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Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame Street (English)

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Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame Street (English)

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Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame Street (Choices A - Part 1)

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LISTEN BETTER to your body to help calm down, back away and get in less trouble. Award-winning…educator endorsed. FREE download discussion ideas, poster, video, song and interactive lessons.

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Listen Better Kids #5- Lesson “Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns It’s OK to Back Away;"

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Growth Mindset (1 of 5) | Social Emotional Learning for kids

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Reading Chapter 3 of Learn Like a Pirate ( you can see my blog post HERE) got me so excited about next year. Changes are in the air ... I'm switching grades (I'll have a 4/5 split with mostly fives), switching rooms (moving to the room next door and am so excited to get to decorate with a new theme and color scheme), and switching teaching styles (HELLO student-led classroom)! SO excited.

Not 5 minutes after I finished writing my blog post for chapter 3 of Learn Like a Pirate, a fabulous idea for introducing our student-led classroom to my students popped into my head and I started writing a new blog post (and as an added bonus, I got to put off doing the dishes for a little while longer).

The Activity:

One of my favorite team-building activities to do on the first day is a cup-stacking challenge - you can read more about it HERE and HERE. Collaborating like this is a great way to get your students working together to solve problems and helps set up great whole group discussions about how to work together to meet goals and learn from your mistakes. Right away, I knew how I could use this group activity to introduce the ideas behind the student-led classroom. You need 6 stacking cups (I use solo cups), one elastic, and enough string for one piece per person in the group (I usually do groups of 4). Students need to move the cups from one formation to another using only the elastic and string - at no time can their hands (or any body parts, for that matter) touch the cups. Teachers should give no hints or instruction about how to move the cups - groups need to figure out what strategies work for them as part of their team-building.

How I Will Change the Activity:

The first thing is to change the way the cups were stacked at the beginning. Instead of having 2 rows of 3, the cups will first be stacked in a pyramid. I wrote a "T" on the top cup.

They will have to break down the pyramid, starting from the top, before they can rebuild the stack (which will be the six cups fitting together in one stack with the T cup on the bottom).

If the stack falls while they are making it, they will have to work together to get it standing again. All of this will happen without any teacher instruction or input outside of showing them what the final stack should look like and instructing them at the beginning that at no time can their hands touch the cups - they have to figure out how to move the cups using only string and elastics.

Explaining the Student-Led Classroom:

OK - here's where I turn it into our introduction to the student-led classroom. After all groups have finished, we'll come together in a class meeting. I'll stack the cups back into the pyramid shape from the beginning and explain that the formation represents the "old way" of how my classroom used to run. The cup on top is the teacher (me) with the cups underneath representing the students (them).

The activity (like all activities in the "old" classroom) had to start with the teacher first (just like they had to move that cup first). Through the activity, the students worked together, solved problems, and came up with strategies to change the formation (while I say this I will move the cups into the ending formation - the stack of 6 cups with the top cup now on the bottom). I will explain that what used to be the top cup (the teacher) is now on the bottom - supporting all the other cups (the students). All the cups fit perfectly together in the new formation (our "new" classroom). The bottom cup (the teacher) is the strong foundation and the support for the students - who are now on top - forming a student-led classroom.

We can also talk (notice I didn't say "I'll tell them" - I'm working on these changes already) about challenges - sometimes the stack fell, just like we will sometimes encounter problems with this new way of doing things, but by working together, we can build it back up again. We can end with a student-created anchor chart about our learning and insights from this activity.

I am SO excited about this. It ties in the ideals of growth mindset AND introduces the methods of the student-led classroom. I think it's going to be a GREAT year!

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Reading Chapter 3 of Learn Like a Pirate ( you can see my blog post HERE) got me so excited about next year. Changes are in the air ... I'm switching grades (I'll have a 4/5 split with mostly fives), switching rooms (moving to the room next door and am so excited to get to decorate with a new theme and color scheme), and switching teaching styles (HELLO student-led classroom)!

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This can be used on its own or along with the book Giraffes Can't Dance

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Sesame Street - Ernie Learns to Stop and Think

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Have You Filled a Bucket Today? Read Aloud

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FREE Growth Mindset Quote Posters & Coloring Pages - SEL Character Education

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This FREE Growth Mindset sample includes 5 different growth mindset mantras. You will receive a poster and coloring sheet for each of the 5 included. Use these posters to teach children about their elastic brain, a fixed and growth mindset, perseverance, learning from mistakes, failures, challenges,…

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Back to School Worksheet for Kids - SMART Goals Printable

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What are you most excited about this school year?

You'll have to take our word for it that the wheel landed on What are you most excited about this school year?. Your browser cannot display the wheel of choices. Please upgrade to a newer browser that supports HTML5 (most new ones do). Wheel Decide would normally show a wheel right here with choices that you can set (lunch, games, dinner, anything!). You can spin it to get a random decision. Make your own wheel of dinner, wheel of fortune, wheel of lunch, wheel of whatever you want now!

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What are you most excited about this school year? You'll have to take our word for it that the wheel landed on What are you most excited about this school year?. Your browser cannot display the wheel of choices. Please upgrade to a newer browser that supports HTML5 (most new ones do).

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Story about two friends noticing a difference and trying new things.

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POWER Academic Strength and Conditioning

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Story Time for Kids with POWER ASC | Salt in His Shoes | Children's Book Read Aloud

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pbskids.org

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Kid President

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Kid President + Glad to Give present How Good Spreads

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Building Empathy for Kids | Social & Emotional Rap Education

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Video Lesson - Friendship Soup Recipe: A NED Short

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Wonkidos Playing with Friends FULL EPISODE

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Kid President's Guide to Making New Friends

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Kid President's Guide to Making New Friends

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Kid President's Guide to Making a New Friend

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E-comic book style story

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Empathy | An ARTHUR Interactive Comic | PBS LearningMedia

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Explore the topic of empathy in this interactive comic, So Funny I Forgot to Laugh, based on the characters and storyline from the PBS children's series ARTHUR. When Arthur takes his teasing too far, it upsets Sue Ellen. Can Arthur find a way to apologize for bullying Sue Ellen and save their friendship?

