2021 Learning Curve Primary Years Planner

2021 PRIMARY LEARNING CURVE PLANNER BUILDING MY BEST SELF AS A YOUNG PERSON WHO MAT T ERS NAME....................................................................................................................... CLASS.................................................

When you are with other people, the best way to build your and their wellbeing is by smiling, being kind, listening actively, making eye contact and saying hello with your heart. Feel great positive emotions achieving things side by side with other people.

AS A YOUNG PERSON MAKE THE CHOICE TO: □ use I can and I will self-talk to overcome challenges. □ look forward to doing something positive every day.

What do you expect from yourself as a young person at school?

□ grow my brain’s abilities by practising harder things. □ do good to feel good and feel good to do good. □ be kind and forgiving to show I value other people. □ be grateful for good things that happen in my life. □ use my strengths to make a positive difference. □ not give into myself when things don’t go my way.

Acknowledgement: Sonja Lyubomirsky & Tal Ben Shahar

Strengths for Relationships Weeks Every five weeks, the challenge for you and your class is to use the named character strength to create fun and meaningful activities to build the wellbeing of everyone’s relationships. Also share this activity with your family to do at home. There are also Wellbeing Award Certificates for each of these weeks on the website.

The order of these weeks are: Gratitude, Teamwork, Curiosity, Kindness, Leadership, Hope, Zest, Perseverance, Love of Learning and Forgiveness.

Download these activity sheets and award certificates from the Wellbeing Program/ Individual Resources/Strengths for Relationships Weeks or Wellbeing Awards sections of www.learningcurve.com.au

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no quote one thinks of changing themselves.” Leo Tolstoy

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PERMAH+ Your Pathway to a Healthy State of Wellbeing Lesson 2: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to learn about the PERMAH+ model to describe your wellbeing. Wellbeing Reflection: what are the things which make up your wellbeing?

Your wellbeing is a combination of the six equally important PERMAH+ elements which are described below. You can grow you wellbeing by doing the weekly lessons for each of them. No element on its own can describe how healthy you wellbeing is.

To become your best self, reflect on how and what you are doing to develop each of the PERMAH+ elements.

POSITIVE EMOTION + GRATITUDE – being grateful for happy feelings and handling negatives through self-talk What could you do to create happy feelings in yourself?

What is a little thing you have which your are really grateful for?

ENGAGEMENT + MINDFULNESS – being connected to yourself by pausing and taking notice of what is happening.

What activities do you love doing which excite you?

When do you notice your own thoughts coming and going?

RELATIONSHIPS + EMPATHY – being caring for others’ and your own needs and feelings to build healthy relationships.

What things make up having healthy and respectful relationships?

How do you show that you care for others’ needs and feelings?

MEANING + PURPOSE – being focused on your own purpose which is larger than yourself and gives you meaning.

What is something meaningful and larger than you?

What is your purpose for doing what you do with effort?

ACCOMPLISHMENT + OPTIMISM – being focused to positively influence your own future through your own efforts.

What is a goal that you are really determined to achieve?

What do you need to do to feel hopeful for the future?

HEALTH + STRENGTHS – being healthy by using your strengths to exercise daily, be positive, sleep well and eat healthy foods.

What are three strengths that you need to use to be healthy?

What do you do to exercise, sleep, think and eat well?

Acknowledgement: P – Lyubomirsky, King & Diener, E – Hunter & Csikszentmihalyi, R – Norrish, Robinson & Williams, M – Cotton, Bronk & Damon, A – Hendren, Sheldon, H – Norrish, Robinson & Williams

“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” Plato

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Are You Building Your Best Self?

Lesson 3: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to plan how you will build the person you wish to become. Wellbeing Reflection: what things do you have to learn about and start doing more often to build that person?

Never say you can’t do something.

Instead say I can’t do it YET. What is a challenge that you are trying hard to overcome, and what do you need to learn to do so?

Describe what type of person your best self acts like, looks like and sounds like. Read this often. ...................................................................................................

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Write yourself a short letter on what you want to achieve and become in 2021.

TIP: look at Positive Personal Descriptors (refer index) to select five that you want to show for your best possible self.

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TIP: Read this often to spur yourself on.

Describe an achievement that you are very proud of, the strengths you used and the positive emotions you felt. ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................

Describe the qualities and strengths you like in yourself, your friends and in other people.

