MY WELLBEING JOURNEY – YEAR
ENJOYING MY BEST SELF to share my positive feelings and attitudes
With your family, friends, classmates and teacher, enjoy doing the lessons and activities on your journey to grow everyone’s wellbeing. When you all work together special things can be achieved.
Strengths Weeks
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 a Leader, Perseverance (Trying Hard), Zest and Love of Learning. Download these activity sheets and award certificates from the Wellbeing Program/Individual Resources/Strengths Weeks or Wellbeing Awards sections of www.learningcurve.com.au
1 “Your mind is the greatest power you have. Use it well.” Aneta Cruz Acknowledgement: Sonja Lyubirmorsky & Tal Ben Shahar
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Draw your family, friends and yourself enjoying your favourite place in the outdoors. What are their names? MY NAME MY CLASS ........................................................................................................................................ MY TEACHER ...................................................................................................................................
What Does Being Resilient Mean?
Lesson: WHY: for you to learn about the skills that you need to be resilient at school and at home.
you hear your family
respond
practise
do
could
about
is a time I was proud of how I bounced back?
being resilient, they mean that you are able
seven skills
become resilient.
Skill 1. Feeling positive about the future – when have I done this well?
2. Controlling my own feelings – when have I done this well?
3. No acting or speaking without thinking
when have I done this well?
you
or draw
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When
and teachers talking
you
to
well to problems or setbacks by bouncing back from them. There are
that
have to
using in how you think and what you say and do to
Describe
what you
or
do for each of these skills.
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What Does Being Resilient Mean?
start
Changing how I think for
Caring about others’ needs and feelings
when have I done this well?
when have I done this well?
6. Believing in myself as a person who matters – when have I done this well?
Skill 7. Wanting to connect and be with other people – when have I done this well?
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to grow these skills in yourself, you will enjoy tackling harder challenges and see mistakes and fixing them as important things to accept and do to enjoy your best self. Acknowledgement: Reivich & Shatte “Failure is the only opportunity to begin again.” Henry Ford
Skill 4.
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Getting Ready For School
WHY: by knowing how to organise your school bag every night, you will sleep well because you know that you are ready for school when you wake up.
HOW: pack your school books, fill your water bottle, make your lunch and have your uniform laid out for the morning. Being responsible for yourself by doing these things, will make you feel proud.
what else do you have to do to get ready for school?
feelings do you have when you know that you are organised for school?
can organise yourself to feel proud of yourself.”
Fab First Five: Where is your favourite place to play with friends at school?
Smarter Ways to Think
Pausing & Noticing – when you are doing something, stop, pause, take notice and ask yourself, “am I rushing to do this too quickly and missing something?” When were you proud of how you paused and noticed what you were doing?
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When you try hard to do something challenging, you are filled with happy feelings. When were you proud of how you tried hard?
How Did You Feel This Week?
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Acknowledgement: ACARA 3-4 HPE
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The Big Three
Good Things Coming Up
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Colour in how well you went this week. DID EXERCISE GOT SLEEP DRANK WATER READERS ARE LEADERS WEEK BEGINNING: / / Parent/Carer Signature: MONDAY Book Title No.pages Draw how your reading made you feel on each day below. Minutes TUESDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes WEDNESDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes THURSDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes FRIDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes SAT/SUN Book Title No.pages Minutes
What are you really looking forward to this week? ......................................................................... ......................................................................... .........................................................................
Growing Your Brain
learning that your brain grows when you practise
will be keener
practise doing something
you want to get better at, over and over to create patterns for your brain. These patterns
your brain messages to travel more quickly
keep practising.
do the activity
faster
FIND THESE WORDS activity better brain doing create enable faster grow hard learn message over patterns practise try
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something, you
to practise. HOW:
that
enable
and
much
when you
Acknowledgement: Pascual-Leone & Dweck DO: what is something that you would like to get better at by practising? ............................................................................................................................................................... When is a time that you practised something and got better at it? “Practising every day grows your brain.” MW
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Maze – find the right path!
