Safety This week we are focusing on Safety. Please view the videos below and have a GREAT Summer!! Cyber Safety Safety Smart Online - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPH0ZMEw60s Pool and Water Safety Wild About Safety with Timon & Pumbaa: Safety Smart In the Water! https://youtu.be/K6Sm-YvFcRw Personal Safety Safe Side Stranger Safety - (K, 1st, 2nd) Join Safe Side Super Chick and learn how to stay safe. https://youtu.be/yFma-EnI5UQ Bicycle Safety https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/bike/bskitboth/3152bskit/pages/section1/Youcanalso.html Bicycle Safer Journey https://youtu.be/dkoVxBnnGko
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Coping Skills for Kids Coping skills are the behaviors and thoughts you use to regulate your emotions or deal with changes in your life. These strategies are best employed when you realize you are becoming too emotional or stressed before an outburst happens. When an adult need to calm down, they might go to the boxing gym, maybe have some wine, watch a funny TV show, call a close friend to vent, etc. Kids often don’t have these options, as their schedules and choices are usually dictated by teachers or parents. They often don’t have the choice to go run around when they are supposed to be in math class or have a frame of reference for self-talk, they could use to center themselves. But there are some accessible strategies that students can use to calm down no matter where they are. They just need to know what they are and when to use them. In these printable coping skills worksheets, students will sort coping strategies into “smart” and “not smart” columns. Good coping strategies include counting to 10, positive self-talk, and calming your body. Bad coping strategies would include stomping your feet, yelling at someone, or throwing something. Download the printable here https://media.centervention.com/pdf/GRIN-Smart-Not-Smart-Calm-Down-Strategies.pdf Bonus: For your kinesthetic learners, turn this into an active lesson! Label two buckets or waste bins SMART and NOT SMART and write the coping skills for kids on pieces of paper. After students read the coping strategy, they should ball up the paper and shoot it into the corresponding bucket. https://www.centervention.com/coping-skills-worksheets/ Go Noodle Good Energy Flow During this time of virtual learning, it is important to continue to have good energy flowing throughout your mind and body. Get your good energy flowing as you dance and since with the GoNoodle gang in a GoNoodle hang! Featured Printable Help spread positivity and think about how you can make other people happy with this worksheet. At-Home Activity A game of “The Floor is Lava” is a great way to burn off some energy! Parents have kids spread things like stuffed animals or pillows across the floor, and challenge them to jump from one to the next without touching the floor and falling into the “lava!” If kids do touch the floor, challenge them to keep going to see how far they can get. Coping with an Uncertain Future
EQ: How do we adapt and how have we already learned to adapt as individuals? Activity #1: Trust This activity focuses on individual coping skills. Each person will need one sheet of paper. At a time when it seems like everything is changing, we tend to lose track of the things that we can still trust. The things that bring some level of comfort because we know we can depend on these things. Draw a line down the center of your paper.
Examples: School is online My teacher still cares about me I can’t be with my Grandma She still lets me know she loves me I can’t be with my friends We can still connect online Concluding Conversation: The parts that remain true (right column) don’t make up for the losses and changes (column 2), but it may be helpful to hold on to those we realize are helpful. Remember, this will not last forever. It will change our lives, but it won’t last forever. Coping with Worry and Fear Grades K-5 There are a lot of heavy things going on in our world today, and even though we try our hardest kids are going to worry. But, pretending that worries and fears don’t exist is the opposite of what we should be doing. In fact, encouraging kids to talk about what’s frightening them and validating them, helps tremendously. In this lesson, students will understand how fear works, that it’s okay to be afraid, and how to not let fears control how they live or act. Students will identify things in their world that causes them to worry or fear and work through them.
2. Can you explain what fear is? Fear can sneak up on you and make you feel all weird, your heart might race and you might get that frog in the back of your throat or your stomach might feel funny or nervous. Sometimes fear can completely overcome us and make us feel like we can’t do anything. 3. Look at the Worry Scale Worksheet - https://media.centervention.com/pdf/Worry-Scale-Worksheet.pdf Please write down a few things that scare you or that you worry about. After you’ve written down a few things, look at the scale. For each thing you listed, think about where it belongs on the scale. For example: If I wrote down that bugs scare me, I’d look at the scale, and it would fall on “little worried/scared” because they scare me but not so much where I’m really scared.” 4. Now that you've written down worries or the things that scare you and thought about where they fall on the scale, talk about them with a friend, sibling, or trusted adult. Parents explain that one child may be very fearful about something that another child isn’t fearful of at all. And explain how helpful it can be to talk about our fears. Parents, teachers and friends are here to talk about it with you. By talking about what we’re fearful of, making a plan to help with that fear or move past it, will make us feel better. It will also help us either overcome the fear, or it will move down that worry scale for us. Books: Search for some read alouds of these books on Youtube.
Social-Emotional Learning Resources
Minecraft – Social-Emotional Learning Worlds available - http://msft.it/6019TkgQP The game students love now has social-emotional learning lessons and worlds available. Students can access these worlds and experience engaging lessons on different aspects of social emotional learning. Featured Available Worlds:
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