Showing posts with label Character Strengths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Character Strengths. Show all posts

Monday, 18 June 2018

Walking In Someone Else's Shoes


   Walking in someone else’s shoes
What would you feel like if you had shoes that had five or even seven
holes in them? How would you feel? I no how I would feel if I had
holes in my shoes. I’d feel incredibly cold , extremely humiliated and
also very sick because my feet were so FREEZING cold!
I bet if I lived there I’d walk instead of paying for petrol and save up
my money. I’d do this to get every person that lived there lots of food,
water, and medison as well as new shoes of course! That is what I’d
do for them.
If you're reading this right now don’t accuse these people of being no
good just because of what they look like or what they don’t have.
The most important thing is what they do and how they treat this
world. The negative things people say about them is not fair. Just
remember what you would feel if every day you struggled to survive.
By Dahlisha



Walking in someone else’s shoes          

By looking at this person’s  shoes I noticed that they didn't have a good life.
I imagined that he had to use uncomfortable materials for clothing and
probably didn’t have much food so he had to go without a lot of stuff.

Just so you know you should never judge someone without knowing the
whole story. You may think you know, but by doing this you are judging
someone. Not good!   Always think about others and make the lives of
other people better. There are little children that need food, school and
a home. There’s also some children like us that have horrible diseases
that they could die from.


Many of us are not helping or donating to make other people healthy are
we? We need to look at our world carefully and to take a walk in someone
else’s shoes and help change their life.

I think the problem is our responsibility clearly. We’re not good enough to
be open minded about others. Hopefully this will change after you take
a trip into their life. This  brings me back to the point where people should
walk in another person’s shoes. Some people are even taking from them.
I do not think this is okay. They are probably living in cold broken houses
with air coming in and no warm balnkets. if you were them your life would
be miserable. Imagine!

Remember before opening your mouth to say something nasty about
another person walk a mile in their shoes because one step in a stranger’s
shoes is all it takes to learn a lot that you never knew.
Thanks for reading or listening!!!!!!! =)

By Reuben






Monday, 5 March 2018

What are some examples of showing kindness toward others?
We viewed this video clip and make some further connections to kindness and brainstormed their ideas.
Kindness Boomerang - "One Day" - YouTube

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" - Aesop, Author

In groups children read a kindness quote and brainstormed what they thought it meant. As a class we discussed our ideas and tried to make a personal connection to these.

Thursday, 11 January 2018

Our Journey

Links to the Health Curriculum L 2/3

Relationships
- Identify and demonstrate ways of maintaining and enhancing relationships between individuals and within groups.
Societal attitudes and values
- Explore how people's attitudes, values, and actions contribute to healthy physical and social environments



 

What we initially felt character strengths were?


“I think it is a person in a book that plays the main part”


“When you are strong”


“What makes you as a person”


“Like determination”


“When you think about other people”


“If you are kind and think before you speak”


“When you act a certain way”


We discussed the meaning of  character strength.

Character is the anchor of your life. It determines who and what you are.It determines how others view you.”  

Darlene Mannix



We did a lot of self exploration both at circle time and on Google Classrooms. Here are some of our questions and a few snapshots of our responses. The purpose of this was to know ourselves a bit better and talk  about the language of character.


Our Thought Provoking Questions
 I am grateful for..... (gratitude and appreciation)
What did you do in the past year that you're most proud of?
What is optimism?
What is grit?
What have I done to someone to make them feel good?
What would you want to be famous for?
What is something you need to work on?
What something in the last year you are most proud of?
 How do other people feel when you say something nice to them?






We had discussions about the character strengths we identified  with and others identified within us.


What is one thing we can do this week to develop our character strengths?


What is one way we have used this strength  in the past month?


How can we help other children develop their strengths?


We then identified our own signature character strengths by completing VIA survey. Children shared what they found out about their signature strengths.






We completed a variety of activities to investigate this area including:

In my 30,000 days on this world how am I going to make a positive impact?

How would you use your character strengths to survive on a deserted island?


How could you flex your strengths?

What do some of your character strengths actually mean?

Do other children recognise other character strengths within you? If so what are they and what do they see in your actions?





Thursday, 5 October 2017

Gratitude

Koru 2 And The Science Of Character

As part of Character Day we have been looking closely at our own character strengths. Many of our character strengths are in line with the New Zealand Curriculum Key Competencies and our school values.

Over the weeks we have studied ourselves very closely. Here are some of the questions aimed at provoking our thinking in this area. We also learnt some new language for example the difference between appreciation and gratitude.
Our Thought Provoking Questions

  • I am grateful for..... (gratitude or appreciation)
  • What did you do in the past year that you're most proud of?
  • What is optimism?


We viewed different digital media and this got us thinking.



  • What character strengths are shown here?
  • What could this person do to develop these further?
  • 30,000 Days- We are only on this Earth for approximately 30,000 days. The film talks about our unique special sauce: the character strengths that make  us.



From here we created a slideshow about our own character strengths. These can also can be viewed in  our Google Slide accounts.





Where to from here? Our next steps

What is one thing we can do this week to develop our character strengths?

What is one way we have used this strength  in the past month?
How can we help other children develop their strengths?















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