Week of :
November 12 – 16, 2012
Theme: Social Skills
Date News Greeting Sharing Activity
|
Mon
11/12
EF
|
HAPPY MONDAY, Stingrays!
This week we will build on
our learning about HAPPINESS by building better social skills. But first… EF!!
|
Snake Greeting
|
n/a
|
Planner Development
And
Goal Review
|
|
Tuesday
a.m.
11/13
Share
|
Ohaiyo, (Llamas!) (your
name)
Today we start talking
about social skills. Initial below to indicate how important you think social skills are to your success in
life.
NOT SOMETIMES VERY
|
Choice of Voice Greeting
|
Today’s Skill: Cooperation
Partner Share:
Tell about a time in your
life when teamwork was important. What
happened? What did you learn?
|
n/a
|
|
Tuesday
p.m.
Activity
|
same
|
Partner Greeting
|
n/a
|
Helium Hoop
|
|
Wed
11/14
Activity
|
Hello Friends!
A HUGELY important social
skill is EMPATHY. Grab a marker & write here what you
think it means !
|
Ball
Toss
|
n/a
|
One Minute Talk
|
|
Thursday
11/15
Journal
|
Salutations, Strong
People,
Today’s social skill is
ASSERTION. Start thinking about how
easy or hard it is for you to stand up for yourself or others.
|
Reach Out Greeting
|
n/a
|
Journal Topic:
Here’s the scenario: Someone has a crush on you but you don’t
feel the same. How do you assert your
feelings here? Write about the right ways
and wrong ways to go about this common issue.
|
|
Friday
11/16
Activity
|
Greetings!
Today’s skill is
SELF-CONTROL. An important American
educator, John Dewey said self-control was key to success. We have to teach ourselves to control our
impulses (to break rules, to talk when listening is required…) Let’s practice
with a game!
|
Snake Greeting
|
n/a
|
Radio
|
Advisors: Get a stamp for planners!! Coming up:
a prize for students with planner perfection.
Instructions
News: HAPPY
MONDAY, Stingrays! This week we will
build on our learning about HAPPINESS by building better social skills. But
first… EF!!
Greeting: Snake Greeting – A
student stands up, greets a neighbor, gets greeted in return, moves on to greet
the next person, and so on. As the
leader moves on, the student she greeted stands and follows her, greeting the
same people she greeted, n the same order.
A constantly growing “snake” of students forms behind her. Once the leader has greeted everyone, she
sits – she’s the first to return to her seat – and others follow in order,
shrinking the size of the snake, until everyone has sat down.
Share: n/a
Activity: Planner Review
(students write in the week’s expected activities) and Goal Review. If desired, advisors can open a discussion
for sharing by students regarding the progress of their second quarter’s goals.
Tuesday, November
13– a.m.
News: Ohaiyo, (Llamas!) (insert your advisory’s
mascot) Today we start talking about
social skills. Initial below to indicate how
important you think social skills are to your success in life.
Greeting: Choice of Voice – Students greet the group
and ask to be greeted by a special type of voice (opera, deep, gleeful,
etc…). Group responds in unison: “Good
Morning, _________” (in style requested).
Depending on the time available, advisors can limit greetings to one
advisee or more.
Share:
·
Explain to advisees that one key social skill in
life is COOPERATION.
·
Ask
advisees to partner up with someone they never have and discuss a time when
they learned something important about team work.
·
Remind advisees that we often learn the most
from our failures, so it can be an example when they didn’t do so well, or an
example where team work excelled.
·
What was learned? Caveat: answer has to be deeper than, “Teamwork is
important.”
Activity: n/a
Tuesday, November
13– p.m.
News: same
Greeting: Partner Greeting – Any greeting done in
pairs, simultaneously, rather than around the circle in the usual style – great
when time is short or risk level needs to be lowered. High five; Peace sign, greeting with sharing
favorite song or movie right now….
Share: n/a
Activity: Helium Hoop – [Materials: a hula hoop for
each group of 5-8 players] Groups of 5-8
students gather around a hula hoop (or lightweight stick) Each student places
both index fingers under the hoop’s edge held at waist level and parallel to
the ground. They work together to lower
the hoop to the floor while keeping all fingers on the hoop or stick. Then, members try to lift the hoop back up. The results are “uplifting!”
