Social Detective
We all have different types of "smarts" in our brains, computer smarts, sports smarts, math smarts, even Lego smarts! What type of smarts do we all have and is important for being around other people?
Social Smarts
What does Rock Brain try to do to people?
Rock Brain tries to make people get stuck on their ideas.
I wanted more time to play my game, but I can wait until my next free time
What is being flexible
Your teacher is about to start teaching at the board, what does expected behavior look like?
Act it out..............Whole body Listeneing
If I am feeling tired and sick, what zone am I in?
Blue Zone
What three body parts are important tools in our social detective toolbox?
Eyes, Ears and Brain
What are some superflex strategies to defeat Rock Brain?
Use self-talk to help you remember that being part of a group means you can't always do it your way. You can also take deep breaths or count to ten.
Nate is in line at lunch to get pizza. When he gets there, he is told that they just ran out and now only have corn dogs. Nate is disappointed, but he thinks, "I can have pizza another day" and takes the corn dog.
What is being flexible
A behavior that encourages others to feel calm, pleased, happy, or comfortable when we do it
Expected Behavior
We always want to be in what zone? and why?
Green Zone because we feel calm, happy and ready to learn.
Jenny and Tommy are playing a board game. When Tommy starts to lose he flips the board and knocks the pieces away. What will Jenny's thoughts be about this?
She will think that Tommy is being unexpected and she might not want to play games with him anymore.
When we have unexpected behavior people around us might start to have ------------- thoughts about us. What type of thoughts?
Uncomfortable thoughts. When our behavior is expected, people have good thoughts about us and will enjoy being around us.
Ben is playing a game on the iPad. When the teacher says to put the ipads away Ben continues to play and gets upset when the teacher closes the lid. Is Ben showing rigid or flexible thinking?
Rigid
True or false......A flexible thinker likes to try new things, accepts other peoples ideas and is fun to play with?
True
If I am in the red zone, one tool I can use is?
Look at zones poster.........Deep breathing, take a break, go for a walk.
What does it mean to have your "brain in the group?"
Your brain is in the group when others feel that you are paying attention to what is happening in the group. For example, when you are thinking about others with your eyes and listening to what they are talking about.
Your mother tells you every night at 8:30 to turn off the t.v. and get ready for bed. How do you think she would feel if 8:25 you had turned off the t.v. and begun to get ready for bed without being told?
Happy/proud that you did what you need to without her having to ask.
Your friend is very excited! It is your first time coming over their house and they've planned and set up several different activities for the two of you to do. You were hoping to do something else and you tell him that his ideas don't sound like much fun. How does he feel? How does he then behave to you? How does that make you feel?
Hurt or upset
Remember, for every behavior, there are consequences. Our behavior has an effect on how others feel, how they then behave towards us, which has an effect on how we feel.
This unthinkable gets us stuck on ideas
Rock Brain
If I feel silly and hyper what zone would I be in?
Yellow Zone
Use your Social Detective toolbox to make a smart guess about what I'm feeling.
A smart guess is when we use all of our tools to figure things out and then make a guess based on what we know about the world. Teachers also expect us to make smart guesses in the classroom.
Students are expected to do certain things each day without being asked. Name two things that you should do every day at school without being asked by your teacher.
Name those activities.
To change our ideas, do something different than we thought we would do, think of something different, keep an open mind, consider new information
What is being flexible?
What does it mean to keep our body and our brain in the group?
That we are sitting with the group, facing everyone, listening to the teacher, looking at the teacher, thinking about the topic.
If Braineater is distracting me from the lesson because I'm thinking about my favorite games what zone would I be in?
Yellow zone