TELL ME Tue, 🤗 Wk12Ep53S8 🌈 Wellness,Bienestar📚11/30/21📚"Suzie the Dress...

Start a journey with Positive Actions today! Join us daily on PositiveValuesNetwork.com for TELL ME TUESDAY, featuring a story from the KINDNESS COLLECTION and new weekly KINDNESS QUESTION for you to learn more about others in your community! The Positive Action Word of the Week is: WELLNESS, and in Spanish, BIENESTAR! Positive Actions says that WELLNESS is "to be healthy in body, mind, and feelings. An active process of making positive choices towards a healthy life." WELLNESS POSITIVE ACTIONS TO FOLLOW INCLUDE: 🥰 Connect with others 🤗 Be active (PHYSICAL) 🍎 Take notice (MINDFULNESS and EMOTIONAL) ✅ Keep learning (INTELLECTUAL) 😎 Give kindness (SOCIAL) Believing in your positive self concept is the basis for positive thoughts that will help us all reach our goals and do Positive Actions! Share with a friend this week's "Kindness Question".... TELL ME ....your positive actions to help you be well! And, for more info on this week's KINDNESS COLLECTION Selection: (Book 2 of 4) NEW from the Morgan County Partnership, book series on MENTAL HEALTH in collaboration with the MoCo Interact Club/Positive Partners and Broadcasting Club. Hear 12th grader, Hayden Fincham, read Suzie the Dressmaker, by Kira Paris-Moore, a gentle look at anxiety and tools to help achieve success and wellness; even when anxious. From the author: "Anxiety is a very common issue faced by many adults and even children. It is excessive worry about your future because you are plagued by the feeling that something bad will happen. Anxiety is overwhelming and negatively impacts your ability to function at home or school. It is not something that one needs to be ashamed of and in fact, by not acknowledging anxiety, ti can make it worse." "Suzie the Dressmaker, tells the story of a beautiful young girl who loves fashion but struggles with anxiety. This book demonstrates how Suzy is Able to overcome this issue through the use of coping skills in the form of relaxation techniques. It also contains a positive imagery exercise for kids to practice on their own to help them manage their anxiety." Here are some Positive Actions to help when you or a friend feels anxious or uncomfortable! Remember to: 🔢count to10 🖼use images of pictures/places you enjoy 🧘🏽‍♀️relaxation, breathing 🤔think PAWsitive thoughts Using Positive Actions, Values, Prevention, SEL, and Wellness to discover student's self concept, promote physical and intellectual wellness. Weekly Positive Actions are available for grades k-12! Subscribe to: PositiveValuesNetwork.com Daily Dose: positiveactionsmcp.blogspot.com On Instagram @positiveactions.mcp Subscribe to Youtube: youtube.com/user/hottfamily6​​​​​​​​​... Join the free APP on Apple Store and GooglePlay #socialemotionallearning #mentalhealth #autism #selfconcept

THANKFUL Thu 🤗 Wk11Ep50S8 🍎Treasure Game🌈 TREASURE,TESORO📚10/28/21📚 Posi...

