Child Abuse Presentation December 2018 Below are the resources used by the school counselor this year to address the state law that requires all students in K-12 to have child abuse education. We hope this is a great resource for you to use to open discussion with your child about the topic, review what they learned, or become more informed yourself. If you have any questions or concern, feel free to call to talk with the principal Mrs. Esarey or Mrs. Jones at 812-967-2929.
Since we are not meeting in Classroom Guidance this year, below are some resources you can enjoy with your child on topics that we have learned about in the past. Hopefully, they spur family together time and fun conversations! TOPICS INCLUDED: Bullying, College/Careers, Friendship, Kindness, and Drugs/Alcohol Refusal Skills
Bullying Lower Elementary (K-2) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions: -Why was the red robot sad? -How was the green robot different? -How did the green robot help the red robot? -When are times that you need to change how you think and that would make the situation better? What can you think differently? Book Idea: Bully Beans by Julia Cook (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud CLICK HERE.) Discussion Questions -Why does Bobbette treat people the way she does? -Why does she pick on Winston? -Why don't the other kids stand up for Winston in the beginning? -How do the Bully Beans "protect" the kids and Winston from Bobbette? -Do the Bully Beans really work? -What does the main character learn about Bobbette? How does that change her thoughts about her? Activity Idea #1: Review the Bullying PowerPoint and see if your child can identify the terms in the pictures (answers in the notes section of the PowerPoint). CLICK HERE Activity Idea #2: Talk about what your child can do to stand up for him/herself or a friend. Then help them write down some ideas you can hang on the fridge so they can see often so they come to mind when they get into a situation! CLICK HERE
Upper Elementary (3-4) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -Why do you think Red is alone? -Why do you think the boys pick on Red? -Why doesn't the basketball player just help him? -What changes the second time the boys come around Red? -Why does that make a big difference? Book Idea: The Juice Box Bully by Maria Dismondy (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud CLICK HERE.) Discussion Questions -Why is Pete so mean at the beginning of the story? -Would it be hard to be nice to Pete? Why or why not? -How do the kids handle people trying to be a bully? -What would a classroom, grade level, or school be like if they had the same rules as Mr. Peltzer's class? -Do you think Pete changed? Activity Idea #1: Review the Bullying PowerPoint. CLICK HERE Read the "Is it bullying or just being mean?" situations to your child. See if they can tell if they if it truly is bullying or if someone is just being mean (answers provided for you). CLICK HERE Activity Idea #2: Make a list of 10 things your child could do to help someone or be kind to someone who is or has been being picked on.
College/Career Lower Elementary (K-2) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -What do you want to be when you grow up? -Why? -What kinds of things do you like to do? Do you like to be inside or outside? Do you like to be dressed up or messy? Do you like school? Do you like to do things with your hands? -How might these things about yourself help you know if a career is right for you? Book Idea: Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud CLICK HERE.) Discussion Questions -Why are all jobs important? -How do we decide what we want to do when we grow up? -What do we need to do to make sure we can be the jobs we want to be when we grow up? What happens if we don't do those things? Activity Idea #1: Have your child get dressed up as their career or in their favorite college outfit. Take a picture and post it to Facebook and have them answer the following questions: -I want to be this career/go to this college: -The reason I am interested in this career or college is: -I will be good at this career/successful in college because: -If I work in this career or went to this college, my life would be like: -If I had this career I would make $ ______ a year. OR If I went to this college, it would cost $ ______ money a year to attend. Activity Idea #2: Sing and dance with your child to "Let's Graduate" CLICK HERE. Ask them: -What does it mean to graduate? -When do people graduate? (Kindergarten, high school, college) -When will you graduate? What Class of ____ are you?
