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What does hope mean? Is hope wishing for something or is hope wanting something? There is a big difference.
A wish is like a fantasy, something you cannot control. But hope is something you want. It is something you know you can have because you can make it happen.
My Best Me makes hope easy to learn. More hope means better grades, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Hope will help you find friends, give you better chances and create a dream-come-true future.
My Best Me will teach you that hope is not a wish or an emotion; it is a decision you make. Anybody can have hope no matter who they are or the difficulties they face.
Have you ever gone treasure hunting? Hope is like a treasure hunt with a map. The treasure is something your really want. The journey to the treasure is your path. You will need to be strong and full of courage to make the journey.
Here are the three simple steps to hope
1. You set a GOAL. Your goals are all the treasures or things you want in your life.
2. You find a PATHWAY. These are the many different ways or roads that lead you to your treasures.
3. You build WILLPOWER. This is the strength and force within you to get to your treasures no matter what problems are in your way.
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Going Deeper
Set Goals
WHAT do you really want to be, do, or have in your life?
WHEN do you want to be, do, or have those things?
a. Your goals must be very important to you.
b. Your goals should be simple and clear.
c. The goals you set can be short-term (something you want today or in a week).
d. The goals you set can be long-term (something you want in the future).
e. Goals with dates are serious and powerful. Goals without dates are just dreams.
f. Write your goals down and put them where you can see them often.
Find Pathways
HOW will you achieve your goals?
WHICH ways will you find to make your goals become real?
a. Pathways always start where you are and bring you to your goals.
b. Pathways are many small steps that you take in the direction of your goals.
c. There are many pathways and more than one can lead to your goals.
d. Very few pathways go straight to your goals; they twist and turn.
e. The pathways can change many times on the way to your goal.
Build Willpower
WHY will you achieve your goals?
a. Willpower is found inside of you.
b. Willpower is the courage to go after your goals.
c. Willpower is a strong feeling inside of you that makes you want to reach your goals.
d. Willpower will keep you going when it is hard and you want to stop.
e. Willpower is intense and urges you to reach your goals.
f. Willpower is stronger than motivation.
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Hope Through Social Emotional Learning
“My Best Me” is your guide to discovering your true identity and purpose. Hope is important for your journey. Knowing who you are is the same as knowing where you are. When choosing goals and deciding on a pathway, knowing where you are gives you a place to start! Having a place to start will give you great confidence, a good attitude and the willpower to succeed.
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teamwork • willpower • leadership • goal setting • growth mindset • problem solving time management • reasoning skills • organizing skills • strategic thinking • conflict resolution willingness to learn • creative thinking • stress management • finance management communication skills • emotional intelligence • nonverbal communication
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Competencies
In the text, you will find five units that form the building blocks of a society, which will be used to train students. They will facilitate the use of this book.
IDENTITY
Discover who I am
My role
My personality
My character
HEALTH
Discover how to maintain order
Physical Mental Emotional
COMMUNITY
Discover how to interact with others
Family People like me
People different from me
Strangers
ENVIRONMENT
Discover why and how to manage nature
Natural resources
Plant life
Animal life
ECONOMICS
Discover how to multiply resources and produce wealth
Income generation
Financial literacy
Resource management
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Understanding The Icons
READ
A story, a poem, a saying or a script that adds to the subject
UNDERSTAND
To obtain knowledge, insight, and understanding through information
OBSERVE
To look, see, find, watch, and discover more
CREATE
To paint, color, and mark in a personal manner
PLAY
Engage in an experience and discovery together
WRITE
To write, mark, or sketch personal ideas or discoveries
APPLY
To bring into action, put to use, and demonstrate understanding
GIVE/SHARE
A contribution, present, or surprise to share with others
ACT
A task that involves direct experience and action
COMMENT
Discuss, consider, or examine certain subjects
REFLECT
Think, ponder, meditate, or wonder about important issues
CONCLUDE
A closing statement on the lesson subject with a final thought
WATCH