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- [Narrator] Welcome back. So we've learned that it's important to keep working through your frustrations by using the right learning strategies. The more you work through your frustration, the more your brain grows, right. But it can be difficult to work through that frustration without a clear direction. That's why it's important to make smart goals. It's an acronym. It goes like this. Specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, timely. Because look, you can wish all you want and say one day I'm gonna go to the moon. And you can want that like your life depended on it. But a wish is not a goal. An example of a moon plan that consists of smart goals would go something like this. In 20 years, I will have studied enough physics and chemistry, flown jet planes in the Air Force, worked out four times a week, and gotten a job as a astronaut for NASA. And this will enable me to fly a spacecraft to the moon and put my feet on it for science reasons. Specific. Put your feet on the moon. Measurable. Are your feet touching the surface of the moon? Actionable. It is actionable, that is to say doable, to study physics and chemistry, enlist in the Air Force, and go to the gym. Realistic. It's hard, but it's not impossible to become an astronaut. Timely, here's where more realism kicks in. You won't be able to go to the moon as an astronaut overnight. 20 years seems a little more reasonable. But let's take this back to a more sensible time scale and look at our friend, Thinky Pinky. Hey buddy. TP here is interested in pull ups, wants to be able to lift their entire mass with just the arms, this one. But pull ups are hard. So let's take a look at Thinky Pinky's reflection journal. Quote, I want to be able to do two consecutive pull ups by the end of the year by practicing pull ups at the gym three times per week. Why is this a smart goal? S is for specific. TP wants to work on pull ups. And they're not interested in biking or weight training. There's one skill that Thinky Pinky wants to work on and that's pull ups. M is for measurable. What's the metric for TP's success? Two in a row. Two pull ups, one right after the other. You've either done it or you haven't. Measurable. A is for actionable. Can it be broken down into individual tasks. Yeah. Go into the gym three times a week to practice feels very actionable indeed. R is for realistic. TP's not training to lift a car. Just some pull ups. T is for timely. There's a time limit on this. Thinky Pinky wants to do this in a year's time. All together, that's smart goal you got there, TP. With the power of persistence, smart goals, and the right kind of help, you can do anything you set your mind to. You can learn anything. Happy goal setting.

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How to write a SMART goal (video) | Khan Academy

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Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

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Abdul loves to tell stories. But writing them down is hard. His letters refuse to stay straight and face the right way. And despite all his attempts, his papers often wind up with more eraser smudges than actual words. Abdul decides his stories just aren’t meant to be written down…until a special visitor comes to class and shows Abdul that even the best writers—and superheroes—make mistakes.

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Kameeka is confident that today she will finally beat her rival, Jamara, and become the Hula-Hoopin’ Queen of 139th Street. But then Mama reminds her that today is their neighbor Miz Adeline’s birthday, and Kameeka has a ton of chores to do to get ready for the party they are hosting. Kameeka’s disappointed to be stuck at home and can only think about the hoopin’ competition. Distracted, Kameeka accidentally ruins Miz Adeline’s birthday cake, and has to confess to her that there won’t be a cake for her special day. But then Miz Adeline’s confesses something too: she’s also got the itch—the hula-hoopin’ itch! Her fingers start snappin’. Her hips start swingin’. Soon everyone’s hips are swinging as the party spills out onto the street. The whole neighborhood’s got the itch—the hula-hoopin’ itch! With vibrant illustrations by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen is a charming celebration of family and community ties.

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'The Hula-Hoopin' Queen' read by Oprah Winfrey

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Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash.

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Callie is very proud of her brother Charlie. He's good at so many things - swimming, playing the piano, running fast. And Charlie has a special way with animals, especially their dog, Harriett. But sometimes Charlie gets very quiet. His words get locked inside him, and he seems far away. Then, when Callie and Charlie start to play, Charlie is back to laughing, holding hands, having fun. Charlie is like any other boy - except he has autism.

In this story, told from a sister's point of view, we meet a family whose oldest son teaches them important lessons about togetherness, hope, tolerance, and love.

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'My Brother Charlie' read by Holly Robinson Peete

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The Rainbow Fish is an award-winning book about a beautiful fish who finds friendship and happiness when he learns to share. The book is best known for its morals about the value of being an individual and for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.

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'The Rainbow Fish' read by Ernest Borgnine

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Lewis Hamilton Reads 'Small's Big Dream' by Manjeet Mann | CBeebies Bedtime Stories

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Building Empathy for Kids | Social & Emotional Rap Education

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Sesame Street: Respect | Word on the Street

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Behavior Buddies: THE RESPECTFUL RHINO | Children’s Read Aloud | Show Respect | Respectful Behavior

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Halloween Reading Comprehension- Responsibility 

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Halloween Reading Comprehension- Responsibility 

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Halloween Reading Comprehension- Responsibility 

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Why Responsibility Matters - Curious Beanie's Heartfelt Adventure | Kids Learning Educational Video

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Being Responsible: A book about Responsibility by Mary Small 

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Being Responsible: A book about Responsibility by Mary Small 

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Being Responsible: A Book About Responsibility - a read out loud story book

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If I Built a Car – 🚗 Creative read aloud kids book by Chris Van Dusen

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Kindness Bucket Fillers and Bucket Dippers 

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Kindness Bucket Fillers and Bucket Dippers 