Idea – take it outside to the
courtyard. Have teams lift and fall
simultaneously. Practice then a contest.
Wednesday, November 14
News: Hello Friends! A HUGELY important social skill is EMPATHY. Grab a marker & write here what you think
it means !
[Note to
Advisors: EMPATHY means tuning in to the
feelings &/or experiences of another by listening and watching body
language. This might be an experience
the listener has had or not. EMPATHY is
a higher level skill than SYMPATHY, which is tuning in to someone’s feelings
who is having an experience you have also had; e.g., your cat died and I had a
cat who died.]
Greeting: Ball Toss Greeting – a soft, indoor ball or
equivalent (bean bag, stuffed animal, etc…) is tossed by a selected student,
who greets another student and then tosses that student the ball (safely,
on-target and underhanded toss). The
recipient tosses the object to another student and greets that student. Play continues until everyone has been
greeted (including the advisor).
Share: n/a
Activity: One-Minute Talk – Volunteers pick a card from
the Chat Pack and answer a question by sharing for up to one minute.
The key to
this activity is the debriefing after.
What kinds of body language did students pick up from the brave
volunteers? How did that body language
inform them?
We have
cells in our brains called mirror neurons that help us to feel
what others are feeling. It’s mirror
neurons that cause us to yawn when someone else yawns, or to feel the emotion
that another person is demonstrating.
Thursday, November
15
News: Salutations, Strong People! Today’s
social skill is ASSERTION. Start
thinking about how easy or hard it is for you to stand up for yourself or
others.
Greeting: Reach Out Greeting – Students simultaneously greet one another, using this greeting
as an opportunity to expand their social world a bit. Leader chooses the degree to which the
greeter “reaches out,” for example:
Greet someone you haven’t talked to yet
today.
Greet someone of the opposite
gender.
Greet someone you haven’t greeted in
several days.
Greet a person with whom you share
the least classes, or no classes.
Share: n/a
Activity: Journal Topic: Someone has a crush on you but you don’t feel
the same way. To make matters worse, all
of your friends are teasing you about it. What’s an assertive but kind way to handle
this situation with the person who’s crushing?
With your friends?
Note to Advisors:
this is a good time to talk about the spectrum of responses from
aggressive to assertive to passive.
AGGRESSIVE ASSERTIVE PASSIVE
This
form of action This form of action This form of action
expresses
a thought, expresses a thought. expresses
a thought,
feeling
or need in a way feeling or need in a feeling or need in a
that violates the well-being way that is ok for way that doesn’t
of
the other person. both people honor
your needs. Mostly
this is when you
DON’T SPEAK UP.
WIN – LOSE WIN
– WIN LOSE – WIN
Friday, November 16
News: Greetings! Today’s skill is SELF-CONTROL. An important American educator, John Dewey
said self-control was key to success. We
have to teach ourselves to control our impulses (to break rules, to talk when
listening is required…) Let’s practice with a game!
Greeting: Snake Greeting – A
student stands up, greets a neighbor, gets greeted in return, moves on to greet
the next person, and so on. As the
leader moves on, the student she greeted stands and follows her, greeting the
same people she greeted, n the same order.
A constantly growing “snake” of students forms behind her. Once the leader has greeted everyone, she
sits – she’s the first to return to her seat – and others follow in order,
shrinking the size of the snake, until everyone has sat down.
Activity: Ra-di-o :
Students sit in a circle, with plenty of room on the outside to be used
later, Leader teaches students a hand
gesture that will accompany each of the three syllables in the word “radio.”
Ra = one
hand atop head, pointing left or right
di = one
hand under chin, pointing left or right
o= pointing
at any other student in the circle
A student is selected to begin. She says “Ra” and puts one hand on her head,
pointing either left or right. The
student at her side where she points at must quickly say “di,” putting a hand
under his chin, and pointing either to his left or right. The student points to someone else to his
left or right in the circle while saying, “o.”
The student starts a new round by saying, “Ra.” If a student points
incorrectly or takes too much time, she becomes “radio static” in the outer
circle. These students try to distract
the group with conversation, weird noises, etc…. As their numbers grow, their power should
make it increasingly difficult for those remaining to concentrate. Establish what appropriate “static” looks
like, sounds like, and feels like before beginning.
No comments:
Post a Comment