Bullying Prevention is such a vital topic to cover with your students. While I believe in implementing a proactive counseling program that establishes key character traits like kindness and empathy, I also believe in a preventative one that directly educates students on the harmful effects of bullying. Check out these activities you can use to spread awareness. Reminder: If you’re reading this in October, it is Bullying Prevention Month! Bullying Prevention Month Idea 1: Host a Fun Run A fun run is a great way to promote Bullying Prevention Month! Have students pledge how many laps they want to run. If your budget allows, give a type of reward to students upon completion. This could be bracelets, stickers, pencils, temporary tattoos, etc. (Hopefully with a bullying prevention phrase on it!) Oriental Trading and Amazon likely have cheap options. You could collaborate with PE teachers to do the activity or do it at recess. I did this a few years ago and my upper elementary kiddos LOVED it! Tip: Keep track of the laps so you can share the grand total in the morning announcements or in a parent newsletter. Bullying Prevention Month Idea 2: Videos Another great way to start conversations around bullying is by sharing videos with students. Sharing bullying prevention awareness via videos is one of my go-to activities plus it's perfect for distance learning! Showing a short video is a starting point for deeper conversations and is a great way to get students engaged in the content. Check out some of my favorites: For the Birds Who is it for: K-2 What's it about? This cute Pixar silent film shows how one bird who looks different than others. Because of his differences he is made fun of. Why do I show it? Because there are no words in the video, students get to interpret the context of the film. Depending on age you can take the conversation in different ways to discuss themes of kindness, bullying prevention, etc. The NED Show Who is it for: 3-5 What's it about? This animated video introduces the term
Anti-bullying themed bracelets for your students! All you need to do is print and cut and then have your students color their anti-bullying message bracelets. Cut the ends and tape together to fit each student. This is the perfect activity for bullying prevention in your classroom or for school-wide bullying prevention activities! All aged kids will love these designs! You can also laminate each bracelet if you want to make them last. This product includes 18 different anti-bullying themed designs. Click HERE to send a Counselor's Corner Newsletter home with information for your school families so they can learn more about: What bullying is and is not Effects of bullying Who to contact if you suspect your child is being bullied How to talk to your child about bullying Click HERE to view all Bullying Prevention products to bundle and save money! Connect with us! Receive an EXCLUSIVE FREEBIE and tips for your counseling program once a month Follow Counseling Tools by Jenn on TPT
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Here is some advice on how to prevent bullying, for parents and kids
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. My very first ever See Bean Teach post was about that very topic, so I thought it would be a nice throw-back to look at some more anti-bullying ideas! Here, I've listed three lessons I've taught so far this month and two more I plan to teach. I like to be able to to link our content with talking about social skills type topics (just so we can make connections between what we learn and the real world)... I also feel like lessons that help build our classroom community are a tool to help prevent bullying because I've notice that it is much easier for students to pick on those they know very little about... but when they know another's story and where they come from and who they really are, they find it easier to choose to say and do uplifting things. Pacer.org is a great online resource for some facts, along with Stomp Out Bullying. (1) As mentioned, my very first post, many moons ago was about a lesson I did with a kindergarten class during my senior year of college. It all focused around The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin and how to avoid bullying. It went over really well, so this year I decided to whip that baby back out! My class had a bunch of fun listening to the story on YouTube and then making their own unique pumpkins a couple weeks ago. Of course, I added in an attempt at some academic content and had them make a verbal text-self connection before they could craft their own Spookly, but it was a much needed afternoon of creative thinking and fun after a week of 6 weeks tests (BOO ON THAT.) (2) We learned about adjectives in language arts this week, so we combined that with a lesson I saw on good ol' Farley's blog a while back. We described my "friend" that I'd drawn on chart paper using adjectives. When the children slung out unkind words, I crumpled it up. When they said kind things, I uncrumpled the paper. We noticed that the wrinkles were still there, and even after we tried to smooth the paper out by saying nice things, the wrinkles didn't totally go away. I think it made a bit of an impact, because after the lesson we did a full on "share you feelings circle" for about 10 minutes. I made sure to end it by asking all of the students to share something that has been a positive interaction with another person in their life so that we could have some emotional closure and a way to bring our thoughts back to a happy place if they'd traveled a little away from there. (3) We also drew portraits of a classmate (they had to draw out of a jar so it was random!) and described them using 10 adjectives. I was so pleasantly surprised that no one had unkind things to say on their drawings AND they were all excited about who they got (even when it wasn't there bestfriendevereverever). I am proud of how close-knit and sweet my students are. We even had a "special visitor" from another class in another grade our room that day (yep, I get to be that teacher) so I threw his name in the bucket too and my sweet little nuggets just acted like that was totally normal and drew him a beautiful portrait as well! (4) We watched the BrainPop Jr. video on bullying and then did a class sort to clarified the difference between true bullying and teasing someone of having a "mean moment" using the phrases I cut from a chart that I found on Ms. Sepp's Counselor Corner. It sparked a lot of great discussion about what kinds of things we could problem solve on our own or by talking with the person who offended us, versus what kinds of things we couldn't solve unless we got help from an adult. (5) We read The Recess Queen, Chrysanthemum, Giraffes Can't Dance. Then we practiced making Text-Self connections. We talked about how we felt and how the characters felt, and experiences that we had that we similar to experiences the characters. We used Venn diagrams to compare both our life experiences and that of the characters AND the characters in the books. There's a freebie in my TPT store- it's not fancy by any stretch of the imagination, but it works! (: I linked up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share these five ideas! You should participate, too! P.S. Real talk- this post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Check out my About Mrs. B page for more info on that!
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A great bulletin board idea for all ages! Print this to post for the Halloween season in your hallways & classrooms. We wanted something to get our student's attention for Bullying Prevention Month. Also check out my bullying powerpoint presentation available on my page. ...
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