Download these activity sheets and award certificates from the Wellbeing Program/Individual Resources/Strengths Weeks or Wellbeing Awards sections of www.learningcurve.com.au
There are four strengths weeks throughout the year and they are placed on the bottom of the right hand page for that week. You and your classmates can draw or describe how you could use one of the strengths below to build your wellbeing and healthy friendships. The order of these weeks are: Being Curious, Being Grateful, Being in a Team and Being Kind.
Sonja Lyubirmorsky & Tal Ben Shahar
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1 “TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More.”Acknowledgement:MW
Strengths Weeks
To explore what you can do to grow into a happy and caring young person, have fun with your friends, classmates, parents and teachers doing the lessons and activities in this Wellbeing Journey. Class brainstorms are good ways to have fun sharing your thoughts to learn together.
Draw a picture of classmates who you know, and add more as you get to know them.
MY WELLBEING JOURNEY – YEAR 3 EXPLORING MY BEST SELF
Acknowledgement: 3-4 RRRR, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
“It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.” Dr Seuss
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This Lesson: WHY: for you to think about four adults who you trust, and who you can ask for help when you feel unsafe or worried about something. They are your Circle of Safety. You can write about, draw or stick in pictures of the adults in your circle.
My Circle of Safety PICTURE OF ME PERSON ONE PERSON TWOPERSON FOUR PERSON THREE NAME NAME NAMENAME NAME
Caring for others and myself
Doing the right thing
Enjoying listening to learn
Working well with others
Acceptingmistakesothers’
Curiosity
Kindness
Strengths For Values
Being interested in learning more
Humour
“Just as we don’t realise we are breathing, we often don’t realise we are using our character strengths.” Martin Seligman
Always telling the truth
Prudence
Fairness
Bravery
Taking sensible and safe actions
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Creativity
Being in charge of your feelings
Gratitude
Acknowledgement: Martin Seligman, Chris Peterson & VIA Institute
Doing what you know is right
Acceptingdifferencesothers’
Being thankful for good things Hope
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Forgiveness
Enjoying fun and laughing
Having new ideas and thoughts
To do kind things for others
Teamwork
Self-control
Looking at your life positively
Persistence
Leadership
This Lesson: WHY: for you to learning that your strengths are your own personal best ways to do everyday things. Everyone has their own mix of them, which makes all of us special in our ways. Draw a circle around the six strengths which you think are your strongest ones.
Honesty
Keeping trying and not giving up
Tolerance
Bringing out the best in others
Feeling Happy
The Big Three
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Healthy Friendships
You send messages to other people by the way your face looks and how you move your body, called body language. Draw what your face would look like for one these:
RRRR, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Acknowledgement: Fredrickson & Branigan
HOW: these good things can be playing with your friends, sharing fun times and exercising together. When you have problems, your Circle of Safety will always listen and help you fix them.
3. Being Acknowledgement:brave.3-4
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DO: who did you have fun playing with
Colour in how well you went this week.
1. Being kind to someone.
2. Saying “thank you”.
How Did You Feel This Week?
“Enjoy playing with family and friends because it’s special” MW
WHY: by sharing the good things that you are grateful for every night with your family, you will have warm feelings inside, which will make you feel happy.
Fab First Five: What is a game that you love playing?
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WHY: by understanding that interested listening is one of the best ways to build other people’s and your wellbeing, you will be able to show that you value what they are saying.
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HOW: when listening to someone, look at their eyes, smile and be friendly, which will make them feel special and that you think that they matter to you.
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DO: when is a time that you were proud of how you showed interested listening with someone? Listening
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Spiders have blue blood, eat insects, and lay eggs. Draw a spider.
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Mindfulness Time
“Mistakes are stepping stones to learning well.”
Tongue Tinglings – place a sultana or a different piece of fruit in your mouth for one minute without chewing it. What feelings did you have in your mouth? Now you can eat it.
When is a time that you learned something special from making a
DO: what is something hard that you can do to stretch your mind?
Acknowledgement: Kabat-Zinn & Baer
Mistakes Grow You
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WHY: by stretching yourself to try harder things, you will make mistakes which you can then fix.
HOW: by learning new things you will grow your abilities to be able to do more. You can read a more difficult book, do a jigsaw puzzle or play Maths games to stretch yourself. Make it fun Acknowledgement:growing.Dweck & Ericsson.
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Fab First Five: What is a place that you would love to visit?
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DO: when is a time that you have spoken firmly and clearly to your what you mean to keep you and your friends safe.”
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WHY: by learning how to speak firmly to your friends when you don’t want to do something unsafe or naughty, you will protect your wellbeing.
Acknowledgement: Gozen
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Acknowledgement: Seligman & Griffin
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How many days did you try Arm Breathing this week?
Relaxing Breathing
How Did You Feel This Week?
Firm Clear Speaking
HOW: to do this clearly, say how you feel and what you want to happen. Use your strengths to speak this way to help your friends to think again about what they are wanting to do.
Fab First Five: What fruit do you love eating?
