![]() ![]() ![]() To do this, I’ll be bringing back a favorite character that many of the students know and love: Howard B. We’ll be spending just one week talking about this unthinkable, the thoughts it makes us have, and strategies to defeat this Unthinkable. The next Unthinkable the students are I will be reading about is the Destroyer of Fun (The D.O.F.). We may even have time to begin creating our own unthinkables (think The Lying Lion, an unthinkable a former student of mine created after identifying their own challenges with stretching the truth!), and begin learning about the Thinkables, the counterparts to the Unthinkable characters/challenges. ![]() While there are still several unthinkables we won’t be able to talk about this year, they will certainly come up next year as I visit the students in their next classrooms! To help students understand this unthinkable, and ways to defeat the thoughts it makes us have, the students will read: Energy Hare-y is the unthinkable that gives people too much energy for the situation. The last unthinkable the students will learn about while I’m away is Energy Hare-y. Beatrice Doesn’t Want To by Laura Numeroff.When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry by Sophie Bang.The Chocolate Covered Cookie Tantrum by Deborah Blumenthal.Wigglebottom Learns It’s Ok to Back Away by Howard Binkow To help students learn about Rock Brain and strategies to defeat these thoughts, the students will read six different books: Rock Brain is the unthinkable that makes us get stuck on our own ideas. The second unthinkable the students will learn about while I’m away is Rock Brain. Bootsie Barker Bites by Barbara Bottner.Wigglebottom Learns About Bullies by Howard Binkow Llama Llama and the Bully Goat by Anna Dewdney.To help teach students about Mean Jean and strategies to defeat her, the students will be reading seven different books: If Mean Jean is taking over your brain, it’s important to think about some different ways to think before you speak and act, and the impact your words and actions can have on others. But she doesn’t realize how her words are affecting others around her. She is strident and pushy about how she thinks things should be done. Mean Jean makes people act mean and bossy. Mean Jean will be the first unthinkable my long-term substitute will introduce to the students, and the one they will focus the majority of their time on. In my experience, these three Unthinkables are easier for students (and adults) to understand, because for many of us, we can remember times we have had trouble defeating these thoughts or know someone who has trouble defeating these thoughts. ![]()
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