Dance along with a few of these videos or dance to three of your favorite songs.

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• • Animal Movement Workout

    • Animal Movement Workout from Strong Mom

    • Try this fun workout with your kids

    • How can you change this workout?

Learn the animal movements from this video. Take some breaks throughout the day to try these movements.

Try these movements each morning to get yourself moving.

1. Print out this workout poster and hang it up somewhere that’s easy for your kids to see.

2. Do each activity for 45 seconds, rest for 15 seconds, and move on to the next activity. Remember that the goal is to get your heartrate up.

3. Pro tip: turn on some music!

4. Set a time to do the exercises each day. This could be after brushing teeth or getting dressed, after breakfast, or any time that works for you.

5. At the end of the workout, clap, high-five, or tell each other good job, then have a great rest of your day!

We found this workout at the Wyoming: Quality Counts website.

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  • These are ideas to get you and your family moving.

  • How many can you check off before the end of the month?

Materials that can be used:

• One by Kathryn Otoshi ISBN-10: 0972394648

  • A read aloud of One can be found here.

• Arthur - The Bully video clip on YouTube

Show the video clip: Arthur - The Bully

This is a two minute clip – stop the clip at 1 minute and 30 seconds and ask your child to describe what kind of behaviors they saw in the video. Ask your child how did the various characters were treated in this clip? How did these students respond to this bullying?

The characters finally realized that bullying was not going to be allowed in their school and they will have to change their behaviors to get attention and respect from other students. We are going to learn how to make our school a place where bullying is not allowed and where bullies are not welcome.

Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, you will be able to recognize bullying behaviors and demonstrate what you should do it if you see someone bullying another person. You will also be able to explain the differences between bullying and teasing.

Parent Input:

Teasing is to laugh at or poke fun at someone. Most people who tease are trying to joke with someone; they don’t intend to hurt someone. When someone is hurt by teasing and the person doing the teasing does not stop, this becomes bullying. Bullying behaviors are trying to hurt someone on purpose more than once. Bullying can look and sound differently. Sometimes bullies try to scare people by threatening to hurt someone or someone’s belongings and making people feel afraid. Bullies can use their actions to hurt people by kicking, hitting, or throwing objects at someone. Bullies may also try to make someone feel bad or lonely by not including them when they play or telling other friends to ignore someone or not share with them. Saying mean things, sharing something that is not true about someone, and calling people names are ways that bullies try to use their words to hurt someone.

It is important to stop bullying as soon as you see it. Even though you may not be the person being bullied, you need to do something about it. If you see someone being bullied it is very important to take action to stop bullying.

I am going to read a story about four friends and how these friends stopped a bully from hurting people.

Distribute paper, crayons and pencils to students prior to sharing the book “One” by Kathryn Otoshi.

I want you to listen very carefully to the words used to describe each friend.

Read or show the video of One. The video is here.

Pause after reading the description of each character in the story ask students to draw a picture the character.

Characters in the story are Red, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Green, Purple and One.

Continue reading the story and pause for the following questions:

Is Red a bully? What did he do that leads you to believe he was a bully? How did Red’s behavior make others feel? What did the other colors do when Red was bullying Blue? How did that make Blue feel - why?

Explain to your child that not doing anything will rarely stop a bully. There are several options for responding to bullies and different strategies might work better in one situation than another.

Share these options for responding to bullying:

1. Ignore and walk away from the situation – sometimes simply walking away will show the bully that he or she is not funny or that this behavior is not okay.

2. Say something – tell the bully that what they are doing is not okay and hurtful to others. Speaking up may also encourage others to speak up as well and let the bully know this behavior is not welcome here.

3. Tell an adult – teachers, school staff members, and parents can take actions to help the bully recognize it is wrong to hurt others and learn from their mistakes.

4. Be kind to others – if someone is being bullied, be a friend to this person and show him or her kindness and respect.

Questions:

How did One respond when Red was bullying blue? How did One standing up to Red change the way Red treated others? How did the colors start turning into numbers? What happened when the numbers stood together? What does it mean when the book says “everyone counts?”

Closure:

Today we learned about bullying behaviors and how to say or do something to stop bullying. It is very important to stand up for others because everyone counts.