PositiveValuesNetwork "Daily Dose" in the classroom, virtual school, and at home or work, all use Positive Actions to focus building core values, raising developmental assets, and building community well being. PositiveValuesNetwork.com joins us each Thursday for a values video to discover ways to help improve students internal and external Developmental Assets, making positive choices, and learning about our thoughts, actions, and feelings. Today, we see a girl express gratitude towards her father as she moves away from home. From passiton.com, "gratitude" is an expression of thankfulness. Her words bring her daddy to tears. Both play a positive role in providing healty self concepts for each other, which helps improve their mental health. The Positive Action Word of the Week is: Thankful/Gratitude, and in Spanish, Gracias/Gratitud! Positive Actions says that GRATITUDE is "a thankful expression for what a person receives, whether tangible or intangible. With gratitude, we acknowledge the goodness in our lives. Remembering to be thankful helps to stay positive even in the bad in our lives. Gratitude helps us to: 🥰 feel more positive emotions 🤗 relish good experiences 🍎 improves our health and wellness ✅ deal with adversity 😎 build strong relationships This Positive Action lesson helps with STUDENT SUCCESS and Standards! Positive thoughts, actions, and feelings to develop EMOTIONAL WELLNESS. Let's encourage each other this week and be happy and grateful for each of our unique self concepts! Because, as Mrs. Hott explains from Positive Actions, a healthy SELF CONCEPT leads to positive MENTAL HEALTH! Let celebrate our uniqueness today and be thankful! Providing evidence based curriculum for K-12 to promote positive actions, wellness, mental health, prevention, and positive choices leading to student achievement; for online, in the classroom, virtual/remote learning, and more! Talking about emotions and connecting with others is a positive action. PositiveValuesNetwork.com: Celebrating our uniqueness and diversity to build positive relationships. Weekly Positive Actions are available for grades k-12! Subscribe to: PositiveValuesNetwork.com Daily Dose: positiveactionsmcp.blogspot.com On Instagram @positiveactions.mcp Subscribe to Youtube: youtube.com/user/hottfamily6​​​​​​​​​... Join the free APP on Apple Store and GooglePlay #socialemotionallearning #mentalhealth #wellness #gratitude

TELL ME Tue, 🤗 Wk11Ep48S8 🌈 Gratitude,Gratitud📚11/16/21📚"Trey the Chef"✅...

Start a journey with Positive Actions today! Join us daily on PositiveValuesNetwork.com for TELL ME TUESDAY, featuring a story from the KINDNESS COLLECTION and new weekly KINDNESS QUESTION for you to learn more about others in your community! The Positive Action Word of the Week is: Thankful/Gratitude, and in Spanish, Gracias/Gratitud! Positive Actions says that GRATITUDE is "a thankful expression for what a person receives, whether tangible or intangible. With gratitude, we acknowledge the goodness in our lives. Remembering to be thankful helps to stay positive even in the bad in our lives. Gratitude helps us to: 🥰 feel more positive emotions 🤗 relish good experiences 🍎 improves our health and wellness ✅ deal with adversity 😎 build strong relationships Believing in your positive self concept is the basis for positive thoughts that will help us all reach our goals and do Positive Actions! Share with a friend this week's "Kindness Question".... TELL ME ....I AM THANKFUL FOR MY (_______ talent/skill) THAT MAKES ME UNIQUE! And, for more info on this week's KINDNESS COLLECTION Selection: (Book 1 of 4) NEW from the Morgan County Partnership, book series on MENTAL HEALTH in collaboration with the MoCo Interact Club/Positive Partners and Broadcasting Club. Hear 10th grader, Miya Saville, read TREY THE CHEF, by Kira Paris-Moore. A super sweet look at the unique abilities of children with autism. Then, find some PAWsome recipies for kids in the back! "Autism is often stigmatized and looked at as a difficult road for parents and caregivers facing this challenge. However, children with autism have unique gifts and abilities that are often overshadowed by their social deficits. It is important to recognize the gifts in these children and to nurture their strengths. Trey the Chef, offers a unique perspective about my son who lives with autism by telling a story about my son’s interest in cooking that will hopefully inspire people to look at children with autism differently. “Kids have to be exposed to different things in order to develop. A child is not going to find out that he likes to play a musical instrument, if you never exposed him to it…” Temple Grandin."

💚 Positive Actions🍎 High School, Wk4Ep2S2YPA🍎UNIQUE💡ÚNICO,ÚNICA🥰Positive...

