Bullying

Today our wonderful counselor came in to talk about bullying and being an "upstander" instead of standing by and being a bystander.

First we reviewed the book, One by Kathryn Otoshi. This book is awesome!

The amazon description: Blue is a quiet color. Red’s a hothead who likes to pick on Blue. Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple don’t like what they see, but what can they do? When no one speaks up, things get out of hand — until One comes along and shows all the colors how to stand up, stand together, and count. As budding young readers learn about numbers, counting, and primary and secondary colors, they also learn about accepting each other's differences and how it sometimes just takes one voice to make everyone count.


This is a great video. The author reads the story as a class interprets it!
Here's another video of the same book.

Then we talked about bullying.
It is repeated, it is intentional, and it is an uneven division of power.

Then we read the book Say Something.

I always enjoy classroom community building activities.

These lessons will be useful their whole lives!