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Ambassadors make a calendar with activities and a spirit week

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Stop everything & write a Kindness note

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Student Ambassadors create the Calendar for Happiness Month and present to staff at Happiness Meeting :)

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Utilizing chimes to begin PDs with a mindful moment

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Relating squiggle stories to a certain topic, draw a picture and have it relate to your goal

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Every day after recess, students meditate with calming music in the background.

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Stop and write something you are thankful for inthe moment or in general.

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Student Ambassadors help create a calendar. They create a spirit week and lead some lessons throughout classrooms that relate to positive psychology.

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Stop, Drop and Meditate! An announcement is made after both lunches for a whole school guided meditation for meditation month.

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Meditation Resources that are shared with lunch supervisors

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Go Noodle Brainexercise with Mr. Catman has great brain breaks

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Prior to testing (MAP) guide students to close their eyes and think about their happy place. This way they go into the test with a calmer state of mind.

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Have one student leave the room. All students should find a new seat. Ask a second student to leave the room but stand in a different spot in the hallway. Invite the first student back in and see if they can guess who left the room.

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Gratitude Game: Pick Up Sticks

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Match Me Game: Make different hand motions and have students "match you" with a quiet voice.

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Student Ambassadors made happiness tactic videos to teach the whole school about each of the 5 tactic. These videos were shared during our virtual Happiness Month kickoff

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Our Ambassadors have a student calendar of activities and our happiness team makes a staff happiness calendar. Some of the days are tied together, but not all of them.

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The squiggle activity could be used as a celebration or "early finishing" task

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The app Calm has some short meditations like 3-5 minutes that you could do during your lunch or before or after school to relax and prepare

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Teacher's embed "Would you rather" and "Did you know"questions

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Playing "pop" during small groups with various target skills (i.e., rhyme, alliteration, rote counting)

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We use sound baths in primary to calm the kiddos down and bring awareness to the moment https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDuDgCZyGUg&pp=ygUGI3BtY2Jv

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Spiritual Healing Sound Bath | Releasing Pain | Transformation | Awakening to Your True Self

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Some teachers use a singing bowl for focus. Students close their eyes and listen for the three chime sounds, then hear the bowl "sing." Eyes stay closed until they can no longer hear the sound.

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Squiggle Stories during transition times

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We are already talking about having stations for staff to do these activities at a staff development meeting soon! Loved the activities!

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not-weird ASMR videos after lunch (sand-cutting, soap squishing, Lego videos, cute baby animals, etc.)

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Happiness month calendar that focuses on a tactic each week

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Popcorn with endings (words ending in -ing, -ed, etc) or in math with skip counting.

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Use this template, add your own squiggle, and get creative!

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Our Happiness Month calendar focuses on one of the five habits each day, and student ambassadors help plan the daily activities

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7's: Classroom clapping games, rock/paper/scissors challenge, Number counting (popcorn style)

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Spirit week related to the 5 tactics and incorporating respect week

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At the beginning of each month the student ambassadors come around with Spark to share the tactic our school is focusing on for the month. They share a blurb about the tactic and our focus to each classroom in the school.

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Used this as an easy bank to pull ideas from based on needs.

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Rainbow Breaths, rolling dice to decide how many breaths to do, flower breaths, elephant breaths

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We do touch two walls for a brain break/reset when needed.

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Book Study: "Teach Happier This School Year: 40 Weeks of Inspiration" by Suzanne Dailey

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Collins Cares club creates a Happiness Calendar. At least one day each week we include a whole school happiness activity.

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Shake your right hand 7 times then left; repeat with right foot, left foot

Start over with 6 times...right hand, shake 6 times, left hand etc.

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Voice recorded audio that makes students breath in, breath out or breath in and out like a whale, blowing out a candle, rainbow breathing, pizza breathing, and soup breathing.

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Cosmic Kids Yoga - themes that are engaging for students (Spiderman)

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The teacher asks students to decide if they think the coin will land on heads or tails. If they think heads, they should keep their hands touching their head. If they think it will be tails, they should keep their hands on their hips. Flip the coin. Everyone who guessed correctly stays in the came, and everyone else sits. Continue until one person is left.

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Google the national day such as national hot dog day and have students draw or write for 3 minutes anything related to hotdogs. It’s a fun way to start the class

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Pick a student to lead it out OR use the "Simon Says Extreme" videos on Youtube. Added bonus that students get to practice integrity.

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Created a happiness tactics bookmark to be shared at our resource fair at conferences

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Cognitive Shift - Saying alphabet backwards in English (and Japanese :))

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One Word/Action Story: students create a story, adding one word or action at a time. students must repeat every word/action previously said/done before adding their own.

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These would be great to call back students attention at assemblies! Transitions after lunch when there are not bells to start class, to refocus.

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Student ambassador's help create a student calendar that will appeal to students. Reps create a teacher calendar to give all staff "happy vibes" throughout the month of March.

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Meditation videos

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Play a round of SET online - every day is a new game!

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Kick off assembly for Happiness month with the Student Ambassadors creating and then performing skits for each tactic. Generated ideas for daily tactic practice for our March calendar.

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think of

5 things you see

4 things you hear

3 things you can feel

2 things you can smell

1 thing you can taste

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Use indoor recess choiceboard (link to wordle, online puzzles, Just Dance videos, etc.) Students can choose an activity for indoor break and participation is optional.

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Drop and dance, karaoke

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Dooley focuses on one tactic each day of the week throughout the month. Ex - Meditation on Mondays, Fun 15 on Fridays

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Underground Spirit Week, Ultimate Rock Paper Scissors Challenge, Awkward Staff Holiday Photos inspired by TikTok

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We are planning on doing a family happiness event - 2nd annual. There will be different stations for families to participate in.

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Happiness Team creates a calendar of a variety of events. Each day of the week follows a theme. For example, "Mindful Mondays" making each Monday in the month have a related activity.

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5 Tactics focused spirit week leading up to Happiness Month

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Teacher says "I'm going to a desert island and I'm bringing ____" based on a topic, category, or pattern. Then students have to make guesses, if it fits the category then they can "come" to the desert island. Students try to figure out what it might be so they can join! Can be done just verbally or writing down all the answers that work.

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Student ambassadors wore orange and used orange flair (pom-poms, etc) to welcome students at main entrance!

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We have an all school bulletin board with affirmations. Teachers and students write down affirmations that are displayed in our hallways.

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Happiness Month Glow Party

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Sound baths to refocus the kiddos

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These could be good during SEL between lessons or for 1/2 days.

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Happiness Month Calendar:

fun 15 week - with links to activities (i.e., meditation, exercise, etc. teachers can do with students)

spirit week - week leading up to break

idea - each day of the week represents a different tactic (i.e., meditation monday, thankful tuesday, etc.)

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Ambassadors lead assembly (happiness), orange frog visit, buddy class activities, flash mob staff dance

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Link had an experience where students from each grade level explained what a Happiness Tactic was and shared it with the rest of the school. We also invited parents and the community in to learn about the tactics.

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Students went on the annoucements in the morning each day, the first week they gave a reminder of a different happiness tactic. (Meditation Monday, Gratitude Tuesday, etc). The next few weeks they gave a quick way this tactic could be done that day.

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In the staff lounge we have a book shelf and staff can bring or take a book to read. We have fiction, nonfiction and children’s books. It’s been a great way to share and talk about books!

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Ink In Motion https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ICxC5ekWnUc

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We had students write ways they see kindness at IKE on feathers to create an Eagle displayed in our cafeteria. One idea would be to have students write what makes them happy.