Watch a clip or film section and analyze the information
LISTEN
To chant, write, sing, or listen to a song, enjoy a harmony of sounds
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7 Identity Environment Health Economics Introduction: Identity ....................................... 9 Lesson 1: I Have Hope ................................. 10 Lesson 2: I Am Me! ...................................... 12 Lesson 3: I Have Senses ............................... 14 Lesson 4: We Are Different .......................... 16 Lesson 5: Faces and Feelings ...................... 18 Lesson 6: Pay Attention ............................... 20 Lesson 7: I Belong ........................................ 22 Lesson 8: I Grow, I Change .......................... 24 Personal Notes ................................................ 26 Introduction: Health ........................................ 27 Lesson 9: My Body Is Amazing .................... 28 Lesson 10: I Keep Clean ................................ 30 Lesson 11: I Eat Healthy ................................ 32 Lesson 12: I Am Active .................................. 34 Lesson 13: I Am Careful ................................. 36 Lesson 14: I Am Thankful ............................... 38 Personal Notes ................................................ 40 Introduction: Community ............................... 41 Lesson 15: I Am Surrounded ........................ 42 Lesson 16: I Am Polite .................................. 44 Lesson 17: We Work Together ...................... 46 Lesson 18: I Am Kind to Others ................... 48 Lesson 19: I Solve Problems ......................... 50 Lesson 20: I Am A True Friend ..................... 52 Personal Notes ............................................... 54 Introduction: Environment .............................. 55 Lesson 21: I Love Nature .............................. 56 Lesson 22: I Clean Up ................................... 58 Lesson 23: I Care for Animals ....................... 60 Lesson 24: I Care for Plants .......................... 62 Lesson 25: Teamwork for The World ............ 64 Personal Notes ............................................... 66 Introduction: Economics ................................ 67 Lesson 26: Wants and Needs ....................... 68 Lesson 27: Using Moneny ............................. 70 Lesson 28: Yours and Mine ........................... 72 Lesson 29: I Finish My Jobs .......................... 74 Lesson 30: Reaching My Dreams .................. 76 Glossary ..................................................... 78 Community Hope ................................................................ 2 Going Deeper ................................................. 3 Hope Through Social Emotional Learning ....... 4 Competencies ................................................. 5 Understanding the Icons ................................. 6 Contents
To learn I need hope to reach great goals
Pathways
Observe
What can you do?
Anything you set your mind to! Circle things you want to do someday.
Comment
Think of more things you want to do! Things you want to do are goals.
If you believe you can do it, you will find a way to do it. That is hope. Hope gives you power to do great things, even if they are hard.
Read
If you do something but it does not work, do it in a different way! Keep doing it until you reach your goal. Repeat:
“If at first you don’t succeed, Don’t stop, do it differently!”
Create
You will make a sign to wave!
• Color both sides.
• Glue a popsicle stick to one blank side.
• Glue the blank sides together.
• Turn the sign back and forth for all to see!
If at first you don’t succeed...
Don’t stop! Do it differently!
Goal
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Draw
What is this?
What are these? What is this?
Draw a line from the ball to the goal. Do not touch the cones! They are obstacles. Did you find a way around the cones?
Game
Play a game with a real goal and a real ball!
When it is your turn, roll, or kick the ball to your goal! Do not touch the cones. They are obstacles.
Wave your sign when it is your classmates turn.
Reflect
You know what you want to do. That is your goal. You find a way to do it. That is your path.
You choose to go and do not stop. That is willpower. You know you will do great things! That is hope!
Willpower
I have the power of hope to reach great goals.
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Goal
Pathways
Observe
Point to a body part. (pink)
Point to what cleans it. (purple)
Draw a line between the two.
Act - Life can be messy!
To learn why I keep myself clean
Comment
1. Oh no! Adam spilled juice on himself. Color juice on Adam’s face and neck.
2. Now what? Adam stepped in a muddy puddle. Color mud on Adam’s feet.
3. Goodness! Adam has grass and twigs in his hair. Draw little sticks in his hair.
4. Oh boy! Adam finger painted. Color paint on his fingers.
What a mess, what a mess!
But no fright, it’s alright, Can you guess, can you guess?
How can Adam clean up right?
Rub, rub, rub, scrub, scrub, scrub!
