Our school does the most amazing field trip to start off the year.  We read a beautiful story, Sea Crow, by Vancouver author Shannon Stewart.  The book tells the story of Jessica who has many worries and how she deals with them.  With more and more children entering our school system with worries and anxieties, our staff felt that we needed to design some lessons that might help students deal with their worries.  After reading the book and designing our own sea crows on paper, we took the whole school to Spanish Banks beach to gather materials to build our own sea crows on the beach.  We then whispered our worries to the sculptures and let them blow away in the wind.  As one teacher told the children, "Sometimes it just helps to speak your worries out loud."