Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week

Advisory Plans

By David, Carter, Kiran, and Adam

Tuesday 21, A.M.:

1.      You will have a bag numbered 1-9 containing random items in it. (We will distribute evenly, non bias). That morning, your kids in the advisory will have to create a skit (approximately 2 minutes long, with a 1 minute minimum and a 3 minute maximum) that represents the message of say NO to drugs. They will practice that skit in the morning.

2.      Rules:

a.       They may ONLY use the items in the bags as props, nothing else other than themselves.

b.      Everyone must be involved in the skit.

c.       The skit will be judged on how well the message of say NO to drugs was sent and the creativity used, how they used the props, and how the group followed steps 1 and 2.

d.      I encourage you (advisors) to help them with the skit and even play a small role in it (if you want to), it could add style to their skit.

3.      The skits will be performed in that afternoon in the gym.

4.      The grades will compete against each other for house points (10 probably).

5.      Make sure your advisory is ready.

Tuesday 21, P.M.:

1.      All the advisors please take your advisory to the gym and be ready to perform the skit.

2.      The 6^th grade advisory’s will perform first (*subject to change).

a.       There will be mystery judges judging the skits. Whichever Advisory wins the skit, their house will get points for their house.

3.      The 7^th grade will perform their skits (*orders subject to change)

a.       Judges will pick who won with best skit, they will get points.

4.      The 8^th grade will follow the 7^th and 6^th grades having the same procedure as them.

5.      DISMISSAL

Wednesday 22, A.M.:

Have your students watch this video about natural highs and not taking drugs. VERY IMPORTANT: ONLY PLAY THE VIDEO TILL 4:14. DO NOT GO PAST THAT POINT!

1.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1egg0ptTA

a.       VERY IMPORTANT: ONLY PLAY THE VIDEO TILL 4:14. DO NOT GO PAST THAT POINT!

2.      Ask your students what they thought of the video and discuss it with them.

3.      You could ask them what their favorite part of it was and why.

4.      You should have them answer some of the questions closer to the end of the video.

5.      Ask them how did the video say to be drug free and did they think the video was good (did it want them to not to drugs, did it influence them).

Thursday 23, A.M.:

1.      You will be supplied the word searches and the chart.

2.      Your students will have to find all (the number will be specified on the actual word search).

3.      It is kind of like a race, have the students split up into teams of 1 or 2 (if you have to them there can be a team of three) and try to find all the words and put them into the correct columns the fastest.

4.      They can check with you because you will have an answer key.

5.      It is an advisory friendly race that is trying to see if the kids know what is good or bad.

Thursday 23, P.M.:

1.      Please take your advisory to the gym and get in groups of your houses.

2.      We will announce in the gym the tomorrow is crazy sock day and the Advisory from each grade with the person who has the craziest socks gains house points. So wear CRAZY SOCKS tomorrow.

3.      There will be a white board set up and your house will get a marker. You will have around 20 minutes (*time subject to change, it matters how fast you get to the gym).

4.      We will shout go and the kids will go looking for red ribbons throughout the school. Each ribbon has a drug fact on it.

5.      Once they find one, they will run back to the gym and write their fact on the board (their section of it). Please use a numbered list.

6.      When time is called, the house with the most facts will win house points.

7.      The clues will not be hidden past the high school gate by the band room. If you are looking in places like the library PLEASE WALK.

8.      There will be no clues that are hidden in classrooms.

9.      Please be respectful to other people throughout the campus.

Friday 24, A.M.:

1.      Today is CRAZY SOCK DAY!!!

2.      Adam and Kiran will come around to each or your advisory’s and take pictures of the craziest sock’s in your advisory (you can have more than 1 person, the more people you have the better chance of winning you have).

3.      They will bring the pictures to me and I will pick (no bias) 1 pair of the craziest socks from each grade, and that advisory’s house will get points (probably 5, *subject to change).

4.      I will walk around to each advisory and tell the winners, and I will tell them (you could also tell them) that Tuesday is SPORTS DAY!!! That they should wear sports clothes (like sports jerseys or team supporting shirts) for the day. We can remind them at Next Monday morning meeting, but can you please put it in their planners and on their calendar.

Tuesday 28, A.M.:

1.      Ask your advisory if they know why they are wearing sports jerseys to support NO drugs and red ribbon week.

2.      See what answers they give you and try to piggyback off of them and continue the conversation.

3.      The main point that I think is important is that sports give you natural highs, so drugs are useless to you. You can tell them that. Also,  you can tell them that if they EVER (Emphasis) want to succeed in life, that they should never do drugs.