Wash the body, wash the hair, He feels better everywhere!
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Play - Cleaning Charades
Each child receives a word. Watch your classmates act it out.
Do what they do! Guess what it is! You act one out! What did you do?
Listen - Sing Sing to the tune of the Clean Up Song: Clean me! Clean me!
I can wash my skin and hair!
Brush my teeth, brush my hair, I feel better everywhere!
Reflect
How well do I clean myself? Circle one: :( :) :D
Not well A little bit Really well
How often do I clean myself? Circle one: :( :) :D
Not often Sometimes Every day
What can I do better?
Draw yourself.
Willpower
I can be clean. I want to be clean. I know how to keep myself clean.
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Goal Pathways
Understand
To learn why caring for others is important and how to do so.
When we are kind, we act out of love! Circle kind actions:
Why be kind?
When you are kind, you help others AND you help yourself.
1. It makes you feel good
2. It takes away your worry
3. It gives you a healthy heart
4. It helps you live longer
5. It defends you from sickness
6. It helps you be calm
Watch
Watch the reading of A Little Spot of Kindness by Diane Alber.
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Am Kind tO OtheRs
Comment
What was your favorite act of kindness?
Play - Duck, Duck, I need you!
Instead of saying ‘Goose’ when you tag a buddy, what did you say? I need you!
What did your buddy say? I will help you!
Create
Being kind is to love. Practice kindness. Color the paper heart. When someone helps you, give them this heart! Thank them for being kind!
Reflect
How are people kind to you?
How do you feel when people are kind to you?
How are you kind to people?
How do people feel when you are kind to them?
I choose to love. I will be kind.
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Willpower
Goal Pathways
Observe
Love NatuRe
To learn to enjoy the beauty of nature
Nature is outside. We can see it, we can hear it, we can smell it, we can taste it, we can touch it.
We can enjoy nature by being outside Circle places in nature you have been to before.
Comment
What is something they could see?
What is something they could smell?
What is something they could taste?
Watch
Watch the storytelling of We’re Going on a Nature Hunt by Steve Metzger.
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What is something they could hear?
What is something they could touch?
What was your favorite thing the kids found in nature?
Play - I Spy
I spy something green! Look at nature! What do you see?
I spy something blue! Look at nature! What do you see?
I spy something yellow! Look at nature! What do you see?
I spy something red! Look at nature! What do you see?
I spy something brown! Look at nature! What do you see?
I spy something white! Look at nature! What do you see?
What other colors do you see?
Create Make a picture!
Use bits of things from nature. Glue them to a paper plate.
What nature picture did you make?
Reflect
I enjoy nature with all my senses!
Being outside improves my life! I can choose to go outside more.
I will spend time enjoying nature.
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Willpower
Goal
YourS aNd Mine
To learn to take care of everything I use: things that are mine, yours, and everyone’s
Pathways
Observe
Some things everyone gets to use: the beaches, the parks, the roads, the air, and nature’s views
Some things some people get to use: the school’s toys, the library books, and the zoos
Some things only one person gets to use: a toothbrush, a classmate's backpack, and your own two shoes
Draw
Circle some things that belong to you:
Watch
Listen to the story Respect and Take Care of Things by Cheri Meiners.
Comment
How do you take care of the things you own?
How do you take care of things that you do not own?
Is there a difference?
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Act - Show what you would do
1. A buddy asks, “May I use that?”
What do you do?
2. You want to use something that is not yours. What do you do?
3. Someone says no when you ask them to use what is theirs. What do you do?
4. You want something at the store, but you do not have money. What do you do?
Create
You are given a crayon.
What color is it?
Is that color in a rainbow?
Color one band of the rainbow.
What other colors does your rainbow need?
Find a friend who has a crayon of a color you need.
Ask, “May I please use that crayon?”
If he or she asks for your color, you can give it to them! Continue until your rainbow is complete! Help your buddies until their rainbows are complete too!
Reflect
I take care of what is mine.
I take care of what is yours.
I ask to borrow what is yours.
I share with you what is mine!
Willpower
I take care of all things, and treat everything with respect.
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