Students will be able to practice heartfulness and discuss how they can be caring with their words and deeds.
Introduction
(10 minutes)
Join students together in a circle, seated or standing.
Introduce your completed puppet to the class.
Have the bear puppet ask the class, "What does it mean to be caring?"
Have the bear ask, "How does it feel when someone else cares for you?"
Ask, "What are some caring and kind words to say to others?"
Write these words on the board.
Explain that you will play a song about caring and that the students will walk or dance around the room. When the music stops each student will stop and say a caring and kind word to another student.
Have the bear puppet model for students how to dance to the music and then to pause when the music stops and to say caring words to the class.
Play the "Caring Song" and ask the class to stand up to move around the room.
Pause the music and ask students to get together with one other friend and to say a few kind and caring words to them.
Continue to play and pause the music to share caring words two to three more times.
Bring the class back together in a circle.
Ask, "What was that like? How did it feel to say and hear caring words?"