Do You Need A DATE?

Do you have to teach Red Ribbon week activities to your kids?  Does your district give you curriculum or do you have to come up with your own?  In my district we have a list of things that the kids need to learn, but at present no curriculum that matches that list.  Every year I have my kids do these activities to build awareness, and every year I wish I would finally just make them neat and tidy into a print and go pack... Ta-Da!  My wish is granted!  

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*Brainstorm Pages

*Exit Slips

*Student Activities

*Posters

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Okay, I'm done now with my product placement.  I hope it helps you as well!  

Red Ribbon Week Decoration

A quick second post today to share my class' door decoration.

Superhero Squad!

The kids designed their own superhero and next to it they had to finish the sentence. "My name is ----. I ---- drugs with my ---- powers."

They were creative. I don't know yet if we won the contest but I do know the leadership students said they liked it.

I found the idea from Teachers Pay Teachers that 

I mentioned a couple of days ago.  

Hope you had a good day!

Red Ribbon Week

For Red Ribbon week, my school always has fun dress up days.   This year here is the list:
Monday - PJ day - Be cozy and safe, don't use drugs Tuesday - Sunglasses day - Be cool and don't use drugs Wednesday - Halloween or Orange day - Say Boo to drugs Thursday - Crazy Hat and Hair day - It's crazy to use drugs Friday - School Spirit colors day - Have spirit and don't use drugs
We had to create a door decoration and this year I found this on TPT.  I knew I had to do it with all the superhero crazed kids in my class.  

Each grade level at our school also has specific lessons that we need to cover to help reinforce the meaning behind Red Ribbon week.
For 4th grade here is our breakdown:

Lesson 1 - Organs of the body - The importance of the different ones

Lesson 2 - Dangers of Medicine

Lesson 3 - Alcohol

Lesson 4 - Tobacco

Lesson 5 - Marijuana, Cocaine, Inhalants

Lesson 6 - Advertising - How it can be misleading

Lesson 7 - Saying No
I teach these in different ways.
First, I have my kiddos make a mini book using a sheet of red construction paper folded in half with 2 sheets of copy paper folded inside.  They use one staple to hold it together.  ONE staple!!!
On the outside cover they glue the alliteration of "Red Ribbon Reflections"  and their name.
Page 1:  They do a brainstorm of what they know about being drug free.  
Page 2 & 3: Lesson 1 - Organs They draw the outline of a human body and as we talk about the importance of the different organs they draw and label.  The corresponding page then has a brainstorm list of different ways we can keep our bodies healthy.
Pages 4 & 5: Lesson 4 - Alcohol & Lesson 5 - Terrible Trio I share some facts for them to write down - especially the short and long term effects of doing these things.  I know they have heard similar things before so my goal is to scare them enough of the consequences of messing with things that can and will hurt them.
Page 6: Lesson 6 - Advertising We talk about how advertising is geared to make someone want to buy something (it also ties into our business unit) and in their books they draw an ad to be healthy.
Page 7: Lesson 7 - Say No We practice saying no to different situations, and then they write a little play in their little book to show comprehension.
Page 8 - Reflections I want to know the things they think are the most important.  They have to write me a paragraph sharing their hearts.
When the book is completed, I collect and give them a completion/participation grade.  It goes under health on the report card.
I'll update after Thursday to show how our door and booklets turned out...