8/5/2023 0 Comments Stuck thinking rock brain![]() Posted in Social Thinking, Superflex, The Destroyer of Fun (The D.O.F.), Unthinkables Leave a comment One More Week of Glassman! He learns in the end that it’s better to be a flexible thinker that does not ruin the game and lose friends, than a rigid thinker who lets the D.O.F. In this story, Howard has a very difficult time defeating the D.O.F., an Unthinkable that makes Howard become overly competitive and take the fun out of the game for his friends. Wigglebottom Learns About Sportsmanship: Winning Isn’t Everything, Howard learns a valuable lesson about the impact the Destroyer of Fun (The D.O.F.) can have on the thoughts other people have about him. To do this, I’ll be bringing back a favorite character that many of the students know and love: Howard B. We’ll be spending just one week talking about this unthinkable, the thoughts it makes us have, and strategies to defeat this Unthinkable. The next Unthinkable the students are I will be reading about is the Destroyer of Fun (The D.O.F.). We may even have time to begin creating our own unthinkables (think The Lying Lion, an unthinkable a former student of mine created after identifying their own challenges with stretching the truth!), and begin learning about the Thinkables, the counterparts to the Unthinkable characters/challenges. While there are still several unthinkables we won’t be able to talk about this year, they will certainly come up next year as I visit the students in their next classrooms! To help students understand this unthinkable, and ways to defeat the thoughts it makes us have, the students will read: ![]() Energy Hare-y is the unthinkable that gives people too much energy for the situation. The last unthinkable the students will learn about while I’m away is Energy Hare-y. Beatrice Doesn’t Want To by Laura Numeroff.When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry by Sophie Bang.The Chocolate Covered Cookie Tantrum by Deborah Blumenthal.Wigglebottom Learns It’s Ok to Back Away by Howard Binkow To help students learn about Rock Brain and strategies to defeat these thoughts, the students will read six different books: Rock Brain is the unthinkable that makes us get stuck on our own ideas. The second unthinkable the students will learn about while I’m away is Rock Brain. Bootsie Barker Bites by Barbara Bottner. ![]() Wigglebottom Learns About Bullies by Howard Binkow ![]()
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