The Beaming Bright, You’re a Shining Light Lesson Plans for parents, teachers and caregivers has over 101 social and emotional learning activities where children learn through playful, imaginative interactions.

Each activity builds upon a “Story Theme” to help children create a strong foundation of inner strength while building positive relationships for themselves and with others.

The more children listen to the eleven delightful stories and experience the activities included in the Lesson Plans, the more they will recognize their personal value, strengths and abilities.

Ongoing research from the Human Early Learning Partnership (H.E.L.P) at UBC shows that how children feel about themselves from birth to age six will greatly influence their behavior and how they interact in society.

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”  Aristotle.

Lesson Plans In Action provides examples of how parents, teachers and caregivers have used the Beaming Bright, You’re a Shining Light Storybook and Lesson Plans in a home or classroom environment.  This social and emotional learning component contains new activities, information and insights not included in the original printing of the Lesson Plans. 

Many examples of the children’s artwork are included to demonstrate how the children have learned the social and emotional concepts.  For example, in the Breathing Free In Action, children’s artwork illustrates how they learned to identify and express their feelings, think more clearly and solve problems.  In the Shining Light In Action, children created “Shining Stars” and “Bookmarks” to help them to understand the concepts, “I Am Creative” and “I Can Create Happy Moments.”

These are just two of the many examples of children’s artwork in the eleven Lesson Plans In Action series. 

This set of 30 posters can be used to reinforce the positive attitudes of social and emotional learning.

Research has shown that a child’s belief system is well established by the age of two and continues to be formed in their early years.  Therefore, repeating the statements on these posters often will help children to believe in themselves, self-regulate their emotions and learn to love and appreciate themselves and others.  These skills will help children develop a cooperative attitude and will positively influence their behavior and how they interact with others.  To reinforce the learning concepts, read each statement and encourage the children to talk about how they feel and draw pictures of their personal experiences.

These 65 Lesson Plan Play Characters can be used to reinforce the positive attitudes of social and emotional learning.

The children can have fun playing with these characters while you read the stories. Through the use of their imagination the children can also create their own journeys with the characters. Teachers are encouraged to model and reinforce the social and emotional learning concepts contained in the Beaming Bright, You’re a Shining Light Storybook and Lesson Plans. These concepts will help children learn to self-regulate their emotions and develop cooperative attitudes that will positively influence their behavior. Research has shown that a child’s belief system is well established by the age of two and continues to be formed in their early years.

The Big Book offers parents, teachers and caregivers an opportunity to make large Big Books of the Beaming Bright, You’re a Shining Light Storybook.

A printing company can make 12” X 12” colored copies of each page.  The background pages can then be placed into plastic sleeves or a photo album.  Each of the Storybook Characters can be cut out and laminated.  As the stories are read to the children, the children can have lots of fun attaching the characters to the background pages.