Miss Jenkin's Habit 5 Pick

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Pictures of LAKER leadership around the walls of Dogwood

Dogwood Classes Sing out!

Ask Mrs. Allen's Kindergarten or Mrs. Cloyd's 2nd graders to teach your class their 7 habit songs.
Check out this video

Seek First To Understand Friendship

Here is a clip from the movie UP that shares lead in to conversation about what makes a friend. Great follow up is UP UP and AWAY with friendship. Fill their "hot air" balloons instead of their buckets.

Here is a great story for ART to share! 

Think Win Win

Click for Song This song is to the tune of Take Me Out to the Ballgame Some great books for Habit 4 include: The Butter Battle Book Alexander and the Wind up Mouse The Rainbow Fish The Doorbell Rang The Very Clumsy Click Beetle Sheila Rae the Brave Hooray for Wodney Wat

Habit 5 Seek First to Understand, then to be understood

Read the fun loving story kids will wait to find out what happens... Enemy Pie, to teach children that is important to really try to get to know people before we judge them. Here are some suggestions for after reading. Create a recipe for Friendship. Make plastic bag chef hats with bands that say.. Cooking up friendship. Make Friend Wanted Posters

Sharpen the Saw in Math

As you build that number sense and what makes ten, why not add a little balance and SHARPEN THE SAW Here is a few You-tube links to help kids learn these basic facts. Teen # with as a group of 10 and ___ extra ones

Pre-K Count to 10 Chicken Dance

Zero the Hero

Habit 3 Put First Things First

Habit 3 is part of the "roots" Students need to understand that being proactive (positive attitude), having goals, and prioritizing things in our life are essential to growth.

The BIG Rocks activity is a great visual for students to see that when we put our Big Rocks first there is more room for little rocks (wants).  This helps them to prioritize and plan so that they are more responsible leaders.

You can use the Big Rocks video on Leader in Me, model in your classroom or have kids try it out as a cooperative learning activity. Where students are given 5 large rocks to label (come to a consensus) and a cup full of small pebbles. The students must figure out the best way to fit all the rocks in the container. After finding the solution have the students relate it to our lives. The BIG Rocks are are most important tasks to put first, the small rocks are all of the other things. 

Rock Climbing- Have students research what rock climbers must know, have and do to be successful. What if they put other things first before safety, equipment, practice, etc. Have students make a large rock climbing rock with A BIG ROCK STATEMENT and create a rock wall in your classroom. Go out to the playground and have a personal victory celebration.
As kids climb and slide down the rock wall they shout out a BIG rock in their life they will put first.