The Tikkun Project

Invite students to share their "Wellbeing Toolkits" they completed with their families.  As students list actions, add them to the appropriate list(s) they started in the previous lesson.

Things that:

• Help their bodies feel healthy

• Help their brains feel ready for learning

• Help their hearts feel happy

Explain that a great plan is:

• Helpful - It helps the body, brain or heart feel better

• Doable - we can do it with our skills and with the time and materials we have

• Lasting - It helps for a long time.

Remind students about the Core Text, Ve’ahavta L’reyacha Kamocha

"Love" (hands on heart)

"your neighbor" (point to friend)

"like yourself" (hug self).

Remind students that they are going to try to make a plan to care for others as we care for ourselves.

We have a list of ways we take care of ourselves, but we need to decide which of these things are helpful for some people and which are helpful for many people.

Review each of the strategies that "Help their bodies feel healthy" and ask students whether each would be helpful for them personally. Keep a running tally of the number of students who agree that it would be helpful.

Students consider the tallied responses and categorize specific strategies into the following categories:

• Strategies that work for nobody

• Strategies that work for only 1 or 2 people

• Strategies that work for lots of people

• Strategies that work for everyone

Explain: When we make a plan to care for our neighbors (Ve’ahavta L’reyacha), we should consider the strategies that work for many of us because they may be helpful for many other people.

Repeat the process with strategies related to keeping their brains and hearts feel well.