Plan and reflect
Plan My Drawing
Before you draw: choose your idea, shapes and colors. After you draw: look back and set a goal.
Thinking sheet · Plan and reflect
Build a Tiny Habit
Pick one tiny habit, like drinking water or reading a page, and track it for two weeks.
- Grades
- 2–5
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Topic
- Plan and reflect
- Kids practice
- goal setting, self-monitoring, persistence
What kids do
“Big changes start with tiny habits. Pick one and track it!”
- My tiny habit:
- I’ll do it right after I…
- Color a square each day you do it
- Me doing my habit
- What made it easy or hard:
How to run it
- Keep it tiny: two minutes or less.
- Link it to something already done every day (after brushing teeth…).
- Missed a day? Just start again tomorrow.
Talk about it
- Why do tiny habits work?
- What habit do your grown-ups have?
- How will you remember?
Take it further
After nine days, make the habit a little bigger.
Pairs well with
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