Dear Parents and Teachers, Students will need your support by explaining and offering direction for the activities. As their reading skills develop, encourage them to try to make sense of what they are being asked to do. This planner focuses on developing a self-awareness of themselves and learning to self-regulate how they act and feel.
Friendships Weeks
Choose a week around the middle of every term to have a special focus on encouraging students to use one of the four strengths –gratitude, teamwork, kindness and leadership, to build friendships with classmates and other students. There are pages for students to draw and describe their experiences at the back of this planner.
» Being Grateful week – page 110
» Being in a Team Week – page 111
» Being Kind Week – page 112
» Being a Leader Week – page 113
What I Do Well: My Strengths
Introduce the concept of strengths, that everyone has things that they do well and that they use in their lives that make them who they are. With the class explore things that they do well and ask students to circle five they think they could do.
Me sharing
Me being kind
Me trying hard
Me saying “thank you”
Me listening well
Me smiling
Me showing good manners
Me saying “sorry”
Me being determined
Acknowledgement: Martin Seligman, Chris Peterson & VIA Institute
What I Do Well: My Strengths
Ask students to draw or write the five strengths they chose for themselves from page 4 on the thumb and each finger on the hand below. In the palm of the hand ask them to draw themselves doing one of the five.
My Strengths Word Search
As a class look for three words together to get students on the right track. Share the strategy of looking for the most uncommon letter in a word first to find the word.
My Circle of Safety
Who are adults you trust who are always there to keep you safe and healthy?
Ask students to draw a picture of or stick a photo in of each special person in their circle of safety.
Person 1
Name:__________________________
Person 2
Name:__________________________
Myself feeling happy and safe with people in my Circle of Safety.
Person 4
Name:__________________________
Person 3 Name:__________________________
I Can Do It
There are plenty of fun activities for you to try for the first time. If you can’t do some of them straight away, the main thing is that you keep trying to get better each time you attempt them. Do you know that the man who invented the electric light globe tried to do it over 1000 times before he got it to work? Describe or draw some things you would like to try?
Mindfulness Maze
Find a path through the maze!
From here to here!
Weekly Big 3 Check In
Colour in the emojis depending on how you feel you did this week.
Eat healthy
Drink water
Sleep well
Activity. Which of these monsters isn’t in a pair?
Things to do/Reading 2025
MONDAY Book Title: minutes______ pages_____
TUESDAY Book Title: minutes______ pages_____
WEDNESDAY Book Title: minutes______ pages_____
THURSDAY Book Title: minutes______ pages_____
FRIDAY
Helpful Self-Talk
Your brain helps you to do things such as writing, sleeping, breathing and playing. Every day, you have a lot of thoughts, some will be negative but most will be positive. Self-talk is saying little positives to yourself inside your head over and over, such I am finding these words hard but I will try to learn them. Self-talk helps you to do what you need to do. Make up some self-talk.
Mindfulness Time
Bug Watching. Bugs are all around you when you look for them. Concentrate hard on finding and then watching them move. Draw them.
Mindfulness Colouring In
Things to do/Reading 2025
MONDAY Book
TUESDAY Book
WEDNESDAY Book
THURSDAY Book
Books You Have Read
Title of Book Author how much you enjoyed the book
