Don't forget your
Start Tasks!
Grades 3-5
Calm Session 3
Power to Change
What We Think
Let's Get Started
Temperature Check: How do you feel?
Remember Group Agreements
Mission Check: How did it go?
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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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
Breathe in and push your belly out
Breathe out slowly
Let's Learn Together
Our thoughts have power
We have the Power to change what we think
Practice our Thought Power
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 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 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 really true?", or "Can I think of it another way?"
Try a more helpful thought instead!
Catch it!
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out!
Helpful
Unhelpful
Helpful
Unhelpful
"I need some more practice."
"I'm just bad at this."
Catch it!
"They're doing it on purpose to bother me."
"Maybe they didn't mean what they said."
Helpful
Unhelpful
Helpful
Unhelpful
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out!
Catch it!
"I can ask for help."
"Everyone is better than me."
Helpful
Unhelpful
Helpful
Unhelpful
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out!
Catch it!
Helpful
Helpful
"It's okay to make mistakes."
"I always mess things up."
Decide which thought below is helpful and unhelpful.
Click to find out!
Unhelpful
Unhelpful
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 got a bad grade on my math test. I will never do a good job."
Check 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!
"I missed the goal in soccer. I'm not doing this anymore!"
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
Is it really true?
Can I think of it another way?
Check it!
"I missed the goal in soccer. I always ruin the game."
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
Check it!
"That's so unfair!"
Change it!
Which thought is more helpful: 1, 2, or 3?
Is it really true?
Can I think of it another way?
Check 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 until each student has written a Helpful Thought in response to each Unhelpful Thought.
Sticky Thoughts
Exit
Calm 3-5 Session 3
By Karen Madrid