No two snowflakes are alike. Draw a snowflake.
Did You Know That?
Arm Breathing: standing with your arms folded, breathe in for a count of 6 opening your arms fully out, hold for 6, then breathe out for 6 bring your arms in. Repeat 5 times. How did you feel while doing Arm Breathing?
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HOW: show that you are friendly by smiling and asking others how they feel. They will respond kindly and make you feel part of the group. Feeling a sense of belonging will help you to grow up in a healthy way.
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Acknowledgement: Biswas-Diener & Dutton
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WHY: by feeling that you belong with your family, friends and school, you will be filled with warm feelings.
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Six Thinking Hats Your thoughts for each of the hats
Acknowledgement: De Bono & Brenda Dyck
Yellow Hat –looks at what’s good about the problem
Blue Hat –looks at the big picture about the problem
Black Hat –looks at what’s wrong about the problem
“Think left and think right, think up and think down, and think low and think high.”
Red Hat –looks at the feelings about the problem
Six Thinking Hats
Green Hat –looks at new ideas about the problem
This Lesson: WHY: for you to learn about the Six Thinking Hats that you can use to solve nearly any problem that you have by looking at it from different angles. The hats organise you to think very logically. For the following problem that can happen in class, use the hats to sensibly think about it. Problem: students talking while someone is asking a question or your teacher is teaching your class.
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Multiplication Times Tables
1 x 7 = 7 2 x 7 = 14 3 x 7 = 21 4 x 7 = 28 5 x 7 = 35 6 x 7 = 42 7 x 7 = 49 8 x 7 = 56 9 x 7 = 63 10 x 7 = 70 11 x 7 = 77 12 x 7 = 84
FOURS
1 x 8 = 8 x 8 = 16 x 8 = 24 x 8 = 32 x 8 = 40 x 8 = 48 x 8 = 56 x 8 = 64 x 8 = 72 x 8 = 80 x 8 = 88 x 8 = 96
1 x 4 = 4 2 x 4 = 8 3 x 4 = 12 x 4 = x 4 = 20 x 4 = x 4 = 28 x 4 = 32 x 4 = 36 x 4 = 40 x 4 = x 4 =
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1 x 2 = 2 2 x 2 = 4 3 x 2 = 6 4 x 2 = 8 5 x 2 = 10 6 x 2 = 12 7 x 2 = 14 8 x 2 = 16 9 x 2 = 18 10 x 2 = 20 11 x 2 = 22 12 x 2 = 24
1 x 3 = 3 2 x 3 = 6 3 x 3 = 9 4 x 3 = 12 5 x 3 = 15 6 x 3 = 18 7 x 3 = 21 8 x 3 = 24 9 x 3 = 27 10 x 3 = 30 11 x 3 = 33 12 x 3 = 36
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1 x 10 = 10 2 x 10 = 20 3 x 10 = 30 4 x 10 = 40 5 x 10 = 50 6 x 10 = 60 7 x 10 = 70 8 x 10 = 80 9 x 10 = 90 10 x 10 = 100 11 x 10 = 110 12 x 10 = 120
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4 x 12 = 48 5 x 12 = 60 6 x 12 = 72 7 x 12 = 84 8 x 12 = 96 9 x 12 = 108 10 x 12 = 120 11 x 12 = 132 12 x 12 = 144
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1 x 5 = 5 2 x 5 = 10 3 x 5 = 15 4 x 5 = 20 5 x 5 = 25 6 x 5 = 30 7 x 5 = 35 8 x 5 = 40 9 x 5 = 45 10 x 5 = 50 11 x 5 = 55 12 x 5 = 60 NINES 1 x 9 = 9 2 x 9 = 18 3 x 9 = 27 4 x 9 = 36 5 x 9 = 45 6 x 9 = 54 7 x 9 = 63 8 x 9 = 72 9 x 9 = 81 10 x 9 = 90 11 x 9 = 99 12 x 9 = 108 ONES 1 x 1 = 1 2 x 1 = 2 3 x 1 = 3 4 x 1 = 4 5 x 1 = 5 6 x 1 = 6 7 x 1 = 7 8 x 1 = 8 9 x 1 = 9 10 x 1 = 10 11 x 1 = 11 12 x 1 = 12
1 x 6 = 6 2 x 6 = 12 3 x 6 = 18 4 x 6 = 24 5 x 6 = 30 6 x 6 = 36 7 x 6 = 42 8 x 6 = 48 9 x 6 = 54 10 x 6 = 60 11 x 6 = 66 12 x 6 = 72
1 x 11 = 11 2 x 11 = 22 3 x 11 = 33 4 x 11 = 44 5 x 11 = 55 6 x 11 = 66 7 x 11 = 77 8 x 11 = 88 9 x 11 = 99 10 x 11 = 110 11 x 11 = 121 12 x 11 = 132
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This Lesson: WHY: for you to practise your multiplication tables regularly so that they become habits that you can repeat naturally.
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1 x 12 = 12 x 12 = x 12 = 36
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