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well you went this week. DID EXERCISE GOT SLEEP DRANK WATER READERS ARE LEADERS WEEK BEGINNING: / / Parent/Carer Signature: MONDAY
No.pages Draw
your reading
you feel on each day below. Minutes TUESDAY
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Tuned In
WHY: by learning how to totally tune in to what you are doing, you will feel really good about yourself.
HOW: focus on an activity that you enjoy, which stretches your skills, concentrate hard using your strengths to block out other things, and you will feel really connected to the activity and yourself. You may lose your sense of time.
what is an activity that you love doing which stretches your skills?
What is enjoyable about being totally tuned
into what you want to learn.”
Activity -
the picture by colouring
squares
the grid to match
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The Big Three
Good Things Coming Up
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Colour in how well you went this week. DID EXERCISE GOT SLEEP DRANK WATER READERS ARE LEADERS WEEK BEGINNING: / / Parent/Carer Signature: MONDAY Book Title No.pages Draw how your reading made you feel on each day below. Minutes TUESDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes WEDNESDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes THURSDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes FRIDAY Book Title No.pages Minutes SAT/SUN Book Title No.pages Minutes
What are you really looking forward to this week? ......................................................................... ......................................................................... .........................................................................
Warm Feelings
WHY: by thinking about special and happy times that you have had in the past, you will feel those warm feelings again.
HOW: when having a great time with family and friends, draw pictures, take photos of the good things happening, and write a story about it. Then to make those feelings return, go back to look at these.
Acknowledgement: Bryant & Veroff
DO: what is a happy time that you had which fills you with warm feelings when you think about it
What is something that you are looking forward to that you can take photos of and write about?
about good things to be happy.”
Fab First Five: When is a time that you listened to and acted on the advice you received?
The Big Three
Colour in how well you went this week.
Smarter Ways to Think
Explaining Clearly – When you are about to explain something to others, think, are the words that I am using describing it well? When were you proud of how you explained something clearly?
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You Feel
Kellick
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wellbeing@school
Your health depends on the Big Three: daily exercise, drinking water and
Which of these
Maze – find your way through the maze!
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Draw
sleep.
do you do well? Acknowledgement: ACARA 3-4 HPE .........................................................................
Respectful Relationships Builders
well with other people.
My Coping Ways:
One thing that I can do to help me to overcome hard challenges is...
write,
My Worries Control:
One thing that I can do to calm myself when I am upset is...
you
enjoy healthy and
together to help you to get
do something else to share your
My Problem Solving:
One problem that I could need to solve to enjoy respectful relationships is...
My Help Seeking:
One person who I can ask when I need help in having respectful relationships is...
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to
respectful relationships with other people. The following six elements work
on
You can
draw or stick in pictures or
thoughts.
Body Language and Messages
This Lesson: WHY: for you to understand that you send and receive most messages to and from other people, not through what you say, but through the way your face looks, the tone of your voice and how you move your body – called body language. Have fun in class, taking turns showing different types of body language, with the rest of the class trying to guess what your message is. You can describe, stick in pictures or draw how your face would look for each of them.
I am welcoming a new student into my group of friends.
I am at a friend’s birthday party and feel excited.
“Be
I am interested in listening to one of my older relatives tell me a story.
fountain,
I have been asked at home over and over to clean up my room.
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a
not
a
drain.” Rex Hudler Acknowledgement: ACARA 3-4 HPE
My Feelings and Emotions
This Lesson: WHY: for you
understand
it is normal for you to feel many different feelings and emotions, ranging from excited, to happy, to disappointed,
sad. The following are ones that you feel every day.
at least five that you feel often.
yourself enjoying
favourite
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice.
is a choice.
is a choice.
choice you make makes
is a choice. Giving is a choice.
wisely.”
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Optimism
Kindness
Respect
Whatever
you. Choose
Roy T Bennett
to
that
to
Circle
Acknowledgement: 3-4 RRRR, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne Draw
your
feeling.
Enjoying Being You
This
enjoying being
enjoying being yourself
119 “A person without imagination has no wings.” Muhammad Ali Acknowledgement: 3-4 RRRR, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Lesson: WHY: for you to learn more words which can describe you
you. Circle at least five that you think could describe you enjoying being you.
Draw yourself
for one of your five choices.
