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Hi There! Last week I posted on Facebook about how my team's hallway needed a spring make-over. We were stuck in winter mode and the dark blue butcher paper was starting to depress me. I needed color! I needed funshine... yes... I said FUNSHINE!! This week, I had planned a lesson on self-esteem for my 4th graders. Part of our curriculum is to teach students about tobacco and alcohol resistance. I always start this conversation with lessons on self-esteem and friendships. I started the lesson with a quick powerpoint with two pictures: one of a child frowning and looking down, the other of a child smiling and looking confident. I had the students brainstorm words to describe each of the kids. Then I introduced them to the term self-esteem. We then went to kids health.org and read the article "The Story of Self-Esteem". I use kids health.org a lot. It has great articles written so that kids can understand the concepts. The website even has a read-aloud feature. My students LOVE it because it is a computer voice that often pronounces words incorrectly and they think that is hilarious! After we added our notes to our health notebooks, I introduced the "Garden of Greatness" craft. I had each student brainstorm a list of things that he or she is good at, things that made them feel important, or things that made them feel unique and special. I passed out strips of bright colored paper and circles pre-labeled with their names. Students glued between 4 and 8 of the strips onto the back of the circle. When that was done, they turned over the flowers to the front side and wrote ideas off of their list onto the strips of paper. To finish the project, I collected the flowers and stapled them onto the bulletin board. As I stapled, I wrapped each petal to the back. The finish product turned out great! Bright, colorful, and full of FUNSHINE!! Thanks for visiting! Here are few new resources recently added to my TeachersPayTeachers store: Get it FREE! Click on the graphic to go to my TpT store to download!

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What kid do you know who doesn't love a good old fashioned fortune teller? This paper craft game will not only have your students wanting to play more, but will also help them build tools to deal with conflict in peaceful, empowering ways. What's Included: *4 do-it-yourself, customizable & colorable fortune tellers *4 ready-to-go fortune tellers, in both color and black and white *"Top 50 Conflict Resolution Strategies" List containing 50 different tools that students can refer to when designing their own, unique cootie catcher. *Assembly Instructions and Directions on How to Play. *The "Get Creative With Solutions" ready-made fortune teller is perfect to use in solution-focused counseling sessions and mediations. Why Teach Strategies for Conflict Resolution? Conflict is one of those inevitable parts of living. One of the most important jobs we educators have is to teach young people how to navigate through conflict in a way which helps to build & repair relationships, as compared to sever or hurt relationships. Peacefully dealing with conflict can be an opportunity for growth, as compared to something that is feared, avoided, or pushed away. Resolving conflict can be a way to understand ourselves better, to understand others better, to develop empathy, to cultivate resiliency, and to tap into our creativity by thinking outside of the box to come up with solutions. Ways to Use These "Conflict Resolution"Fortune Tellers Use these Conflict Resolution fortune tellers as part of your community-building and social emotional, curriculum. Not only fun for classroom social skills lessons, these fortune tellers are also great for school counselors to use in small groups, mediation and individual counseling sessions. If you are looking for more fortune tellers that you can use for classroom lessons, small groups, or individual counseling interventions, check out: Positive Affirmation & Self-Esteem Fortune Tellers/Cootie Catchers Growth Mindset Fortune Tellers: Fun Growth Mindset Lesson & Counseling Groups SELF-ESTEEM Fortune Teller! 50 Ways to Build Self-Esteem! School Counseling Fun! Top 50 THINGS I CAN CONTROL Fortune Tellers *Fun School Counseling Intervention

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