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Sample Lesson

Grades 3-5

Facilitator Guide

1-2 page guide sets up the educator for successful facilitation.

Access the Facilitator Guide for this sample session to follow along.

Facilitator Guide (download)

START

Each lesson follows a facilitator guide and begins with routine entry tasks to check on students' well-being, review their assigned task from the previous session, and remind them of the group expectations.

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Facilitator Guide

1-2 page guide sets up the educator for successful facilitation.

Access the Facilitator Guide for this sample session to follow along.

Follow along in the facilitator guide

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Entry/Exit Routines

You can see the entry tasks on the following slides!

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Hang this Welcome poster in the learning space for entry and exit routines.

Don't forget your

Entry Tasks!

Calm Session 3:

Grades 3-5

Power to Change

What We Think

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Let's Get Started

Temperature Check: How do you feel?​​

Remember Group Agreements

Mission Check: How did it go?

.Group Agreements.

Need to use a Power?

.Temperature Check.

.Mission Check.

School

Family

Agreements are made in Session 1!

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Powerline

Let's Connect

On the next slide, there will be a prompt.  

Move to the area of the room that reflects your opinion.

Imagine the number line is across the room from 1 to 10. 1 means "I loathe it!" and 10 means "I love it!"  

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CONNECT

Engaging activities to promote relationship-building between the students and the educator.

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Powerline

Let's Connect

On the next slide, there will be a prompt.  

Move to the area of the room that reflects your opinion.

Imagine the number line is across the room from 1 to 10. 1 means "I loathe it!" and 10 means "I love it!"  

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10

The Connection activity is different each session!

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Loathe It 

Love It

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Organizing School Supplies

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Loathe It 

Love It

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Broccoli

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Ready to Learn

Put your hands on your belly.

Person with an orange shirt taking a breath out with their hands on their stomach.
Person with an orange shirt taking a breath in with their hands on their stomach.

Breathe in and push your belly out!

Breathe out slowly.

LEARN

Direct, explicit instruction begins with a regulation strategy and orienting students to the objectives, then teaching and practicing skills through learning activities and personal connections. 

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Ready to Learn

Put your hands on your belly.

Person with an orange shirt taking a breath out with their hands on their stomach.
Person with an orange shirt taking a breath in with their hands on their stomach.

Breathe in and push your belly out!

Breathe out slowly.

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Let's Learn Together

Our thoughts have power

We have the Power to change what we think

Practice our Thought Power

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Scientists found that plants grew better and lived longer when spoken to kindly, but wilted and struggled when treated with unkind words​.

Plant in an orange pot with yellow, wilted leaves.
Plant in an orange pot with green leaves.

Follow along in the Facilitator Guide

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Positive Self-Talk

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Turn and talk:

What is 1 thing that stood out to you in the video?

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Unhelpful Thoughts  vs  Helpful Thoughts

Unhelpful Thoughts bring you down like "I always mess up," or "I'll never be good at this."

Helpful Thoughts build you up, like "I can do this," or "I am trying my best."

Thought bubble with green arrow pointing upward.
Thought bubble with red arrow pointing downward.

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Thought Power

Our brain is a muscle! We can make it stronger when we think helpful thoughts.

Our thoughts come from our brain. ​​

This is our Thought Power!

This girl on this screen is Nia. There are 6 characters that appear across all 3-5 curricula!

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Green eye icon
Thought bubble with red arrow pointing downward transitioning to a thought bubble with green arrow pointing upward.

Catch It

Check It

Change It

Notice unhelpful thoughts.

"Is this really true?", or "Can I think of it another way?"

Try a more helpful thought instead!

Yellow checkmark icon

Thought Power Steps

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Catch it!

Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.

Click to find out!

Helpful

Unhelpful

"I need some more practice."

"I'm just bad at this."

Helpful

Unhelpful

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"They're doing it on purpose to bother me."

"Maybe they didn't mean what they said."

Helpful

Unhelpful

Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.

Click to find out!

Catch it!

Unhelpful

Helpful

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Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.

Click to find out!

Catch it!

Helpful

Unhelpful

"I can ask for help."

"Everyone is better than me."

Helpful

Unhelpful

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Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.

Click to find out!

Catch it!

"I always mess things up."

"It's okay to make mistakes."

Helpful

Unhelpful

Unhelpful

Helpful

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Check it!

Is it really true?

Can I think of it another way?

Change it!

Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?

"I give up. No one cares anyway."

"I will never get the job I want when I grow up."

Hand with 1 finger up
Hand with 2 fingers up
Hand with 3 fingers up
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"I am still learning. I can ask for help so that I can get better."

"I got a bad grade on my math test. I will never do a good job."

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"I got a bad grade on my math test. I will never do a good job."

Change it!

"I give up. No one cares anyway."

"I am still learning. I can ask for help so that I can get better."

"I will never get the job I want when I grow up."

Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?

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Check it!

Yellow checkmark

"I missed the goal in soccer. I'm not doing this anymore!"

Change it!

"I give up. I am not good at any sport."

"I can try again next time. I have made goals before."

Hand with 1 finger up
Hand with 2 fingers up
Hand with 3 fingers up

"No one wants to be on the same team with me."

Is it really true?

Can I think of it another way?

Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?

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Check it!

Yellow checkmark

"I missed the goal in soccer. I always ruin the game."

Change it!

"I give up. I am not good at any sport."

"No one wants to be on the same team with me."

"I can try again next time. I have made goals before."

Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?

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Check it!

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"That's so unfair!"

"They did that on purpose!"

Hand with 1 finger up
Hand with 2 fingers up
Hand with 3 fingers up

  "Sometimes things don't go my way, which is okay."

"I am always getting blamed."

Is it really true?

Can I think of it another way?

Change it!

Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?

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Check it!

Yellow checkmark

"Something bad is going to happen. I just know it."

"They did that on purpose!"

  "Sometimes things don't go my way, which is okay."

"I am always getting blamed."

Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?

Change it!

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Check it!

Yellow checkmark

Sticky Thoughts

Green paper and pencil

Write an Unhelpful Thought (no names) on a sticky note.

Place the sticky note in the middle of a blank piece of paper.

Let's pretend a friend has shared this thought with us.

Write a helpful thought they could think instead.

Pass each paper around until each student has written a Helpful Thought in response to each Unhelpful Thought.

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Exit

School

Family

Group Agreement Check

Your Mission

EXIT

Students are given their "Mission", and exit routinely. 

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Exit

School

Family

Group Agreement Check

Your Mission

Students receive a Mission "ticket" to remind them of their Mission.

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Extend Communication

Pre-scripted communication to send to an adult at school and the student's family to support generalization of skills.

Facilitator Guide (download)

EXTEND

Adult support to encourage the student to use and apply their skills beyond the lesson.

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Extend Communication

Pre-scripted communication to send to an adult at school and the student's family to support generalization of skills.

You can see an example on the final page of the Facilitator Guide document.

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T2 Sample 3-5

By jadaklee

T2 Sample 3-5

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