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TIP: Often, qualities and strengths you like in other people are those you like in yourself. The opposite is also true.

TIP: Read this often to relive and savour the uplifting positive feelings you experienced.

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Acknowledgement: Sonja Lyubomirsky

“A person without imagination has no wings.” Muhammad Ali

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RELAT IONSHIPS + EMPATHY What Are You Like?

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Wellbeing Learning Intention: by thinking about how you would like other people to think of you when they meet you, you will be able to practise being that type of person. Your body language is the key to getting you best self across, so practise smiling, saying hello, listening in an interested way, standing up straight and showing that you care for and value them.

Then, most other people will respond the same way.

Acknowledgement: Diener & Biswas-Diener

Wellbeing Reflection – What are three positive personal descriptors (see page 131) that you would like others to think of when they meet you? ............................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................

Empathy Feeling – What types of body language send negative messages to others about you? ............................................................................................................... ...............................................................................................................

Mindful Maze

Mindfulness Time Character Imaginations. If you had a choice of any character you could be in a book, movie or TV show, who would you be and describe why.

What went well this week?

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How could using the resilience skill, selfbelief, help you to do this? (see p.123)

FEBRUARY 2021 WEEK:__________

12 FRIDAY

11 THURSDAY

10 WEDNESDAY

9 TUESDAY

8 MONDAY

THINGS TO DO

13 SATURDAY 14 SUNDAY COMMUNICATION/COMMENTS:

TEACHER:

WELLBEING T IP.

Aim to make someone’s day every day by saying something encouraging to them.

PARENT/GUARDIAN:

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MEANING + PURPOSE Give to Live

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Wellbeing Learning Intention: by learning that when you give of yourself to make others’ lives better, that you are adding meaning to your own life, you will be more aware of opportunities to do so. The best way to build you own wellbeing is by doing kind things to develop others’ wellbeing.

Human beings are hard wired to thrive when working and sharing together, so it makes sense for you to enjoy the company of other people.

Acknowledgement: Frankl & Nakanishi

Wellbeing Reflection – When are times you have given of yourself to make others’ lives better and how did you feel? ............................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................

Purpose Feeling – What are five little things that you could do every day to give more of yourself? ............................................................................................................... ...............................................................................................................

Mindful Colouring In

Habits of Mind Thinking Flexibly – changing the way you think for different situations and when you receive new information.

Converting negative mind chatter to positive thinking. When have you been flexible in your thinking? Who has impressed you by adapting their thinking?

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CHARACT ER STRENGTH Use SENSE OF MEANING to do SELF-IMAGE on page 138.

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How could using the resilience skill, connecting with others, help you to do this? (see p.123)

MARCH / APRIL 2021 WEEK:__________

2 FRIDAY

1 THURSDAY

31 WEDNESDAY

30 TUESDAY

29 MONDAY

THINGS TO DO

3 SATURDAY 4 SUNDAY COMMUNICATION/COMMENTS:

TEACHER:

WELLBEING T IP

When travelling, stretch your arm and leg muscles every ten minutes.

PARENT/GUARDIAN:

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ACCOMPLISHMENT + OPT IMISM Organising Your Time

Books read this week Title

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Wellbeing Learning Intention: by spending time planning you will be able to do what you need to do. Create a learning timetable for yourself. Include on it time for exercise, social time with friends, afterschool activities and time for home learning. When you do this, you will actually be taking responsibility for your schooling and creating more time for yourself to do what you love to do (see page 153).

Acknowledgement: Sheldon & Adams Miller

Wellbeing Reflection – When are times you have planned what you needed to do and what happened? ............................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................

Optimism Feeling – How do you think that by creating a learning timetable, you could feel more in control of your future? ............................................................................................................... ...............................................................................................................

How could using the resilience skill, flexible thinking, help you to do this? (see p.123)

KINDNESS Week

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This week enjoy making a positive difference to other peoples’ lives, by creating activities using the character strength KINDNESS, to grow relationships with your family, friends and school community.

(Kindness for Strengths Week worksheet and Kindness Wellbeing Award are in Individual Resources of www.learningcurve.com.au)

CHARACT ER STRENGTH Use KINDNESS to do HERO STRENGTHS on page 136.

