YEARS P-2 MY WELLBEING JOURNAL
DISCOVERING MY BEST POSSIBLE SELF Enjoy learning more and more about yourself this year. My Name........................................................................................................................................... My Class.................................... My Teacher.....................................................................................
LEARNING CURVE WELLBEING CURRICULUM INDEX Discovering My Best Possible Self & Index.. 1
Being Kind Week.......................... 72 & 112
Introducing Me........................................... 2
Being a Leader Week................... 92 & 113
My Circle of Safety..................................... 3
Being Kind..............................................114
Good Ways to Act.......................... 4, 5 & 6
Values for Life Word Search...................115
Happy and Healthy.................................... 7
Personal Safety Awareness.....................116
Feelings and Emotions................................ 8
Good Ways to Act Maze........................117
How Do You Feel?...................................... 9
Books You Have Read............................118
Dolphin or Crocodile Thinking?................10
Hundred Chart and Alphabet Chart.......119
I Can and I Will Self-talk..........................11
Term 1 Reflections..................................120
Happy Ways to Look................................12
Term 2 Reflections..................................121
Exploring Happy Ways to Look................13
Term 3 Reflections..................................122
Being Grateful Week.................... 20 & 110
Term 4 Reflections..................................123
Working in a Team Week............. 50 & 111
Daily Wellbeing Boosters........................124
STRENGTHS FOR FRIENDSHIPS WEEKS Use these strengths to do good things for other people. Look at pages 110, 111, 112 and 113 for worksheets to use. Term 1: Being Grateful – week beginning on page 20 Term 2: Working in a Team – week beginning on page 50 Term 3: Being Kind – week beginning on page 72 Term 4: Being a Leader – week beginning on page 92
HOW TO BECOME YOUR BEST YOU... e happy, friendly and B have fun. Be on time and at school every day. Be hard working and try new ways to do things. Take notice and pay attention to be safe. Show you care for your teacher and other students.
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Draw yourself searching for words.
HAPPY AND HEALTHY For students to develop positive attitudes to life and healthy active lifestyles, it is important that we provide them with numerous opportunities to do good for others to feel good about themselves, and learn about healthy eating and exercise. This not only builds their own physical and social-emotional wellbeing, but it also brings the best out in other students around them.
Draw a picture of yourself running, swimming, riding a bike, skateboarding or other exercise you enjoy.
Draw a picture of two types of fresh and healthy vegetables and fruit you like.
Draw a picture of yourself doing jobs at home to help.
Draw a picture of yourself doing something good to help someone else.
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DOLPHIN THINKING
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CROCODILE THINKING
Being able to recognise whether they are thinking sensibly with their rational mind, which we will call Dolphin Thinking (calm), or thinking with their emotional mind, which we will call Crocodile Thinking (snappy), is a valuable self-awareness skill to cultivate in students. Asking them often at home and in class, “are you thinking like a Dolphin or are you thinking like a Crocodile?”, will raise their self-awareness and self-control.
Dolphin Thinking – draw what I look and act like when I am thinking like a dolphin. My drawing of Dolphin Thinking
Crocodile Thinking – draw what I look and act like when I am thinking like a crocodile. My drawing of Crocodile Thinking
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I CAN AND I WILL SELF-TALK Teaching students how to feel confident to use positive I can and I will self-talk, that they say so over and over to themselves in their heads, provides them with a powerful coping strategy when things don’t go their way. With the class, make up ten examples of positive I can and I will selftalk they could use to lift their efforts. For example, if they were scared, they could say, I can be brave and I will be brave to not be scared.
