Assemblies & Author Visits
Assemblies
Grades K-5, 45-60 mins
Child Behavior Consulting makes learning fun! We focus the unfocused, motivate the unmotivated and challenge the critical thinker! Assemblies are specially designed for grades K-5 with options for K-5, K-2, and 3-5 audiences. A variety and number of opportunities for audience participation are built in each assembly to keep kids and adults engaged and involved. Assemblies support the theme of your school’s Wellness Week, “Kickoff” to Programs, PARP, Self-Esteem, SEL Programs or simply encourage your students to think about their potential while providing them with takeaways such as a foundation of knowledge and ready to use practical strategies that support Active Listening, Empathy, Strategies in How to Focus and Think Positively, Teamwork, Confidence, Self-Concept, Skills in Overcoming Challenges etc.
Author Visits
Grades Pre-K – 5th, 45-60 mins
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Henry Learns to Launch!
Grades 1 – 5 (45-60 mins)
Program Objectives: Learning to focus, positive choices, using strategies, accessing knowledge
About the Book: Henry was always getting in trouble and feeling bad about himself. He felt like his body was a race car and his brain was the engine. He just couldn’t focus and stay calm until he was diagnosed with ADHD and met his teacher, Ms. Rivelli. Through the use of her powerful learning tools, Henry learns how to self-regulate his thoughts, feelings, and actions. See how Henry gains independence to make positive academic and behavioral choices as he uses his Tools Inspiring Action! ™ and launches through the learning process.
Culminating Activity: The students will identify what is difficult for them and pair that challenge with a specific strategy to help them overcome that challenge. Students will discuss how they can start a task and launch through it until it is complete. Contingent on the students’ abilities, they will demonstrate their understanding by writing sentences incorporating a challenge with a specific strategy or they will make and label a rocket with specific strategies.
Henry’s Thoughts
Grades 1-5 (45-60 mins)
Program Objectives: Confidence, self-concept, self-talk as a power tool, overcoming challenges
About the Book: “I think the books are going to be hard for me and the other kids will be better readers than me,” tells a very worried 2nd grader to his new teacher. With the help of Henry’s teacher, Ms. Rivelli, and his classmates, he learns the difference between negative and positive self-talk. Henry embraces the skill of using positive self-talk as a tool and it helps him confidently use his reading strategies to read a new and previously perceived challenging book!
Culminating Activity: The students will learn to recognize that they have an inner voice. They will identify positive/negative thoughts and the possible meaning behind these thoughts. Lastly, they will practice changing negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Each student will complete a self-talk worksheet. Mindfulness and an abundance of visuals are included.
Henry Helps a Friend
Grades Pre-k – 5 (45-60 mins)
Program Objectives: Empathy, self-confidence, differences, focus, active listening
About the Book: When a new student joins Henry’s class, he reminisces about the days when he was the kid who was always getting in trouble in school and at home. When his teacher, Ms. Rivelli asks him to teach her the ropes around the class, Henry is nervous. When he meets Maria, he is reminded of how he had learned to focus and ignore distractions. Henry quickly musters up the confidence to help her as she robustly enters and disrupts the class. Readers will find themselves laughing and learning through this funny and whimsical story as Maria practices to control her impulsivity, anxiousness, and distractibility.
Culminating Activity: The students will identify and discuss how Maria was helped and supported by her teacher and peers. The students will also discuss how they will help a new student who enters their own class or what they have experienced themselves under those circumstances. They will complete a Henry Helps Maria Worksheet.