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Grades 3-5
Calm Session 3
Powers to Change
What You Think
Powerline
On the following slides, we'll see 2 prompts. One side of the room represents “I love it!” and the other side stands for “I loathe it!". Imagine a number line from 1 to 10. After each prompt, move to the area of the room that reflects your opinion. 2 volunteers share why they chose that spot on the powerline.
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Organizing School Supplies
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Broccoli!
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Ready to Learn
Put your hands on your belly
Breathe in and push your belly out!
Breathe out slowly
Today we will learn:
Helpful versus unhelpful thoughts
Powers to change what we think
Scientists found that plants grew better and lived longer when spoken to kindly, but wilted and struggled when treated with unkind words.
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Positive Self-Talk
Turn and talk:
What is 1 thing that stood out to you in the video?
Unhelpful Thoughts 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 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!
Thought Power Steps
Catch It
Check It
Change It
Notice unhelpful thoughts.
"Is this 100% true?", or "Is there another way to see this?"
Try a more helpful thought instead!
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out!
Helpful
Unhelpful
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Unhelpful
"I can try my best."
"I can't do this."
Catch it!
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out!
"I can do hard things."
"There's no point in trying."
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Unhelpful
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Unhelpful
Catch it!
Catch it!
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out! or Skip to next activity
"I can ask for help."
"Everyone is better than me."
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Unhelpful
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Unhelpful
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"I always mess things up."
"It's okay to make mistakes."
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out!
Catch it!
Check it!
Is it true? Is there another way to see it?
I got a bad grade on my math test. I will never do a good job.
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
Check it!
Is it true? Is there another way to see it?
I got a bad grade on my math test. I will never do a good job.
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
Check it!
Is it true? Is there another way to see it?
I got a bad grade on my math test. I will never do a good job.
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
Check it!
Is it true? Is there another way to see it?
I miss the goal in soccer. I always ruin the game.
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
Check it!
Is it true? Is there another way to see it?
“Something bad is going to happen. I just know it.”
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
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 the circle until each student has written a Helpful Thought in response to each Unhelpful Thought.
Sticky Thoughts
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