Positive Start Program
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Circle Time - Holidays / Community Circle / Speed Chatting
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Positive Start Program
Refer to activities on page 26 - 21.
HOW TO BE A GOOD FRIEND
Students identify behaviours and characteristics of what it means to be a 'good friend'.
Students describe scenarios these behaviours could be used.
LESSON:
Watch - Have you filled a bucket today.
Discuss Bucket Filling and Bucket Dipping. Discuss how bucket filling and bucket dipping makes you feel. Turn and talk - what kind of behaviours are considered as bucket fillers. How can you be a bucket filler.
Use HOW TO BE A FRIEND posters to reinforce bucket filling behaviours.
Create your own "A GOOD FRIEND" flower for display. List your chosen behaviours on each petal to show how you can be a good friend.
Display posters and flowers in classroom as a reminder.
How we use our Personal and Cultural Strengths
We are learning to name some of their personal and cultural character strengths.
We are learning to provide examples of how a personal or cultural strength can be used in an everyday situation.
We are learning to name some strengths people can use to help them to learn and thrive in everyday life.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES 1-10.
Strength Cards
(Document Attached).
Respect for People, Respect for Country.
We are learning about Indigenous Perspectives and how a Welcome to Country can help us to learn about respect.
We are learning about the difference between a Welcome to Country and an Acknowledgement of Country.
We are learning to create an Acknowledgment of Country to show our respect for Aboriginal peoples and for the Aboriginal lands upon which they live and go to school.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES 11-27.
Activity - Acknowledgement of Country
Using Strengths to Grow Respect
We are learning to identify what respect can look like, feel like and sound like.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES 28-38.
What does the word 'respect' mean?
Caring about the feelings, wishes and rights of others.
Treating everybody in a fair and considerate way, regardless of who they are.
Activity - Circle of Respect Y Chart (Word Document Attached).
Using our Strengths in Different Situations.
We are learning to identify and use skills for teamwork.
We are learning to show respect for others.
We are learning about the strengths we can use to help treat others with respect.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES 39-56.
'Respect Reporters' Activity - Scenarios from RR Doc
Page 47 - 50
Respect for Diversity
We are learning to describe some of the ways people and families can be different
We are learning to share ideas about how we can show respect for differences in a friendly way
We are learning about the importance of using people’s names and pronouns in respectful ways
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES 56 - 67.
We are all different and unique. Differences are something to be proud of!
Respect means being kind, curious and fair about each other's differences.
Families come in many forms.
All families are different and diverse. It is important that we respect ALL differences.
Activity - All about Me, family edition.
(Word Document Attached).
Building team strengths through cooperative games.
Equipment - Balloons
Students identify examples of the ways in which team strengths are used in collaborative play.
Students describe characteristics of cooperative behaviour and identify evidence of these in group activities.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES.
No Rotations - Due to Planning Week
CULTURE OF KINDNESS - SUGGESTED CLASS ACTIVITIES:
Whole School Assembly / Dance Group
Chalk Drawings - Positive Affirmations - Random Acts of Kindness
Create a class poster - 50 ways to be kind / Random acts of Kindness
Create a class Kindness Quilt.
Heartful of compliments.
Well Being Session with Mrs Sketcher.
Strengths we use every day.
Equipment:
Every day strengths cards (from Activity 2, wrapped
up in layers in the style of the children’s party game ‘Pass the Parcel’)
Music or buzzer.
Well Being Book and coloured pencils.
Students describe the personal character strengths that people use in their everyday lives.
Students identify examples of the ways in which strengths can be seen in the actions people take.
Students identify the strengths that they would like to further develop.
LESSON - FOLLOW THROUGH SLIDES
Play Pass the parcel of strengths game. Sit the class in a circle. While the music is playing, the parcel of strengths will be passed around the class. When the music stops (or the buzzer rings), the person holding the parcel opens it and pulls out one of the strengths cards.
The student then reads the card out to the room, and gives an example of an action someone can take which shows this strength. They then invite the class to add more examples, taking a turn in the ‘teacher’ role to choose from those who put their hands up.
Once the game is complete, display the list of strengths. Ask each student to choose two different strengths from the list to use in a memory exercise. In this exercise, they are to remember a time when they used that strength. Then, for each of their selected strengths, ask them to draw a picture with captions, and/or write a short story about the time when they used this strength.
Invite students to choose a third strength, one that they would like to focus on building for themselves. Ask them to write the name of this strength onto their page and to draw a picture of an action they could take which would show this strength in action, and/or to write about what actions they could take to demonstrate this strength. Emphasise that these are everyday strengths that we use in our daily lives.