Today we looked at our value for this week by identifying situations and times throughout the school day when we need to show our Value of doing the right thing at the right time and place.
This is a collection of our ideas:
To finish our week of focusing on the value of Use Kind Words and Actions, we watched a YouTube clip from an old favourite, Kid President. In this clip, he lists 20 things we should say more often. (The patero part got a few laughs).
We then created a list of some of the things we think we should say more often and students chose their top five to record in their Topics books.
Our next step is to create opportunities to say these things to each other.
These are our ideas:
In our discussions about using kind words and actions, we viewed the story, The Golden Rule.
From viewing this book, we had a discussion about what it means to treat others the way you want to be treated. Our discussion went into the ways we don’t like being treated and how this can help us to remember not to treat others in these ways.
The main part of our discussion was about name-calling. We shared some really upsetting things about the names that we have been called throughout our lives. It was really sad hearing what people have been called and we could all empathise with how name-calling makes us feel.
We are going to make an effort to make sure we are not the ones to be hurting each other.
This is a list of ways we don’t like to be treated:
Our Values focus for this week has been Using Kind Words and Actions. One part that we focused on has been giving people compliments. We came up with some examples and then wrote compliments to people in our hub. We also tried to make someone’s day by making compliment cards for other people in our school and someone at home.
The Zones of Regulation are used to help us regulate our emotions in order to be in the best space for learning. To start 2023, we did a hub brainstorm to see what we already know about the zones.
This is what we came up with:
Our next step is to be able to explain what strategies we can use and use them in our daily lives.