Upper Elementary (3-4) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -What do you want to be when you grow up? -Why? -Is it hard to know what you want to be when you grow up or have you always known? Why? -Is there a "most important job"? Why or why not? Book Idea: Help your child find a book, article, or internet site about a career or college he/she is interested in. Good sites to visit: Careers CLICK HERE and College CLICK HERE Discussion Questions -Why did you pick that career/college? -What is something new that you learned? -What is something you already knew? -Based on what you read, are you still interested in this career/college? Activity Idea #1: Look at College and Career Matching CLICK HERE and discuss why, for each career, it would be a good idea to have the qualities listed and/or why it would be helpful to take the high school classes listed to be successful in the career. Activity Idea #2: Help your child write their first resume--encourage them to keep it up each semester or school year, adding school activities, volunteer events, etc. so they are ready in high school to apply to colleges and for scholarships or even for a job! CLICK HERE Friendship Lower Elementary (K-2) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -What does it take to be a good friend? -What do you like about your good friends? What don't you like? -How can you be a good friend to someone? -Why is it harder to accept others who are different than we are? Book Idea: Simon's Hook by Karen Gedig Burnett (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud CLICK HERE.) Discussion Questions -What are teases? What are putdowns? -What is the difference between teases and putdowns? -How does Grandma Rose explain the difference to Simon? -What ways did Simon learn to not bite the hooks? Activity Idea #1: Print the Biting the Hook handout. CLICK HERE. -Have your child write or you write for them on each fish: Different ways to not bite the hook when someone is trying to put you down. -Color the fish. -Hang the paper in a place where you can talk about it often so they keep this tool fresh. Activity Idea #2: Discuss how to make a new friend. -Discuss: Where can you meet one? How can you start a conversation? What can you talk about? How can you get to know them better? What do you do if they aren't interested in being your friend? -Print a page of seeds CLICK HERE and a seed packet CLICK HERE -Write or draw one way to meet and make a new friend on each seed -Color the seeds and seed packet, fold and staple the three sides of the packet, and put the seeds inside
Upper Elementary (3-4) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -At the beginning of the video, which friend are you mostly like? Why? -Which friend do you think most people would like to be around more? Why? -What changes their relationship? How does something so simple change it? -What do you think the friends will do with the third person when the video ends? Book Idea: Making Friends is an Art by Julia Cook (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud version CLICK HERE.) Discussion Questions -What is Brown's biggest problem? -Would you want to be Brown's friend during most of the book? Why? -Do you ever look at others and think that they have it "easy" or better than you Why? -What changes Brown? Would that be hard to do? Why or why not? Activity Idea #1: Read the book Making Friends is an Art by Julia Cook (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud version CLICK HERE.) -Print page 1. Write three things you need to work on (and you are willing to work on!) to be a better friend to others (or even to a specific friend). CLICK HERE. -Color the pencil. -Cut it out. -Hang the pencil somewhere where you can see it daily and stay committed to being a better friend. Each week, ask yourself, "Am I doing better on each of these three things?" Even ask others if you are improving or not for a true picture! Activity Idea #2: Friendship trust. -Blindfold your child. -Lead them around the house. You can stop them and leave them for a couple seconds while you do something else. You can run them into something (don't hurt them!). You can get distracted by other "stuff" and "forget" them. And you can do a good job talking them through what is happening. -Take the blindfold off. -Sit down and discuss: What did you like? What didn't you like? How was I a good friend to you? How was I a bad friend to you? When have you done things like this to your friends or had them done to you? Share with them a time when something happened to you with one of your friends. -We all make mistakes sometimes, so how do you know when it is someone making a mistake and someone who isn't a good friend? How do you handle that?
Kindness Lower Elementary (K-2) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -Who is kind? -Why? -When we are kind to someone are they always kind in return? Why? -Should someone else's behavior determine how nice we are? (i.e. if they are mean we can be mean or if they are nice then they deserve us to be nice to them) Why or why not? Book Idea: How do I Stand in Your Shoes by Susan DeBell (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud video at CLICK HERE.) Discussion Questions -What was wrong with Miranda at the beginning of the story? -What did Miranda learn? -How did what she learn help Miranda? -Is this something that is easy or hard for you to do? Activity Idea #1: Listen/Watch the song "Take a Walk in Someone Else's Shoes" CLICK HERE. -Discuss: What does it mean to take a walk in someone else's shoes? Why is it important to do this? -Try on some shoes that aren't yours. How do they feel? Do they feel strange? Why? Would your shoes feel "weird" to someone else but feel "good" to you? Why? Activity Idea #2: Make a Kindness Challenge List. -Make a list for your family of kind things you could do for each other this week. -When someone does one of the things on the list, they can sign their name next to that item; if they do it five times then they get to sign it five times. -At the end of the week, don't count how many things each person did, but talk about how you feel at the end of the week, how you felt doing the kind things or when kind things were done for you, and how your family is the same or different. -If you liked what happened, try it again with some new things on your list.
