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Technology Activity:Using their smart phones have students open their browser and search for ‘Top 10 Inspirational quote slide show’. It will take them to a slide show of these quotes.

For use with Smart Board, click on this address, Top Ten Inspirational Quotes

Ask them to pick their favorite quote or two and enter in their journal or save in NOTES on their phone for future use.
Option: Top 10 Winston Churchill Quotes

Suggested Activities

Materials:
Encouragement Mind Map – Have copies for each student or do whole group with projection of the mind map on the board.
Poster paper

Directions:

• Have learners pair share what the word ‘encouragement means to them.
• Encouragement - use this link to Webster’s dictionary to do a lexicon
• View the ‘Video Do You Really Want It? 30 sec. – soccer player being encouraged.
• Have learners pair share

- what encouragement looked like in the video.
- what the results of the encouragement were

• Use an Encouragement mind map to brainstorm the characteristics of an Encourager

Option: Blank Mind Map

Use the cooperative activity below to have the learners brainstorm and create a poster of words, “What Encouragement Sounds Like!” that may be displayed and potentially referenced proactively in management situations.

(See instructions below)

Optional Cooperative Activity:

Goal: For learners to create posters of what encouragement looks like in the different areas of their lives.

Materials:
Poster size pieces of paper
One different colored marker for each group

Directions:

• Label individual poster size sheets: (# can vary according to size of groups)
  • What Encouragement Looks like in sports.
  • What Encouragement Looks like in class.
  • What Encouragement Looks like in the hallway
  • What Encouragement Looks like (whatever areas are appropriate)
• Place the poster size sheets around the room
• Divide learners into same # of groups as # of posters
• Each group should assign one member to be a recorder and one to be a reporter
• Give each group a different colored marker.
• Have each group stand by a poster
• On teacher’s signal, the members are to brainstorm words/phrases to be recorded on the poster by the recorder.
• After about 3 -4 minutes at a signal from the teacher, the groups are to rotate clockwise to the next poster and follow the same procedure.
• After each group has rotated to all of the posters, have the reporter from each group share what is on their final poster.

Journal Reflections: (Select one)

Have learners draw or write 3-5 minutes about:
I like to be encouraged…
A time someone has encouraged me was….
I can encourage someone by…

Media

Option: Technology Activity:Using their smart phones or iPads have students open their browser and search for ‘Top 10 Inspirational quote slide show’. It will take them to a slide show of these quotes.

For use with Smart Board, click on this address Top 10 Dream Quotes

Option: Top 10 Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Ask them to pick their favorite quote or two and enter in their journal or save in NOTES on their phone for future use.

Suggested Activities

PreK – 2

Use the literature resources below to explore examples of the characters acquiring their dream.

• Use the
  Hand’y Curriculum Connections process
  to identify the literary elements, Life principles, and Eight Expectations evident in the book.

(Directions for Hand’y Curriculum Connections)

1) The Dot by Peter H Reynolds

• The DOT video 3:45 min. by Peter Reynolds This is a story for anyone who has been afraid to express themselves and really let their inner talents out. The story features a young girl, Vashti, who tells her teacher she cannot draw. The teacher replies with ”make a mark and see where it takes you” and that is the start of the girl’s wonderful journey.
• C.R.O.S.S.ROADS Decision-Making Process for THE DOT - This process takes learners through the decision-making process that the main character, Vashti, goes through in the story.

• Dot Activity Ideas Six Activity Ideas from author

Question and Answer Interview with Peter Reynold

• The DOT by Peter Reynolds activities – Story Discussion Dots, Activities

• Interactive Tools for Creative Classroom for purchase
• International DOT DAY Information - After signing up there is a free download for an Educator’s Handbook for International DOT DAY.

• Classroom Ideas for the Dot and Ish by the author, Peter Reynolds
• Georges Seurat - French post-impressionist painter who used "Pointillism", a painting technique which uses small dots to form patterns and create an image.
• Pontilism - An Example of Seurat's Work - Art Resource for Educators

2) ISH by Peter Reynolds 5:14 min.

(Candlewick Press) Ages 3-7 What happens when a reckless comment from an

older sibling destroys a Ramon’s serious passion for drawing? Luckily his older

sister sees things differently. A vase doesn’t have to look just like a vase, just

vase-ISH, she says. Thinking “ish-ly” is just the right remedy for Ramon’s

creativity to bloom.

• Teacher Guide for Ish
• Ish Teacher Resource Materials

Journal Reflection:
(Select One)

Have learners draw or write for 3-5 minutes about:

My dream is to…

I wish I could…

3rd – 6th

Suggested Activities:

1) Read the book or view the Book Read Aloud, Catching the Moon 13:44 min. with Kevin Costner about the true story of a girl with a dream becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a downloadable Activity.

• Select from among the variety of activities in the
  Activity Guide for Catching the Moon Book.
• Use the
  Hand’y Curriculum Connections
  to identify the literary elements, Life principles, and Eight Expectations evident in the book.
• Lesson: How Marcenia Achieved Her Vision/Dream

Objectives:

To learn the steps to achieving a Vision/Dream

To identify how Marcenia went through these steps in the story.

Directions:

1) Introduce the ‘Creating A Vision” process that show the steps for achieving a dream.

2) Use the Catching the Moon Goal Setting with C.R.O.S.S.ROADS™ process worksheet to have students match Marcenia’s decisions throughout the story with these steps.

Journal Reflection: (Select One)

Have learners draw or write for 3-5 minutes about:

• My dream is to…
• I wish I could…
• I’d be willing to work really hard if I could…..