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Great Teamwork Video - Very Fun to Watch

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The Power of Union is Strength - Crabs VS Ants VS Penguins Advertisement

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It's not a trick, purely talent and team work, but lots of patience and practice, and the result... stunning!!

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Do you use The 7 Habits of Happy Kids (or The Leader in Me) in your school or classroom? You'll love these award certificates which are the perfect way to recognize students as they model the habits throughout the year. Each certificate includes a space for student name and includes the habit number/description, a place to write how the student modeled the habit, and a signature/date line.

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The Idea Backpack: Getting Started with The 7 Habits of Happy Kids

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The Leader in Me: The 7 Habits of Happy Kids: Student Self Reflection Survey                                                                                                                                                                                 More

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Performed by the 5th Grade Chorus of Fuguitt Elementary School, Largo, FL. Lyrics: Here at Fuguitt, we all know The Seven Habits are the way to go! BE PROACTIVE, and do the right thing! Don't be asked - no bargaining! BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND; Make a plan so you won't get behind.

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The Leader in Me: The 7 Habits of Happy Kids - Reflection Pages.  One for each habit!

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MLT, easy as Do Re Mi:   A Music Learning Theory classroom: 7 habits songs: Habit 1: Be Proactive

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MLT, easy as Do Re Mi: A Music Learning Theory classroom: 7 habits songs: Habit 1: Be Proactive

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Working Together PowerPoint and Worksheet

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This PowerPoint offers a creative and fun way to teach elementary students about synergizing and working together. If you teach at at Leader in Me School this goes along great with Habit 6 of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Happy Kids. Great for teachers who want to teach important social skills and habits.Save money by purchasing this Leadership Bundle.

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7 Synergize: good teamwork and bad teamwork

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The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

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Ms. Sepp's Counselor Corner: Habit 6: Synergize

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The Seven Habits and Leader in Me Classroom Printables

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The Seven Habits and Leader in Me Classroom Printables

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Kid President Pep Talk about Teamwork and Leadership

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Kid President Pep Talk about Teamwork and Leadership

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Kid President   Pep Talk about Teamwork and Leadership 1

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Yesterday was our last day of school! It was a very sweet day. Usually I feel like even the best behaved kids lose their minds and it becomes a tough day for me, but this year the kids remained tender and kind to the end. We have our end of year party the day before the last day but save the very last day for a special time to play together and build them up. It is so nice to have this short day just to ourselves to really say goodbye.

After announcements and a slideshow by the school, we began Minute to Win it Games in our packed up classroom!

Here are the games that we play in picture:
You can get free minute to win it games HERE.

GO FISHING
Students fan a tissue paper fish from one side of the room to the other and into the box.

Cheering section- morale was high for game 1.

THERE SHE BLOWS
Students must use a straw to blow a cup across three desks.

Sometimes this happens. 🙂

NOSE DIVE
Put vasoline on each student's nose and they must pick up a cotton ball and carry it across the room to a plate. I had them transfer 3 cotton balls.

BALLOONS UP
Students have to keep their balloon up in the air for one minute. (It can't touch anything else)

BREAKFAST SCRAMBLE
Students work in pairs or threes to put together a cereal box cover. (Took more than a minute but FUN)

CHANDELIER
Students place one cup on the floor then one plate on top, then two cups on that plate then a new plate then three cups, plate, four cups, plate and finally 5 cups, plate. It takes 15 dixie cups and 5 plates for each station.

NOODLING AROUND
Students put a spaghetti noodle in their mouths and then have to get three rigatoni noodles on the spaghetti noodle.

After minute to win it games were complete, we went to lunch and recess. While students were at recess I rolled out the red butcher paper and set out our candy awards.

You can get these free candy awards HERE. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Candy-Awards-1180313

Students sat on both sides of our red carpet and I had the imovie screen paused on our screen to make it look like a fun backdrop. (I didn't have time energy to make a super cute back drop)

Each student had a turn to walk to red carpet as I spoke about their amazing unique qualities and handed them their awards.

(He made this shirt that says I love you Mrs. Tunstall the night before) I was crying first thing in the morning over that one.

This completes year 18 for me! I am heading in for a work day!

Happy End of the Year!!!!

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Our Last Day in Pictures! - Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

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Yesterday was our last day of school! It was a very sweet day. Usually I feel like even the best behaved kids lose their minds and it becomes a tough day for me, but this year the kids remained tender and kind to the end.

