MY WELLBEING JOURNEY – YEAR 4
ENJOYING MY BEST SELF to share my positive feelings and attitudes
With your family, friends, classmates and teacher, enjoy doing the lessons and activities on your journey to grow everyone’s wellbeing. When you all work together special things can be achieved.
Draw your family, friends and yourself enjoying your favourite place in the outdoors. What are their names?
Strengths Weeks
There are four strengths weeks throughout the year and they are placed on the bottom of the right hand page for that week. You and your classmates can draw or describe how you could use one of the strengths below to build your wellbeing and healthy friendships. The order of these weeks are: Being a Leader, Perseverance (Trying Hard), Zest and Love of Learning. Download these activity sheets and award certificates from the Wellbeing Program/Individual Resources/Strengths Weeks or Wellbeing Awards sections of www.learningcurve.com.au
“Your mind is the greatest power you have. Use it well.” Aneta Cruz
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Acknowledgement:
Sonja Lyubirmorsky & Tal Ben Shahar
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Being Resilient
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“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” Dr. Seuss This Lesson: WHY: for you to learn about the skills that you need to be resilient at school and at home. When you hear your family and teachers talking about you being resilient, they mean that you are able to respond well to problems or setbacks by bouncing back from them. There are seven skills that you have to practise using in how you think and what you say and do to become resilient. Describe or draw what you do or could do for each of these skills. What Does
Mean? When is a time I was proud of how I bounced back? ..................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................... Skill 1. Feeling positive about the future – when have I done this well? ..................................................................................................................................................... Skill 2. Controlling my own feelings – when have I done this well? ..................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................... Skill 3. No acting or speaking without thinking – when have I done this well? .....................................................................................................................................................
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you start to grow these skills in yourself, you will enjoy tackling harder challenges and see mistakes and fixing them as important things to accept and do to enjoy your best self.
“Failure is the only opportunity to begin again.” Henry Ford
Mean? Skill 4. Changing how I think for different situations – when have I done this well? ..................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................... Skill 5. Caring about others’ needs and feelings – when have I done this well? ..................................................................................................................................................... Skill 6. Believing in myself as a person who matters – when have I done this well? ..................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................... Skill 7. Wanting to connect and be with other people – when have I done this well? .....................................................................................................................................................
Getting Ready For School
WHY: by knowing how to organise your school bag every night, you will sleep well because you know that you are ready for school when you wake up.
HOW: pack your school books, fill your water bottle, make your lunch and have your uniform laid out for the morning. Being responsible for yourself by doing these things, will make you feel proud.
DO: what else do you have to do to get ready for school?
What feelings do you have when you know that you are organised for school?
Acknowledgement:
“You can organise yourself to feel proud of yourself.” MW
Fab First Five: Where is your favourite place to play with friends at school?
Smarter Ways to Think
Pausing & Noticing – when you are doing something, stop, pause, take notice and ask yourself, “am I rushing to do this too quickly and missing something?” When were you proud of how you paused and noticed what you were doing?
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When you try hard to do something challenging, you are filled with happy feelings. When were you proud of how you tried hard?
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Growing Your Brain
WHY: by learning that your brain grows when you practise something, you will be keener to practise.
HOW: practise doing something that you want to get better at, over and over to create patterns for your brain. These patterns enable your brain messages to travel more quickly and do the activity much faster when you keep practising.
DO: what is something that you would like to get better at by practising?
Acknowledgement: Pascual-Leone & Dweck
When is a time that you practised something and got better at it?
“Practising every day grows your brain.” MW
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Activity - word search
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Tuned In
WHY: by learning how to totally tune in to what you are doing, you will feel really good about yourself.
HOW: focus on an activity that you enjoy, which stretches your skills, concentrate hard using your strengths to block out other things, and you will feel really connected to the activity and yourself. You may lose your sense of time.
Acknowledgement: Nakamura, Kotler & Csikszentmihalyi
DO: what is an activity that you love doing which stretches your skills?
What is enjoyable about being totally tuned in?
“Tune into what you want to learn.” MW
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Feelings
WHY: by thinking about special and happy times that you have had in the past, you will feel those warm feelings again.
HOW: when having a great time with family and friends, draw pictures, take photos of the good things happening, and write a story about it. Then to make those feelings return, go back to look at these.
Acknowledgement: Bryant & Veroff
DO: what is a happy time that you had which fills you with warm feelings when you think about it ?
What is something that you are looking forward to that you can take photos of and write about?
“Think about good things to be happy.”
Fab First Five: When is a time that
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Smarter Ways to Think
Colour in how well you went this week.
Explaining Clearly – When you are about to explain something to others, think, are the words that I am using describing it well? When were you proud of how you explained something clearly?
Acknowledgement: Art Costa & Bena Kellick
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wellbeing@school Your health depends on the Big Three: daily exercise, drinking water and sleep. Which of these do you do well? Acknowledgement: ACARA 3-4 HPE ......................................................................... Maze – find your way through the maze!
My Feelings and Emotions
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for you to understand that it is normal for you to feel many different feelings and emotions, ranging from excited, to happy, to disappointed, to sad. The following are ones that you feel every day. Circle at least five that you feel often.
Acknowledgement:
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” Roy T Bennett
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Lesson: WHY:
3-4 RRRR, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne Draw yourself enjoying your favourite feeling.
Respectful Relationships Builders
This Lesson: WHY: for you to explore the different things which help you to enjoy healthy and respectful relationships with other people. The following four elements work together to help you to get on well with other people.
My Coping Ways:
One thing that I can do to help me to overcome hard challenges is...
My Worries Control:
One thing that I can do to calm myself when I am upset is...
My Problem Solving:
One problem that I could need to solve to enjoy respectful relationships is...
My Help Seeking:
One person who I can ask when I need help in having respectful relationships is...
Acknowledgement: 3-4 RRRR, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” Eleanor Roosevelt
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Me Asking for Help
This Lesson: WHY:
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resilient. Having problems is a normal part of life
everyone. The most important
is not to ignore them, and to ask for help from the right
their own.
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people, because problems won’t go away on
What is a problem that you could have solved on your own? What is a problem that your friends could help you to solve? What is problem that you would have to ask for help to solve? Who would you ask to help you solve each of the following problems? • You left your lunch at home Who: • You feel lonely Who: ................................................................................... • Your friends won’t play with you Who: • One of your friends is scared Who:
Knowing the Right Thing to Say
This Lesson: WHY: for you to understand what are the right ways to act in different places to keep safe, and then using your strengths to tell your friends that. Having the courage to speak up is called being assertive. Say what concerns you, how you feel and what you want to happen. Write what you would say to your friend for each of the following situations that could happen.
My friends want to swim outside the flags at the beach.
I don’t have my helmet and my friends want me to go for a ride.
My friends want to cross a busy road not at the traffic lights. My friends want to go to the shops without any of us asking our parents.
Acknowledgement: ACARA 3-4 HPE
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Abraham Lincoln
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