PositiveValuesNetwork.com welcomes you to the Morgan County Partnership's Weekly Positive Action High School Lesson! This week, we talk about the new Positive Value Word: UNIQUE and in Spanish, ÚNICA, ÚNICO as we learn all about our PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, and EMOTIONAL WELLNESS. Join YPA Live Kick-off celebrating Int'l Peace Day at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwOVL... YPA Overview video link here: https://vimeo.com/584592666 Join MoCo YPA Mobile Platform, Launch new learning begins Oct 15 during morning Advisory Time, at this link: https://www.youthpeaceaction.org/ Click "Become a Young Peacebuilder" Then enter: High School YPA Student/Youth Access Code is: 1bshs4youthpeace Teacher/Group Access Code is: 1bshs4guidepeace 🍎UNIQUE💡ÚNICA, ÚNICO🥰 is celebrating that YOU are "one of a kind!" This Positive Action lesson helps with STUDENT SUCCESS and Standards! Positive thoughts, actions, and feelings to develop EMOTIONAL WELLNESS and begin to define a teenager's SELF CONCEPT🍎 💡Positive Action GOAL for Week4Ep2S1🥰 is "To learn that positive thoughts lead to positive actions, positive actions lead to positive feelings, and positive feelings lead to more positive thoughts in a self-reinforcing circle." Listen to two examples about how your thoughts control your outcome. 😀 Love🤓 🧠 Integrity, Responsible📕 😍 Courtesy, Patience🎸 😀 Fairness, (Equity), Thankful🤓 🧠 Sharing, Honesty📕 😍 Kindness, Respect🎸 🗣Humility, Caring♥️ 🛠 Change the World 🌎 Providing evidence based curriculum for K-12 to promote positive actions, wellness, mental health, prevention, and positive choices leading to student achievement; for online, in the classroom, virtual/remote learning, and more! Talking about emotions and connecting with others is a positive action. PositiveValuesNetwork.com: Celebrating our uniqueness and build relationships based on our diversity! Weekly Positive Actions are available for grades k-12! Subscribe to: PositiveValuesNetwork.com Daily Dose: positiveactionsmcp.blogspot.com On Instagram @positiveactions.mcp Subscribe to Youtube: youtube.com/user/hottfamily6​​​​​​​​​... Join the free APP on Apple Store and GooglePlay #PositiveActions​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #MentalHealth​​​​​​​​​​​ #teens​​​ #community

🎨"2021 Family Art Therapy Week 18" COURTESY/CORTESÍA with Ms. Mandi, BSW🎨

“2021- FAMILY ART-THERAPY WEEK 20” This week’s projects are going to be related to the Positive

Action Word of the Week-

An intense feeling of deep affection for something or

someone.

Your projects can be uploaded and emailed to me at: amanda.knepper@k12.wv.us OR amanda@morganpartnership.org

Please check the links on PositiveValuesNetwork.com for other art therapy projects and Positive Action videos.

There are many ways to show love. You can show love by doing nice things for a person, you can give them a hug, draw a picture for them, say kind and caring words. You can show love to your pet by giving them treats, taking them for a walk or giving them a bath. When you show acts of kindness, this is also a way of expressing love.

There are 5 Love Languages which consist of: Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Quality Time, Gift Giving and Physical Touch. We are going to incorporate these into this week’s lessons.

Monday- Project: Love Through Words of Affirmation

Materials: You will need your family, paper and pencil to take notes, a small wooden board, small nails, hammer, thread or yarn of different colors. You will need to choose someone special to your family that will be receiving this project.

Showing love in this manner can look like simple compliments to someone else. “Thank you for your help this evening.” “You look very nice today with your new haircut.” “Thank you for being a wonderful friend.” These are just a few examples of showing love through words of affirmation.

Self-Love Through Words of Affirmation: can also be expressed in forms of positive self- talk, journaling and daily affirmations. “I did a really good job today on my spelling test.” “I really like the way I look today.” These are a few examples of positive self-talk.

Today, you and your family will be creating a project to give to someone else. You will see their expression and their sense of appreciation towards you and your family for your gifts. How did they respond? Were they appreciative? Did they compliment your gift? Overall, how did this make you feel? Talk openly with your family about the project, and the result.

