today as a gift.—Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi

Pablo is in debt,  has left college, and is working nights at a bodega when mega popstar Leanna Smart comes in to buy some snacks.  She’s unrecognizable to him as he swoons over her at the checkout counter.  Eventually it becomes clear that their attraction is mutual and Leanna begins taking Pablo to places he’s never been. Soon Pablo is head over heels in love,  but in no shape to deal with the bills that are piling up, or the calls he is getting from the collection agency.

Will Leanna solve Pablo’s financial woes?   This fast-paced YA novel offers the confident reader both suspense and romance, and despite it’s 400 pages, it will be hard to put down. --Jessica Fenster-Sparber

Choi, Mary H. K. Permanent Record. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019. Print.