- Changes help us grow and learn
- Skill building and confidence building activities
- Resolutions, overcoming barriers to challenges
- Making change
Public Service Announcement:
We challenge you to look at change as possibility. Let’s see it from a new perspective as an opportunity to grow and learn.
Thought for the Month:
- “Perhaps we can’t control it but we can learn to ride it … like rapids on a great river. To take advantage of the flow and use it to take us where we want to go. To live in uncertainty, and yet act with confidence.” - Dewitt Jones
- “I can choose to think, feel and act. No other person makes me feel a certain way.”-Anonymous
- “There are no unresourceful students, only unresourceful states.” - Anonymous
- “Change the state and behaviour is changed.” - Anonymous
Suggested Whole School Events/Activities:
- Plan to have an art show of student generated motivational celebration posters.
- Make a journal circulate through the school and have individuals make entries on skills being built, resolutions being mastered and .or barriers overcome.
Classroom Activities:
- Prepare Celebrate buttons or Celebrate calling cards to go out to individuals in the community.
- Do art work for the Virtual Gallery of Health.
- Have students write a short story on what new talent they are developing or maybe it is a positive change in their life (New Years resolution) they are working on mastering.
- Have students develop positive catch words, high five (secret handshake) or gesture unique to Celebrate.
Suggested Reading:
- Helping Your Kids Cope With Divorce the Sandcastle Way * - M.Gary Neuman
- Oma’s Quilt (E)** - Paulette Bourgeois
- Stargirl (M/H)*** - Jerry Spinelli
- Chrysanthemum (E)*** - Kevin Henkes
- Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge (E)* - Mem Fox
- It’s Hard to be Five (E)** - Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell
- When Bad Thing Happen (Grades 2-4) - Lori Little
- Some Things Are Scary (E)* - Florence Parry Heide
- “I Think I Can, I Know I Can!”(E)* - Susan Issacs & Wendy Ritchey, Ph.D.
- What You Can See You Can Be! - David Anderson
- Baseball Ballerina* - Kathryn Cristaldi
*Available in the Provincial Library System
http://vision.gnb.ca/welcome.html**Available at Benjamin Books
Resources:
Supplementary Resources (found in the green hanging file folder):
- Teachers Guide from the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation (see attached)
- Mental Health Fitness Tips
- Celebrate What’s Right with the World DVD by Dewitt Jones & Leader’s Guide (elementary schools may borrow a copy by contacting Sandi McQuinn sandi.mcquinn@gnb.ca or 848-6684).
- List of Other Recommended Literature
- Information on 40 Developmental Assets
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