There are a few pictures attached below to show the project we will be creating. You will each take a part of this project.

1. 1)  You will need to trace, in pencil, the heart on your board.

2. 2)  Someone else will use a hammer and place the small nails along the traced heart

   line.

3. 3)  Someone else will start stringing the yarn from one nail to another and this step will

   be repeated many times until the shape of a heart appears. Everyone can take turns

   with this step until it is complete.

4. 4)  Once complete, your family will take this project to your special person! 😉 Tell

   them why you chose them to receive your artwork.

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Tuesday- Love Through Acts of Service
Materials: Jar, popsicle sticks (10 for each jar), markers, and decorations for your jars

This is a love language that takes the burden away from someone else. This can be expressed in ways such as doing chores around the house, making dinner for your family, taking the dog for a walk or holding the door for someone. This can also be expressed by going out as a family.

Each member of the family will create a jar with 10 popsicle sticks. First, you will decorate your jar with your name and stickers. Then, you will list a chore on each popsicle stick and decorate your sticks. Place them into your jar. Once daily, choose one stick, and do that chore to help your family out. Each member of the family should do this daily to emphasize teamwork and encourage working as a family to get things accomplished.

You can do an extra jar for when you are bored. You can make these sticks something fun for the family to do together such as: shopping, movie night, baking, gardening, game night etc.

Self-Love Language Through Acts of Service: can also be expressed as therapy for yourself, acts of kindness, making a schedule to keep tasks organized, and cleaning your room.

Wednesday- Love Expressed Through Quality Time

Materials: You will need paper, the template (or create a template) for your comic strip,

pencils, colored pencils and you will need to talk with your family to complete this project.

Spending time together is not always quality time. Sometimes we are preoccupied with game systems, cell phones, social media and other forms of distractions that tend to occur in our lives. Quality time is when you are engaging with your family and holding conversations or doing things together that you all enjoy (without the distractions).

Today, we will be making comics of things you enjoy doing with your family. This can be anything from cooking, shopping, reading, family game night etc. Use your imagination to create this comic strip. Each member of the family should participate in completing this project. Take turns with ideas, drawing, and writing. There are 2 blank templates attached for your use, or you can create your own template.

Self-Love Language: This love language can be expressed as spending time alone to do your favorite hobbies, shopping, meditation, yoga, going out to eat alone, or just relaxing.

Thursday- Love Through Gift Giving

Materials: Large sheet of white paper, colored sheets of paper cut into thin strips to roll, glue, and sequins or decorations of your choice. You will need to choose someone in your family that will receive this project when it is complete.

Love through gift giving are things that reflect your thoughtfulness and effort. If your family member and you have had an argument, you can write an apology note. You can make birthdays, anniversaries and special days even more special with favorite surprises and treats.

Self-Love Through Gift Giving: This can be expressed through treating yourself by purchasing things that make you happy: craft supplies, trips, new outfit, haircut, investing in yourself.

For this activity you will be making rolled paper hearts to give to someone in your family. You can use any colors you would like and create your heart however you would like. Use your imagination to make spirals, curls and extras.

Friday- Love Through Physical Touch

Materials: you will need your family members and the templates that are attached to this lesson. Today is for practicing mindfulness, relaxation skills, proper breathing techniques, and yoga positioning.

You will start out by reviewing the Yoga templates attached. You will take some time with your family to practice the positions and relax your body and mind. You will need a quiet space, free of distractions. Slowly go through the poses as they are numbered. You can repeat them as many times as you would like.

NOTE: There are Yoga videos created by Lacee Kidwell on PositiveValuesNetwork.com that you can watch and do with her.

Love through physical touch can be expressed by hugs, hand holding, cheek kisses or sitting together to watch a movie.

