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My community |
Communication |
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List words that support and encourage, and compare with a list of words that can hurt. Compare how you feel when the different lists are spoken. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Create and tell a story to other children or younger children. |
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My community |
Resolving conflict |
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Learn conflict resolution skills: mediating a conflict between two friends by listening to both sides and helping them to listen to each other and find a solution. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Practice narrating events that happened during the day during "harvest" sessions; giving opportnities to everyone (including quieter children) to express themselves. |
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My community |
Playing together and sharing |
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Practice sharing or serving each other fruit or other healthy food. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Recognise how another person is feeling; practice by looking at a video or pictures and discussing the signs that tell us about the person's emotions. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Notice and express how we are feeling (a check in). |
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My community |
Communication |
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Notice how our voices can sound angry, happy or sad. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Observe and discuss - what are our faces telling us about our feelings? Looking at each child and then discussing what feelings they are showing us with their body or face. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Experience a talking circle using a special object (flower, stick, shell) to remember whose turn it is to talk, and who should be listening, remember two ears, one mouth - listen more than talk! |
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My community |
Communication |
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Play a whisper game (say a word and pass it around the circle, see if it is the same word when it returns). |
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My community |
Communication |
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Learn how to take care of another child that is crying, sad or hurt (get a teacher, say kind words, give a hug). |
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My community |
Communication |
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Listen to a situtation that a doll experienced that is similar to a real situation - and then discuss what the doll felt and why and what they can do next. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Tell a story about why a person in a picture is feeling surprised, scared, happy etc. |
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My community |
Families, neighbours and friends |
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Help or give thanks to a neighbour (through a handmade card etc.). |
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My community |
Communication |
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Identify emotions on flashcards or pictures of people displaying different emotions. |
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My community |
Playing together and sharing |
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Listen to stories about the joy of sharing. |
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My community |
Playing together and sharing |
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Discuss the permaculture ethic of 'Fair Share'. |
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My community |
Playing together and sharing |
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Give thanks when someone shares something with you. |
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My community |
Families, neighbours and friends |
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Discuss ways to help neighbours and be a good neighbour/friend. |