The Mood Meter and Back To School

Hi, I hope that everyone is making the most out of what is left of the summer! As the 2020-2021 academic year is right around the corner many students will participate in hybrid learning. Meaning a mix of both remote and the traditional place-based classroom learning. This topic has certainly caused controversy all over the world as virtual learning has been a struggle for both students and parents! However, Schools all over the world are working diligently to make resources accessible for students and encourage students to continue to achieve their goals and participate as if it were a traditional school year.

A wonderful tool to help with this for people of all ages is the mood meter! The mood meter is a chart that helps identify emotions throughout the day. It is separated into 4 quadrants color-coded red, yellow, green, and blue, which all represent a different emotion! The red quadrant is used to describe someone who is feeling anxious, enraged, frightened, or panicked. Sharing some similarity the blue quadrant represents feelings of disgust, disappointment, and hopelessness. Moving into the more uplifting quadrants the green quadrant can be used to describe someone feeling content, at ease, relaxed or mellow. Lastly the yellow quadrant is for someone who is feeling festive, upbeat, surprised, pleasant and happy! The mood meter is an incredible resource to both discover your emotions but always identify patterns. 

The Aid by Ariella booklets include the mood meter! We ask our patients to write or draw about how they are feeling! Marc Brackett, the creator of the Mood Meter has done wonderful work to get the meter involved in schools all over the world. As a student, the mood meter has been a great resource and I hope that both parents and children will be able to benefit from it!