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I facilitated a lesson with 4th graders that involved spaghetti, marshmallows, and cooperation! I divided the class into groups of three or four students. Each group received dry spaghetti noodles and a bowl of marshmallows. I instructed students that they would be making a tower with their group members. I told them that the group who had the highest tower at the end of ten minutes would get a prize from me.

After the 10 minutes were up, I asked groups what they thought the point of the activity was. Students suggested that the activity was about "working together." I asked students what was difficult for them during this activity. They commented that it was difficult to work with others, it was frustrating when the spaghetti broke, and that it was hard to figure out how to make the towers stand with all of their group members helping at the same time. I asked the students what they had to do during this activity to work together. They commented that they had to share, ask each other for ideas, listen to their group members, explain things, show each other through examples, and be patient.

The students really enjoyed this activity. This lesson is a hands-on way to show the importance of cooperation.

What creative lessons do you facilitate to teach students about cooperation?

Danielle is a K-12 Certified School Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, and blogger at School Counselor Blog, a place where school counselors share innovative ideas, creative lesson plans, and quality resources. Connect with Danielle via email, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, and become a fan of the School Counselor Blog Facebook Page.

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I facilitated a lesson with 4th graders that involved spaghetti, marshmallows, and cooperation! I divided the class into groups of three or ...

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I have been waiting to teach Habit 6 to our fifth graders because team building activities are my favorite activities to do with groups of kids! Habit 6 is all about the we, not the I.

Together Is Better:

I value other people's strengths and learn from them. I get along well with others, even people who are different than me. I work well in groups. I seek out other people's ideas to solve problems because I know that by teaming with others we can create better solutions than anyone of us can alone. I am humble.

To begin, we each did a personality assessment that I found available to download here. Students rank themselves on the qualities they feel are most important to them across each row. It is important to learn about your own strengths and weaknesses so you can function best in a group. It is also important to learn about your group member's strengths and weaknesses so you can function best in a group.

After we all figured out which "fruit" best described our personality, I told them which fruit they would be paired up with for a group challenge. They read through their partner's descriptions to think about ways that would improve their teamwork and communication skills. Then I introduced the challenge...the LEANING TOWER OF FEETZA!

I found this free activity on a great website filled with team building activities, Playmeo. I typed up a quick synopsis to explain the goal of the activity, and with such a simple task (or so we all had thought), I set them off to start right away!

Hilarity ensued, conflict ensued, problem solving ensued, chaos ensued! We all had a really great time and an even better debrief session on the challenge, on synergizing and on how knowing more about ourselves can make such a different in our everyday interactions with others.

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I have been waiting to teach Habit 6 to our fifth graders because team building activities are my favorite activities to do with groups of kids! Habit 6 is all about the we, not the I. Together Is Better: I value other people's strengths and learn from them.

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My school became a leadership charter last year and we've been looking for ways to incorporate leadership skills throughout our curriculum. We did a professional book study on Steven R. Covey's The Leader in Me: How Schools Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. This powerful book is based on Covey's 7 habits of highly effective leaders, and gave us a common language to use with our students, kindergarten through grade 8.

Leadership habit #6 is SYNERGIZE: the ability to work well with others and use teamwork to achieve a common goal. The Cup Challenge takes minimal prep time and is a perfect lesson on synergy!!

Divide students into groups of 4. Give each group 6 large plastic cups, a rubberband, and 1 piece of yarn or string 12"-18" long. Demonstrate how to tie the string to the rubberband, forming 4 corners. This will be used as a tool, as each student pulls their yarn, stretching the rubber band larger. The group sets up their 6 cups: 3 mouth down and 3 mouth up, balanced on each other. The goal is for students using only their rubberband-yarn tool (no hands) to move the cups into a pyramid (base of 3 cups, 2 cups, 1 cup on top). Teams must use synergy for this to work!

Not only was this lesson so interesting (and entertaining!) to watch, but observing which groups actually worked together to be successful was eye-opening! One group built their pyramid so quickly, that I gave them 10 cups to build their pyramid (4-3-2-1)!

A fantastic discussion on synergy followed this Cup Challenge! Working together (or not) was very evident in certain groups; but they all now understand this necessary skill! How do you teach teamwork?

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My school became a leadership charter last year and we've been looking for ways to incorporate leadership skills throughout our curriculum. We did a professional book study on Steven R. Covey's The Leader in Me: How Schools Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time.