Trying –
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Learning –
I can and I will
Finish what I start
Try new ways to do things
Keep trying when it’s hard
Organise what I have to do
Never give up, never, never, never
Learn together with classmates
Help at home
Enjoy trying hard
Ask when I don’t understand something
hink of three good things that I’m happy T about every night
Enjoy doing hard things Learn from things that go wrong
Being Brave – I can and I will
Look for what is good in what I learn Learn how to use my strengths
Being Happy – I can and I will
Ask for help when I am upset
Love my family
Be happy with being me
Be in charge of my feelings
Smile and look for what is good
mile at the person I see in the mirror every S morning
Breathe slowly to relax myself when upset Come to school every day Do what I know is the right thing to do Learn the best ways to stay safe
Being Friendly – I can and I will
Listen to others carefully Say “hello” to every morning with a smile Keep my promises to others Ask others on their own to play with me Say happy and nice things about others Say “sorry” when I do something wrong Help others do well and be happy
Do my best to feel happy emotions Feel great by helping others Not be wild with unfriendly people Compare myself with me, no one else
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I can and I will njoy learning about E others’ needs and interests T ry different ways to solve problems with others Share kind things with other people S hare my feelings with my family When I feel “unsafe” talk to my circle of safety Practise asking for help when I need it Have fun and enjoy happy feelings with friends
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GOOD THOUGHTS: draw or describe
what you are looking forward to this week?
MINDFULNESS TIME: Shapes Search – Breathing slowly and sitting quietly, think about all your toys that have a triangle shape in them or are shaped like a triangle.
LITERACY:
WHO, WHAT, WHERE?
Read with mum, dad and/or grandparent.
Describe or draw: what is something you are proud of yourself for?
COLOURING IN TO HAVE FUN AND RELAX
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READERS ARE LEADERS
WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEK?
Reading Communication Week Beginning _____ / _____ / _____
MONDAY
Book Title
Tick the ones you did this week
No. pages Played with your pet
Read a book
Enjoyed exercise
Had fun laughing
Went for a walk
Time (mins.)
Book Title
No. pages
TUESDAY
Played with friends Time (mins.)
WEDNESDAY
Book Title
No. pages
Time (mins.)
THURSDAY
Book Title
Went shopping
Rode on a bus
Rode a bike
GRATITUDE: draw or describe what went well that you were grateful for this week.
No. pages
Time (mins.)
FRIDAY
Book Title
No. pages
Time (mins.)
Parent/Carer Signature:
HAPPY WAYS TO LOOK!
HOW DID YOU FEEL THIS WEEK?
Show what you would look like when you are:
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GOOD THOUGHTS: draw or describe
what you are looking forward to this week?
HEALTHY FRIENDSHIPS: When are times you have said “thank you” to, or done kind things for, other people? When have others done these for you?
NUMERACY:
WHAT TIME?
Every month, measure the height of your family members on a wall measuring chart.
Draw the hands on the clock face for: what time does your favourite TV show start?
COLOURING IN TO HAVE FUN AND RELAX
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READERS ARE LEADERS
WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEK?
Reading Communication Week Beginning _____ / _____ / _____
MONDAY
Book Title
Tick the ones you did this week
No. pages Sang a song
Tried something new
Wrote a story
Coloured in
Played a new game
Drew a picture
Laughed a lot
Time (mins.)
TUESDAY
Book Title
No. pages Visited relatives
Time (mins.)
WEDNESDAY
Book Title
No. pages
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THURSDAY
Book Title
Played sport
GRATITUDE:
draw or describe what went well that you were grateful for this week.
No. pages
Time (mins.)
FRIDAY
Book Title
No. pages
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Parent/Carer Signature:
WITH YOUR FAMILY, TALK ABOUT HOW YOU COULD USE
HOW DID YOU FEEL THIS WEEK?
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PERSONAL SAFETY AWARENESS Awareness of themselves and what is happening around them are important abilities to cultivate in students in order for them to keep themselves safe. As a class, brainstorm possible dangerous outcomes which could arise from the following situations, and then ask students to describe or draw them. What could happen to hurt yourself? Crossing a road, walking on a footpath, riding a bike, a scooter or a skateboard. Draw yourself doing one of these.
Burning yourself on a saucepan or hot plate, climbing something higher than you, or falling in a pool. Draw yourself doing one of these.
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Describe or draw what could happen
GOOD WAYS TO ACT MAZE On pages 4 & 5 students wrote down or drew on the hand what they thought their best good ways to act were. Encourage students to use these well, and have fun working out how to get to the centre of the mazes below.
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