Self-Love through Physical Touch- This can be expressed in ways such as getting a massage, going to the spa, swimming, stretching, exercising, physical activity, or yoga. These are things that you enjoy doing and helps you to focus on your physical being.

SEND PROJECT PICTURES TO: amanda@morganpartnership.org 😊 OR Amanda.knepper@k12.wv.us

Please Access PositiveValuesNetwork.com for more links, videos, and art projects.

I hope you have a great weekend!! If you have a fun idea, please let me know so that I can incorporate them into another fun activity for your family!

Thank you for your participation, Ms. Mandi, MSW- Intern

🌿 🍎 Wellness Wednesday, Week 26, 😃 Care - cuidar March 17, 2021

PositiveValuesNetwork shares WELLNESS WEDNESDAY and WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE POSITIVE ACTIONS! In the classroom, at home or work, and virtual school, all use Positive Actions to focus on community well being. PAWsitive Partners join us each Wednesday for a moment to focus on physical health by following School Therapist, Lacee Kidwell, in gentle stretches and mindfulness. Opposite weeks take a look at healthy eating for healthy bodies lead by WVU Extension Office Family Nutritionist, Amie Tutor. The new Positive Value Word: CARING and in Spanish, CUIDANDO, as we learn all about our PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL, and EMOTIONAL WELLNESS. Positive Actions to develop EMOTIONAL WELLNESS with that "good ole GOLDEN RULE" for CARING/CUIDANDO are: 😀 SMILE🤓 🧠 SHARE📕 😍.CARE 🎸 🧘🏽 SERVE OTHERS💐 🌻 HELP📚 🎨.BE NICE 🎸 🛠 Change the World 🌎 Providing evidence based curriculum for K-12 to promote positive actions, wellness, mental health, prevention, and positive choices leading to student achievement; for online, in the classroom, virtual/remote learning, and more! Talking about emotions and connecting with others is a positive action. PositiveValuesNetwork.com: Celebrating our uniqueness and build relationships based on our diversity! Weekly Positive Actions are available for grades k-12! Subscribe to: PositiveValuesNetwork.com Daily Dose: positiveactionsmcp.blogspot.com On Instagram @positiveactions.mcp Subscribe to Youtube: youtube.com/user/hottfamily6​​​​​​​​​​​ Join the free APP on Apple Store and GooglePlay #PositiveValuesNetwork​​​​​​​​​​​ #SEL​​​​​​​​​​​ #MentalHealth​​​

🎙Positive Podcast 🥳 Intellectual Wellness 🍎 Remembering Jeanne Mozier fo...

Honoring an inspiration this week, we take a trip to Morgan County where a woman fostered a new feeling of home, of community. Hear how arts and education not only inspire a generation of young mountaineers but also continues to speak to children today and future MoCo neighbors that chose to settle here much like its' namesake, Daniel Morgan. Today's Positive Podcast is called "INTELLECTUAL WELLNESS: REMEMBERING JEANNE MOZIER AND KIDS DROP SOME KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DANIEL MORGAN". This segment is dedicated to our shining star, Jeanne Mozier, who passed away on Thanksgiving, 2020, and her enormous love for her neighbors....you!

FAMILY AER THERAPY, Day 3, Summer Fun!

Today we are going to embrace “letting ourselves be free.” Use the 'wrong' hand. If you're left-handed, put your paint-brush in your right hand, and if you're right-handed, put it in your left. It'll feel awkward and you won't be able to paint as precisely as you can with your dominant hand. This lack of co-ordination also means that you can't get into that automatic paint mode where your brain says "I know what an apple [for example] looks like" and you paint an idealistic apple rather than the one in front of you. You can also use objects to paint with like a Q-tip, small rocks, blades of grass, sticks etc. Thing you normally wouldn’t choose to paint with. Be as creative as you would like to be.

 (PLEASE SEND YOUR CREATIONS TO amanda@morganpartnership.org WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED THIS PROJECT) 😊