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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2016 © 2016 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 32, No. 5 Bullying makes playgrounds, schools and even neighborhoods feel unsafe for some children. This week, in honor of Martin Luther King’s message of peace, Kid Scoop looks at ways children can help themselves and others be safe on the playground. 5 B Have a friend give you each type of word to fill in the blanks. Then read the story aloud! My friend Lawrence had the hiccups while getting a haircut. I was joking and teasing with him about it and said his haircut made him look like a _________ _____________. You can’t tell a bully by his or her looks. You can tell who is a bully by the way he or she acts. Here are some of the things a bully might do: • Hit, kick or push to hurt people. • Call others bad names, tease or scare people. • Say mean things about someone. • Grab someone else’s stuff. • Leave a kid out of a game on purpose. • Threaten another kid. It was only a joke, but it made him pretty angry. To make it up to him, I invited him to see the ________________ with my The bully is not wearing a hat. The bully isn’t wearing a striped shirt. The bully is not wearing glasses. Which kid is the bully? What else have you seen bullies do? Standards Link: Health: Identify support systems. A E N V “I’m going to punch you!” _____________ ___________ on the trapeze. Hey, shorty! Shouldn’t you be back in preschool? Bullying is a problem in schools all around the world. Kid Scoop found information from anti-bullying programs in Scotland, Australia and Canada as well as the United States. D when he saw a _____________ Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow written directions. Standards Link: Health: Make decisions about feelings and safety issues that support mental and emotional health. FINISH family. Lawrence cheered up Bully Clues: “Your clothes are ugly!” Many, many children are bullied everyday. These children can feel lost in a maze made up of bad feelings – sad, stressed, embarrassed, nervous, depressed, helpless. These feelings can make it hard to do well in school and to make friends. Experts say that there is something that can help a child who has been bullied. To find out what that is, complete the maze. The letters along the correct path of the maze spell the answer! I Bullying hurts. It hurts a lot. Bullying can make kids feel sick. It can make them not want to go to school. And no one likes to watch other kids getting picked on. No one likes a bully. A shiny ____________ drove Stan is the shortest boy in the fourth grade. Greg, the tallest boy, picks on him every day. Abby and Eric are tired of watching this. What could Stan do or say? What could Eric do or say? What could Abby do or say? What does everyone want Greg to do? out of it. My dad bought us B Make a list of people you can talk to if you are being bullied. Cut the list out and keep it with you. R F C “You can’t play with us!” A START M Anti-Bully Armor When you feel good about yourself, you’re less likely to be hurt by what others say. Take a little time to build up your anti-bully armor. What is anti-bully armor? Feeling good about yourself! Look through the newspaper for words and pictures that show something that is good about you. Glue these onto a sheet of paper titled: What’s good about ME! Post it where you can see it everyday. into the center ring and a dozen crazy ____________ climbed each a bag of hot _____________ and a balloon shaped like a _______. When we got home, I apologized again to Lawrence. “It’s okay,” he said. “I can’t stay mad when I think about the ___________ __________ we saw today!” Standards Link: Grammar: Understand and use nouns, adjectives and verbs correctly. Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word IGNORE in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row. Some spaces have been filled in for you. Standards Link: Health: Develop and use effective coping strategies. K Standards Link: Health: Identify ways to seek assistance if concerned, threatened or abused. Pretend not to hear. Instead listen to your own thoughts and tell yourself, “That’s their problem, not mine.” and “I’m OK just the way I am.” Find a safe person to talk to. Make a list of people you could talk to about being bullied or about times you have seen others being bullied. A bully scribbled over some of the words in our list of tips! Find the missing word or words in each tip. Be a buddy. Kids who are alone are more likely to be bullied. Make a plan to walk with a friend wherever you think you might meet a bully. Don’t bully back. Getting angry and fighting back sometimes is just what the bully wants. It’s dangerous too, because someone could get hurt. fighting friend mine person times thoughts Standards Link: Health: Develop protective factors that help foster resiliency. PLAYGROUND Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop PEACE stories and activities. BULLIES P E F E E L I N G S HURTS D N U O R G Y A L P NERVOUS THREATEN L S H N A E M A C D HELP I U T H R E A T E N BUILD U O A E E S O E A E FRIEND B V P C N T T A R I TEASE ARMOR H R A P L R A S M R GAME S E I L L U B E O F FEELINGS P N P L E H Y G R O PATH Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognizing identical MEAN words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. TEASE The verb tease means to make fun of or annoy. Dad told Jeremy not to tease his little sister. Try to use the word tease in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members. Kids Help Kids Bullies in the News Look through the newspaper for an article that portrays a person or a group of people who are hurting other people. Could this also be called bullying? Identify who in the article you think is the bully and who is being bullied. 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