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MAY 2021 WEEK:__________

21 FRIDAY

20 THURSDAY

19 WEDNESDAY

18 TUESDAY

17 MONDAY

THINGS TO DO

22 SATURDAY 23 SUNDAY COMMUNICATION/COMMENTS:

TEACHER:

WELLBEING T IP

Try fresh fruit and vegetables at every meal; a healthy boost.

PARENT/GUARDIAN:

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M.A.R.B.L.E.S.: your best self as a young person This Lesson: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to focus on doing what the MARBLES mean to become your best self. Wellbeing Reflection: which of the MARBLES are you using well and which do you need to work on?

To develop healthy wellbeing habits in yourself, you need to build strong brain pathways by deliberately practising the behaviours for each of the letters in M.A.R.B.L.E.S. which stand for: M for Manners

A for R for BL for E for S for Attitude Respect Body Language Effort Smile

Do I reflect on the letters M.A.R.B.L.E.S. regularly?

When is a time that I did each of the M.A.R.B.L.E.S. well?

M for Manners Treating others, the way you like to be treated with courtesy and respect.

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A for Attitude Having can do, want to and growth mindsets.

Usually

Sometimes

Not Yet

R for Respect Believing and showing that you and other people matter.

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Sometimes

Not Yet

BL for Body Language Being mindful to be assertive but not aggressive; confident but not arrogant; focused intently, but not consumed.

Usually

Sometimes

Not Yet

E for Effort Focusing your energies to welcome and overcome challenges and setbacks using your strengths.

Sometimes

Not Yet

S for Smile Saying hello to the world every day with a happy smiling face to spread positive emotions.

Usually

Sometimes

Not Yet Acknowledgement: Amy Brown

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Gandhi

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Body Language: your best self as a young person This Lesson: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to understand what body language messages you are sending to others and receiving from them. Wellbeing Reflection: what messages does your best self want to send to other people and what body language will you use?

Most of the communication you have in person with other people is not through words, but through your facial expressions and how you move and hold your body.

Because so much communication today is done through texting and social media, many people are forgetting how to send and read body language.

Have fun role playing the body language below and make up some of your own at the bottom of the table.

Body Language

Messages being sent

Shrugging your shoulders Making eye contact Talking with your arms folded Smiling while listening Yawning when listening to someone Arms and hands open when talking Leaning back on your chair Listening enthusiastically Sighing when talking to someone Respecting personal space Looking at your phone while listening Nodding while listening

Acknowledgement: Gable, Fredrickson & Diener

“Most of the shadows in this life are caused by us standing in our own sunshine.� Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Positive Self-Talk This Lesson: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to learn how to use I can and I will positive self-talk to help you overcome challenges. Wellbeing Reflection: when are times that you could use positive self-talk to encourage yourself?

Effort – I can and I will: ■ s tay focused on lifting my efforts till I achieve what I set out to do; never giving up, never, never, never ■ prepare well to give myself positive opportunities to strive, thrive and flourish ■p ut my head down at home to make myself do my homework ■a sk for help when I don’t understand something ■a ccept and see mistakes and setbacks as positive things to learn from ■c ommunicate clearly to explain myself ■b e flexible in my thinking on how I will approach challenges ■n ot accept “just good enough” efforts from myself.

Initiative – I can and I will: ■ try new approaches when my usual ones don’t work; think creatively ■ apply what I have learned to new situations ■ organise my time by designing a Personal Timetable to make it difficult for me to do the things which distract me ■ aim to do several acts of kindness for others every week ■ write down three good things that happened and I’m happy about every night ■ look for what is right in what I look at ■ use confident language when in difficult situations ■ create ten different ways to ask for help at school, at home and in the community.

Courage – I can and I will: ■ say sorry and make things right when I do the wrong thing by someone else ■ come to school even when I don’t feel like it ■ stand up to my friends and lead when they want to do the wrong thing ■ include other students who get left out of the group ■ believe in the person I see in the mirror every morning; compare myself with me, no one else ■ not hold a grudge when someone does the wrong thing to me and forgive them ■ own up when I have done the wrong thing and accept the consequences ■ smile and be positive when I’m under pressure and nervous.

Self-regulation – I can and I will: ■ manage my impulsivity ■ be in charge of my feelings and my nerves ■ listen to others with my eyes, my ears and my heart ■ say hello to the world every morning with a smiling face ■ be aware to send positive messages through my body language I can ■ keep my cool when I realise I am becoming and angry I will ■ only say positive things about others and not spread rumours ■ use my strengths to stay safe.

