Grade Prep and 1: Ready, Set, Go!

Grade Prep and 1: Ready, Set, Go!

This introductory early learning program contains activities, games, wall charts and digital story books. The hard copy resource is The Get Happier Toolbox.

Children learn the guidelines and language for working together cooperatively, and how to recognise and begin to self regulate feelings constructively.

The program introduces the Dragster family, who will guide the students through social and emotional learning during the primary school years.

The resources are:

  • The Get Happier Toolbox
  • Open Road Thoughts to Get Happier Card Set

and the following downloadable resources.

  • Ready, Set, Go! – A Comprehensive Teacher Guide
  • Twelve Ready Set Go Storybooks- Powerpoint slides
  • Twelve New Emergent Text Beginning Readers- Powerpoint slides
  • The Get Happier Toolbox 20 Four Wheels to Get Happier cards.
  • Open Road Posters for Working Together and Beginning the School Year
  • My Open Road Colouring Pages

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Resources

Ready, Set, Go! – A Comprehensive Teacher Guide

An easy, step by step guide to implementing the program in your classroom or group. The Teacher Guide contains:

  • Introduction to the Get Happier School Project
  • Lesson plans for the Open Roads Posters for Working Together and Beginning Your School Year
  • Lesson plans to accompany the Ready, Set, Go! digital stories.
  • Games, Activities and Problem Solving With the Dragsters
  • Mindfulness Games

Twelve Ready, Set, Go! Story Books – Powerpoint Slides

These fun and engaging 12 digital storybooks are designed to be used with the whole class group or small groups, and are a key part of the curriculum in this program. The story books introduce children to the Dragster family and their friends. The themes of ‘family’ and ‘getting along together’ provide an introduction to school and its expectations for learning. It creates a natural transition from home to school as children talk about family, friends and relationships, how to solve problems and get happier. These books are also frequently used at higher grade levels, especially in relation to protective behaviours and managing emotions.

Twelve New Emergent Text Beginning Readers – Powerpoint slides

These engaging 12 new digital emergent text storybooks are designed to be used by beginning readers who want to read the text by themselves. Adapted by staff at Mudgeeraba Special School and the Get Happier Team, they provide a delightful visual introduction to the dragsters and the themes of the Get Happier program. They are different from the Ready Set Go storybooks, as they reinforce and build reading skills, as well as emphasise the key messages about how to get happier.

 

Open Road Thoughts to Get Happier Cards

This new set of 10 powerful affirmation and problem solving cards are simple to use, and provide affirmations and processes for helping children learn the skills to solve their own problems, and at the same time develop a growth mindset. They come with an instruction booklet.

The Get Happier Toolbox 20 4 Wheels to Get Happier Cards

A powerpoint of the 20 feelings cards from the The Get Happier Toolbox showing the dragsters in different situations and with different feelings. Use these digital cards to teach students how to understand and manage their feelings, play games, tell stories and problem solve.

Open Road Posters for Working Together and Beginning the School Year

These fabulous posters are the basis for effectively working together, and are introduced at the beginning of each school year. This resource is available to print.

My Open Road Colouring Pages

At the conclusion of each Open Road lesson, the children are given a colouring page of the poster to decorate for themselves with colour, sparkle or mixed media. These are also designed to develop literacy skills. This resource is available to print.