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OPEN HEART - OPEN MIND TEACHING/PARENTING TIPS  Self-worth, self-esteem and respect are all issues that children and youth struggle with daily. Here are some activities that you can do with your class and/or your child to help him or her develop a positive sense of self-worth and self-esteem and learn and practice respect.  PUT-UP BINGOSTUDENT TIME LINEPUT-UP BINGO Grades: 1-5 Themes: Feelings, Respect, Put-ups Materials: Bingo sheets (one per student); bingo pieces or crayons; prizes; hat or bowl Time: 1 hour Activity: 1. Define a ‘put-up’ for students as a saying or a behavior that makes others feel happy. 2. Brainstorm various put-ups and record on a web (i.e.: "You are a good listener." "Do you want to play with me?" "You’re cool!" "Excuse me." "I like your shoes." "Please." "Would you like to borrow my pencil?" a thumbs up sign, a smile, etc.) 3. Discuss the importance of put-ups, how they make people feel, and ways to use them in the classroom. 4. Say: "Today we are going to play a fun game that has to do with put-ups." 5. Ask students if they have ever played Bingo. Choose a student to explain the rules of the game. 6. Explain that today’s game is very much like the Bingo that they have played before, but this time various put-ups will be called out instead of numbers. 7. Pass a Bingo sheet to each student. 8. Instruct students to write a different put-up in each of the boxes on the Bingo sheet, except for the middle box. Tell students that they should mix up the order of the put-ups. Demonstrate if necessary. 9. Explain to students that they need to have TWO lines in any direction to get Bingo. Show an example on the board or ask a student to demonstrate what it would look like. 10. Distribute Bingo pieces and/or crayons to students. 11. Explain that a put-up will be drawn out of a hat/bowl. If that put-up is on their sheet, they cover the square with a Bingo piece or shade in the square with a crayon. If they do not have that put-up on their sheet, they should wait quietly for the next put-up to be called. When they have two lines in any direction shaded in, they call "BINGO!". (Several students may have BINGO at the same time. Prizes can be given to all students who call BINGO.) 12. Play Bingo! Curriculum Connection: Students are practicing reading, listening and patience through playful, structured game. Extensions: Bingo can be adapted to address various themes in the classroom. For example, play GOODBYE BINGO at the end of the school year by using messages that are about saying goodbye (i.e.: "goodbye" "see you next year" "have a good summer"). STUDENT TIME LINE Grades: K-6 Themes: Self-esteem, Self-worth, Family unity Materials: hole-punch; pencil or pens; yarn (at least 40 inches); index cards (cut into 1.5 in x 5 in. pieces) Time: 1-2 hours Activity: 1. Discuss with your child how his or her various life experiences help to make him or her a unique individual. They help to create his or her self-picture. 2. Ask your child to think about the many, many experiences in his or her life that have helped to shape his or her self-picture. Share some of the events in your life to illustrate. 3. Help your child to think back and try to decide which events in their his or her life were the most important or significant. You may wish to pull out old photo albums or baby books to aid in this process. 4. Consider the list of significant events below when deciding experiences that helped to shape a self-picture:
6. Punch a hole in the top of each strip with a hole-punch. 7. String the events as they occurred in our child’s life along the strip. 8. Hang up the string for all to see and share. 9. Discuss the time line with other family members. 10. Encourage other family members to make their own time lines. | ||||||||||||
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