Acknowledgement: Ryan & Deci

“There is no shortcut to any place worth going.” Beverley Sill

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Positive Self-talk is a great coping strategy which spurs you on to overcome challenges and setbacks you have.

Self-Talk In Action This Lesson: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to bring positive self-talk alive by planning what you would say for the scenarios which follow. Wellbeing Reflection: what emotions did you feel and what strengths did you use in creating your I can and I will self-talk?

To feel confident in yourself to use self-talk when you feel you need to, an effective strategy is to practise creating it and rehearsing it. For the possible scenarios that follow, create I can and I will self-talk. Make up some of your own.

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS

I Can And I Will Self-Talk and Helpful Strengths

1. I am struggling to finish a project which I have to hand in at the end of the week.

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2. My friends keep asking me to join in doing risky things where we all could get hurt.

3. I have been a little slack with my exercise lately and need to start exercising again every day.

4. I am spending way too much time on my phone and social media and want to reduce it.

5. There is something that I love doing but have not had the courage to make myself do it.

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Acknowledgement: Ryan & Deci

“Self-trust is the first secret to success.� Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Maths Rules This Lesson: The Wellbeing Learning Intention is for you to improve how you understand the different maths rules. Wellbeing Reflection: which of these maths rules are you unsure of?

ORDER OF OPERATION follows this rule:– B Brackets

Exponents

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Addition

Subtraction

■ If there are both multiplications and divisions, work from left to right.

■ If there are both additions and subtractions, work from left to right.

SYMBOLS

ANGLES

Equality and Inequality Signs

■ Acute Angles

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0º to 90º

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■ Right Angles

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90º

..... is less than

■ Obtuse Angles .....

90º to 180º

..... is greater than

■ Straight Angles .....

180º

..... is less than or equal to

■ Reflex Angles

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180º to 360º

..... is greater than or equal to

■ Revolution

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360º

..... is not less than

..... is not greater than

..... the sum of

..... percentage

..... angle

..... is parallel to

..... is perpendicular to

..... right angle

..... the co-ordinates of a point

..... to the power n

..... square root

POLYGONS

THE CIRCLE r ■T he Perimeter of a circle is called the circumference, C ■C=

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■ The Area, A, of a circle is A =

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■ There are 360 degrees in a circle and 180 degrees in a semi-circle.

■ Pentagon .....

5 sides

PERIMETER

■ Hexagon .....

6 sides

■ Heptagon .....

7 sides

The distance around the outside of a figure.

■ Octagon .....

8 sides

■ Nonagon .....

9 sides

■ Decagon .....

10 sides

■ The number of degrees in a polygon is given by (2n–4) x 90º where n is the number of sides.

FACTORS Numbers that multiply together to give a certain number. ex. 24 = 24 x 1 = 12 x 2 = 8 x 3 = 6 x 4 Factors are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24.

“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso

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Maths Rules MULTIPLES

AREA

Numbers produced when a certain number is multiplied by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 e.g. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 are multiples of 3.

Units2 or square units.

PRIME NUMBERS

A = ½ bh units2

TRIANGLES

Numbers that only have themselves and one as factors. e.g. The factors of 23 are only 1 and 23, that is, 23 = 23 x 1

TYPES OF TRIANGLES

SQUARES A = S units2 2

Scalene 3 sides different 3 angles different

Irregular 4 sides 4 angles

Equilateral 3 sides equal 3 angles equal

Kite 2 pairs of sides 1 pair of angles

Right-angled has a 90° angle

Rectangle 4 right angles 2 pairs of sides equal

STATISTICAL GRAPHS

Rhombus 4 sides equal 2 pairs of sides equal

The main two types of graphs used to show statistical results are: Pie Chart Sector Graph

Bar Graphs Column or Histograms Number of Students 20

Wool 30%

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Parallelogram Opposite side equal and parallel 2 pairs of angles equal Square 4 right angles 4 sides equal

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Wheat 40%

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4 sides and angles add to 360º

Isosceles 2 sides equal 2 angles equal

Sunflowers 20%

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3 sides and angles to 180º

Other 10%

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RECTANGLES A = lw units2

The first 20 Prime Numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71.

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Trapezium 1 pair of sides parallel

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein

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