Ready, Set, Regulate! Door Mat
Begin each day with a fun routine that helps students feel ready to learn!
Accomplish 3 Key Classroom Goals:
1. Time-Saving Tool
Rather than spending the first 10 minutes of class settling students, the mat creates an efficient, student-led transition that maximizes instructional time.
2. Smooth Transitions
Arriving students have a structured way to release whatever happened before entering class and reset to prepare for learning.
3. Develop Self Regulation Skills
Allows students to select the sensory input they need, connecting them with their emotions.
Students answer the question: What is your vibe today?
They choose from six, fun sensory activities
Three fun calming activities
1. Give yourself a hug
Crossing your arms and squeezing your shoulders gives calming, deep pressure to muscles and joints. Balancing on one leg adds a layer of motor planning for added focus.
1. Shake your tail feather
This fun movement requires focus and body awareness while improving balance, flexibility, and strength.
Three fun calming activities
2. Side stretches
This activity calms the body and mind. Slow stretching on both sides increases flexibility and promotes relaxation
Three inviting activating activities
2. Frog Jump
A full-body coordination exercise that strengthens large muscles and stimulates the brain through motor planning
3. Calming tree yoga pose
This yoga pose, paired with three deep cleansing breaths, helps calm both the body and mind, creating a peaceful start to the day.
3. Fly like a bird
This uplifting activity stretches and strengthens the shoulders, arms, chest, and neck, while enhancing flexibility, and range of motion.
Why every classroom needs the Ready, Set, Regulate Sensory Mat!
Classroom Management – By establishing a consistent entry routine, teachers create predictability that reduces behavior issues while simultaneously collecting valuable data about students’ emotional states.
Inclusion for Diverse Needs – The variety of sensory activities accommodates different sensory processing preferences and needs, making it particularly valuable for inclusive classrooms.
Positive Classroom Culture – Starting with this engaging activity sets a welcoming tone that communicates to students their emotional well-being matters in your classroom.
Durable Manufacturing – Graphics are baked into the vinyl (not painted on top) and the mat has a non-slip rubber backing. Easy to clean.