Caring and Sharing With Q-Bear

Last week was Bullying Prevention week. In order to ensure that the children in the classroom are safe and happy,  Ms. Switzer and I have started to use The Skills For Growing Program (Lions Quest).  This program is sponsored by The Lions Club of Canada and its purpose is to teach social skills to children in a fun way.

The Program teaches through a classroom Mascot called Q-Bear.

This Q-Bear is a Build a Bear that I made in New York for the purpose of the program.

The students have been working on and practicing nice manners and polite ways of asking for things such as, "may I" or "can you please" to use with others, including teachers and classroom peers.

This week, we had a lesson on "Caring and Sharing". Using the book, Franklin is Bossy (Paulette Bourgeois) and the unit on caring and sharing from Skills for Growing, the students collaborated on classroom 'rules' that will help all of us feel safe and happy at school.

Together, we discussed the Learning Goal: We want to be safe and happy.

Through a series of scenarios from the program, we came up with a list of criteria to help us meet this goal:

Be good to others.

Treat everyone nicely.

Work and play together (including inviting others to play).

Listen to others.

Help others.

Don't put others down.

To help us include student generated criteria, the children drew pictures showing how they would show caring and sharing using, "This is me..." language which was scribed by the teachers.  We posted it for all of us to see and refer to when needed.

Please ask your child about our rules for caring and sharing. It may help us to be one step closer to eliminating acts of bullying in our school.