Book 4.3 Personal Awareness & Responsibility

Personal Awareness and Responsibility

Adult definition: Personal Awareness and Responsibility involves understanding the connections between personal and social behaviour and well-being; it encourages people to make constructive and ethical decisions and act on them.

Student definition: Someone who is able to seek help when needed, act on their decisions, and stand up for themselves. They take ownership of their choices and actions. They keep trying in difficult situations, and understand how their actions affect themselves and others. They keep themselves healthy and active, and they make choices that help them stay safe.

Statement 3

I follow rules that keep me safe.

If you are implementing the program twice per week, that will allow you to complete the 20 statements within 10 weeks and allow for the program to be implemented all the way through three times per school year. Therefore, three books on video have been provided. One per season - Fall, Winter and Spring. If you are implementing the program less, then it is your choice of which books you wish to use.

Watch the accompanying storybook I Can Be Safe A First Look at Safety, and How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe read aloud on video.

For additional storybook videos on this specific statement go to the Appendix at the end of this book to watch read aloud Staying Safe on video.

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Recommended reading for I follow rules that keep me safe.

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Suggested: Fall

5 min. 41 sec.

How do you see yourself? Are your behaviours, actions and words similar to that of a character in the storybook?

I Can Be Safe A First Look at Safety
by Pat Thomas
Barron’s Educational Series Inc.,
Hauppauge, New York, 2003
ISBN 0-7641-2460-9

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Recommended reading for I follow rules that keep me safe.

Press the arrows to expand the video to full page.

Suggested: Fall

How do you see yourself? Are your behaviours, actions and words similar to that of a character in the storybook?

5 min. 41 sec.

Officer Buckle and Gloria
by Pat Thomas
Barron’s Educational Series Inc.,
Hauppauge, New York, 2003
ISBN 0-7641-2460-9

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Recommended reading for I follow rules that keep me safe.

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Suggested: Spring

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3 min. 09 sec.

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How do you see yourself? Are your behaviours, actions and words similar to that of a character in the storybook?

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How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe
by Jane Yolen
Scholastic Inc
New York 2015
ISBB 9780439241045

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I follow rules that keep me safe.

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I try to always follow the safety rules I know.

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How do you see yourself? Are your behaviours, actions and words similar to that of any of the people in these pictures?

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I follow rules that keep me safe.

Sometimes I take risks that could be unsafe.

How do you see yourself? Are your behaviours, actions and words similar to that of any of the people in these pictures?

I make unsafe choices because I don’t think I could get hurt or hurt others.

I follow rules that keep me safe.

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How do you see yourself? Are your behaviours, actions and words similar to that of any of the people in these pictures?

I follow rules that keep me safe.

Create your own skits with your class or watch the video shorts below that depict the above statement with an interpretation of the three emoji face choices.

Quick Review Video Shorts

How do you see yourself? Are your behaviours, actions and words similar to that of a character in one of the short videos?

I follow rules that keep me safe.

Discussion Questions

1. How do you see yourself? Are your actions, behaviours, and words similar to the characters and/or people that you saw in the attached pictures, storybook(s) and/or video(s)?

2. Would you change how you usually act or behave, or the things you say when being asked to follow rules for the safety of yourself and others?

3. What actions, words or behaviours should someone follow when it comes to obeying safety rules? Is it okay to think about your safety and the safety of others before doing anything that could be unsafe? Is it okay to get help from an adult first to find out if something is safe or not? Is it okay to sometimes take small risks even if it might be a little bit unsafe? What safety rules do you sometimes break? Do you believe that while other people might get hurt, it will probably never happen to you so taking risks that are dangerous is okay to do?

Personal Awareness & Responsibility

Statement 3

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Use a yellow crayon to colour in one face which best describes you.

I follow rules that keep me safe.

How do you see yourself?

Choose an answer that is honest and best describes you. Only you will be judging your own answer.