4.      Tell them that later in the afternoon that they will be watching a video on natural highs and professional sports players and why drugs will get you nowhere.

Tuesday 28, P.M.:

1.      Tell them that the NO drug natural high video is about Tim Howard.

2.      If they don’t know who he is, tell them that he is a professional soccer player in the English Premier league (one of the top soccer leagues in the world). He is also the United States of America’s world team goalie. So he is the best goalie from America. He is also one of the best goalies in the world.

3.      Show them the video from this link:

4.       http://naturalhigh.org/video/tim-howard-us-mens-national-team-goalkeeper/

5.      Ask them what they though of the video.

6.      Ask them what dives them to do good things. Tim Howard said he wanted to win another medal or trophy, that’s what drove him. Ask them what drives them in school, sports, and making good decisions in life.

Wednesday 29, A.M.:

1.      You will be supplied with crossword puzzles with drug related questions on them.

2.      Have your students get into pairs of 2 (again, this time make them get with a person they don’t usually work with), 1 pair of three is fine if necessary.

3.      Have your students fill out and answer the questions on the crossword puzzle and have them try to find the secret phrase.

4.      It is another inter-Advisory friendly competition.

5.      If the group says their done, check if the crossword is fully filled in, and the phrase is right (you will have an answer key).

6.      You may help them if they really need it or if you would like.

7.      First group done wins

8.      They win bragging rights.

Thursday 30, A.M.:

1.      You will practice for the game later.

2.      The blanket game.

3.      This practice time is so later when you have the actual competition you know the rules and you are better at it so you can gain points for your house.

4.      You will be supplied with the blanket/cloth.

5.      You’ll need two people to hold up a blanket as if it were a curtain. Separate the group of players in half and place the groups on opposite sides of the blanket. Each group picks 1 person from their team (very quietly so the other team doesn’t hear) and that person goes and stands right behind the blanket (make sure that the players standing at the blanket cannot see each other). Choose one player from each team to get ready for the blanket to drop. The two people holding the blanket drop it and the two players shout out the other players name from the opposite team that was standing behind the blanket. The first person to yell the name correctly gets one point. First team with (any number you decide) wins. Friendly competition.

Thursday 30, P.M.:

1.      Your house students will spilt up into teams of two, teachers can make the teams (make sure to have at least 1, 6^th 1, 7^th and 1, 8^th grader on each team.

2.      You will be supplied with a large non-see through blanket or cloth.

3.      The team will get on the other side of the cloth.

4.      Each team will send 1 person (without the other team knowing) to right next to the cloth.

5.      There will be 2 people holding the cloth up.

6.      The other team will do the same.

7.      On 3, the people holding the cloth will drop it, and the person from each team has to say the name of the other teams person before the other person says their name.

8.      SIMPLIER RULES: You’ll need two people to hold up a blanket as if it were a curtain. Separate the group of players in half and place the groups on opposite sides of the blanket. Each group picks 1 person from their team (very quietly so the other team doesn’t hear) and that person goes and stands right behind the blanket (make sure that the players standing at the blanket cannot see each other). Choose one player from each team to get ready for the blanket to drop. The two people holding the blanket drop it and the two players shout out the other players name from the opposite team that was standing behind the blanket. The first person to yell the name correctly gets one point. First team with (any number of points the house decides) wins. Do not tell them the game or the rules they will be playing until the blanket is up and the teams are separated.

9.      Leave around 7 minutes left to talk about this.

10.  Ask the students why you think this game is producing the slogan NO drugs.

11.  See what their answers are and piggyback off of them.

12.  I think that this game packs excitement and gives you a rush of adrenaline. These are the feelings you have when playing sports, etc. If you ever do drugs, you will never experience this feeling again.

13.  So it is persuading them to not do drugs so they can feel excitement and live their life the right way. But that is just 1 idea.

14.  Tell the houses that tomorrow is RED OUT and that they should wear and red shirt and anything else red.

Friday 31, A.M.:

1.      Have your advisors have a discussion with you about why the students think Red Ribbon Week is celebrated.

2.      Try to encourage them to give thoughtful answers.

3.      Ask them how THEY could be an influence to saying NO to drugs.

4.      Ask them how they think Red Ribbon Week influences younger kids, and tell them that the younger kids look up to them and whatever your students do, the elementary students think is cool, so they will do it to (when they have the chance). Tell them that they are the leaders for this past Red Ribbon Week and leaders for the upcoming Weeks.

5.      You can bring up any point you want to, to discuss with them.

6.      Finish any flag decorating or anything else you are missing from other weeks of advisory