Upper Elementary (3-4) Video CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -How does kindness change things? -Why do you think he does it? -What does he get from doing these things? -How might you make a difference by being kinder? Book Idea: What if Everybody Did That? by Ellen Javernick (If you don't have access to the book, try this link for an okay read-aloud CLICK HERE.) Discussion Questions -Why do we think we are the only ones who do something or get to break the rules? -How does breaking the rules affect others? -How is breaking the rules unkind? -Are you a rule-follower or rule-breaker? How do you feel when others break the rule? Activity Idea #1: Spreading kindness. -Watch "Color Your World with Kindness" from The Ned Show. CLICK HERE -Do you think this can happen? Why? How? -What do you think would have happened if he had not made the choice to be kind? How would that have changed things? -Think about something really nice you could do for three people. -Write three notes that say: I chose to do something nice for you. Please pick three people of your own and choose to do three nice things for them to see how long we can keep this going and how much we can color our world with kindness. -Leave the notes with your acts of kindness and see what happens. Activity Idea #2: Make a Kindness Challenge List. -Make a list for your family of kind things you could do for each other this week. -When someone does one of the things on the list, they can sign their name next to that item; if they do it five times then they get to sign it five times. -At the end of the week, don't count how many things each person did, but talk about how you feel at the end of the week, how you felt doing the kind things or when kind things were done for you, and how your family is the same or different. -If you liked what happened, try it again with some new things on your list.
Drugs/Alcohol Refusal Skills Lower Elementary (K-2) Video (Watch all three in the series) CLICK HERE 1CLICK HERE 2CLICK HERE 3 Video Discussion Questions -What does RAT stand for? -Why should you do that? -What does tobacco do to you and your body? -How does Flick get pulled into smoking? -If you were Flick, how could you say "No" to Roachie? Book Idea: Work on one of the Drug-Free workbooks: Kindergarten CLICK HERE, 1st Boy CLICK HERE/ Girl CLICK HERE, 2nd CLICK HERE Discussion Questions -What are drugs? -Why is it important to know what drugs are? -How do we know who a safe adult is? -What if we don't know if something is safe? Activity Idea #1: Do a safety check with your child. -Make sure all cleaning supplies are out of reach of small children and older children know what they can or cannot use without your help. -Make sure all children's medicines are put away and remind children they don't take ANY medicines without a safe adult's help, even if they take it all the time. -Ask your child how they could say "No" if someone asked them if they wanted to try something they knew was dangerous. -Role play offering them drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. so they can practice saying "No." Activity Idea #2: Sing and dance with your child to "No Drugs! No Way!"CLICK HERE. Ask them: -Why do you want to stay away from drugs? -When is it okay to take drugs? (from a doctor or safe adult when I am sick)
Upper Elementary (3-4) Video (keep watching, even if seems confusing) CLICK HERE Video Discussion Questions -What is the yellow? -What happens to the bird? -How does he change? Does he still like the yellow? Why or why not? -What do you think happens to him? Book Idea: Watch "I'm Only Me if I'm Drug-Free." Discussion Questions -What happened to Timothy? His friends? -The video was made by the girl at the end. Could she have done this if she was on drugs? Why or why not? -What can drugs take away from people? Activity Idea #1: Natural High Part I. -Watch the following videos: Video 1 CLICK HERE, Video 2 CLICK HERE, Video 3 CLICK HERE. -Discuss how to say "No" to drugs. Practice so it feels natural saying it in different ways. -Fill out the iPod Playlist on what to say CLICK HERE. Activity Idea #2: Natural High Part II. -Watch the following videos: Video 1 CLICK HERE, Video 2 CLICK HERE, Video 3 CLICK HERE. -Discuss what things make them feel really good or gives them a "natural high" without doing drugs. What do they enjoy? What are they good at? -Add apps to your iPhone that symbolize the things that give you a natural high.