Students will share about their families and identify what qualities make their family special to them.

To develop short skits about the community values, and for participants to produce their own theater festival.

Co-create community agreements and classroom norms between teacher and students.

Students each receive one color and must collaborate to create a single picture together, using only their assigned color with no trading allowed, then reflect on what they learned about teamwork.

Students will create a drawing or collage that expresses how they see themselves and how others see them — building self-confidence by giving voice to who they are on the inside.

To discuss real issues that are occurring in the group, and to encourage participants to come up with their own solutions to real problems.

Children will develop problem-solving skills by moving through an interesting obstacle course.

Through investigating a pineapple, students will engage in sensory exploration, problem solving, creative thinking, language development, and beginning science concepts.

Students will reflect on ethical responsibility through learning about pets and performing in a puppet show activity.

Children build social, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they work in small groups to create open-ended constructions using a variety of materials — without relying on tape or glue.

Students will each receive a cup of three different-colored Skittles and answer reflection questions linked to each color, sharing their responses with the group in a circle. This activity helps students build relationships and practice using their voice in a group discussion.

Using Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches as a starting point, students explore what it feels like to be left out, how groups create “in” and “out” categories, and how to build fairer practices in their own community.

Students will be able to identify the people in their lives they can go to for help.

Students will listen to a story while moving through a series of yoga poses, using breath and movement to practice grounding and self-control. A brief debrief follows where students reflect on how focusing on their breath affects their thoughts and feelings.

Unity Day is a national day when students, teachers, and families wear orange to show they support bullying prevention. In this activity, students explore what unity means and collaborate in pairs on posters that show how working together can help stop bullying. Posters are then hung throughout the school.

Students will learn what a self-portrait is and create their own — building self-confidence by giving voice to who they are and what they like about themselves.

In this lesson, students explore the ways people with a critical health condition or disease might feel, as well as ways they can support and show compassion toward those who are living with an illness.

Students will play a cooperative partner game where one student calls out body part commands (e.g., "elbow to elbow!") and pairs connect the named body parts, practicing listening, self-control, and movement. The game builds in complexity as students must follow multiple commands consecutively while switching partners throughout.

Students will play Red Light, Green Light, moving toward the teacher on "Green Light!" and freezing on "Red Light!," practicing listening, body awareness, and self-control. Afterward, they reflect on how they managed their bodies and emotions during the game.

Students listen to a friendship song, brainstorm and dictate qualities of a good friend, and draw their friends on paper links that get connected into a class Friendship Chain, finishing with a shared Friendship Poem or Chant.