Dear Teachers

In the beginning of the session we can have recapitulation about the previous knowledge of
life skills with some perspective building activities like
What if the sky had two moons at the same time?
What if the water on the earth is finished?
What if you are an ant?
These are various situation to think on , which helps in developing empathy, critical
thinking, creative thinking along with interpersonal relations in students
Divide the class in two five to six groups and ask them to work on the different areas of the
central theme like
1. advantages,
2. disadvantages,
3. What feelings they will go through ( fear or strenghts)
4. How they can work towards the betterment
At the end call the groups for the presentation and also tell others that how this
activity changed their thinking process today.
Activity 2.
As we know our almanac is quite informative, so we can choose some of the topics
from our almanac for the classroom discussions during life skills period. For
example: discipline with responsibilities, anti bullying POCSO, etc. all the topics can
be easily related with the use of life skills in their lives.
Activity 3: Positive Bombardment
Theme: This activity will help the students to remain positive under stressful situations and
also develop healthy relations among peer group.
Material Required:
blank sheets, pens, black board, Round Tables and chalk of different colors
Mode: whole Class, pairing
Life skills to be enhanced: Management of stress , Interpersonal relations, Self Awareness,
Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, managing emotions, etc.
Objective:

To enhance the ability of diverting mind in a positive directions.

To enhance the ability to understand one self.
To develop healthy interpersonal relations among the students.

Process
1. All the students are required to sit in a circle with one blank sheet and pen.

2. Students will write their name on the sheet given to them.

3. Then they will start passing their sheet to the person sitting next to them (preferably from
the right side) and everyone has to write one compliment for the person whose sheet has
come to them one by one.
4. Just like this, process will be continued till the chain has been completed and every one
will get their sheet back with the compliments written on it by all the classmates.
5. Students are not supposed to write ant comment on anyones sheet.
6. Like this every student will get n number of compliments written on their sheets.
7. Then voluntarily students are asked to share their compliments with the whole class if
they want.
8. After the activity importance and implementation of life skills were discussed in detail to
motivate the students for using them at maximum in their daily lifr circumstances.

Key Notes
When you play this activity , you are focusing entirely on your goals not on the
thousands of thoughts we allow to swirl through our heads during times of stress.
As you play, your stress hormones drop, reversing the negative effects of anger and stress
on the body and allowing you to feel pleasure, involvement, and peace.
this activity will help them to remove their stresses and also divert their mind in right
direction
From this activity students develops aesthetic intelligence and start appreciating each
other.
Their self concept is enhances and interpersonal relations are improved.

Activity 4: Laughter Therapy

Theme: This activity will allow students to understand the importance of laughter and
smile in life and will also strengthen the ability to deal with the stress effectively.

Objective:
To feel good about yourself and your surroundings.
With laughter therapy, laugh off your worries

Mode: Whole class will be involved together

Life Skills To Be enhanced: Management of Stress, Interpersonal relations, Problem solving,
etc.
Process:
1. Teacher introduces an idea that laughter yoga is an excellent stress management tool and
explains its benefits. Moreover it requires lots of fun and child-like playfulness.
2. Students are asked to sit on their respective places comfortably with enough space between
them.

3.One demonstration should be shown by the teacher facilitator where he/she is laughing as HOHO-HA-HA in his/her loudest voice continuously for 15-20 seconds. He/she will be raising her
hands also at the time of laughter.
4. After this He/ she would be facilitating the students for the same.
5. This exercise can be repeated several times in the class.
6. Then students are asked to close their eyes and feel the positivity inside and around the body.
7. Allow time for students to debrief and share their experience or what they felt about the technique.
This can be done in pairs, small groups or sharing with whole class.
Guiding questions can be:

What was the state of mind before doing this activity?

How does your body feel when you are happy or positive?
Would you like to do this activity alone or in group?
Would you like to do this activity with your family?

KEY NOTES:
Laughter is a great medicine. Apart from bringing positivity in life, it has several other
benefits such as:
Weight Loss Aid
Strengthens the Immune System
Its a Stress Buster
Feel-good Factor
Improves Quality of Life
Anti-aging Formula
Activity5 : Movement to Music Freeze Dance
(Physical Activity)
Theme: Gross motor activities provide stress reduction for young students.
Material Required:
Music (5 to15 minutes of music)
Note: It is best to use instrumental music/no lyrics.
Time Required: 40 mins
Mode: Individually as well as groups
Life Skills to be enhanced: Self Control on emotions, creative thinking, self awareness, and
interpersonal relations, etc
Objective:
To give them opportunity to explore themselves and realize their potential
To develop self control and management.
To make them aware about another source (i.e. Dance) of ventilation of stress and
outbursts.
Process:

Students will be called in groups and ask to move/ dance to match the tempo, beat and rhythm of
the music. When the music stops, students FREEZE, when music resumes, students continue to
move/dance to match the music.
1. If necessary, arrange classroom to provide ample space for the activity.
2. Students take a place in the designated movement/dance area with
sufficient personal space so as not to run into other students OR students
may be positioned in a circle and move in the same direction around the
circle.
3. Review activity rules with students:
Move to match the music
FREEZE when the music stops
When the music starts again, move to match the music
Activity involves only movement, no voices
4. Start the music.
5. Stop music at timely intervals.
6. Note suggested sequence of music; always end with slow, calming music
7. Teacher may follow-up by using Movement to Match Music at other times to
relieve tension, stress in the classroom. Make connection for students between
regular physical activity, health and stress reduction
At the end students will be asked to introspect about their level of self control, and the effect of
the presence of others on their self control, and the homework can be given to explore the
strategies to improve self control.
Key Points:

Stress is the key reason for many health issues. Excessive stress disturbs the function of
organs and imbalances all hormonal systems. It also invites life-threatening diseases.

Dance helps you to get rid of stress as it boosts your self-confidence, increases social
interaction, and makes new friends. It also energizes and refreshes you. So, dance
regularly and let your worries just flow away!

It is the best exercise and work out option. It helps in increasing and building strength or
stamina to a high extent.

Activity 6. Responsibility towards your choices

Whatever consequences you face in your life (good or bad) are the end products of choices
made by you in the beginning. So start thinking about the consequences first before any
plan of action.
Make a general discussion in the class about the result they have got
recently and relate it with the kind of hard work they invested before. ( or
you can ask two or three students about their recent decisions and the
consequences)

Often we all have tendency to blame others in case of failures and take
credits for the success but actually we should have the courage to
confront with the failure. As it helps them to be independent, strong,
influential and visionary.
At the end relate with the life skills they have used during discussion.
Some of them can be self awareness, critical thinking and management of
stress, etc.

Activity 7. Rights with Responsibilities

Students will be asked to speak about their rights as a student or
son/daughter
(All the points should be line down on the black board)
After that they will be asked to speak out their responsibilities as a
student or son/daughter. Again writing them on the black board is must.
Now they will be asked to introspect and analyze about their demands and
supply ratio. Usually there should be balance between the two but if the
difference is more, than the situation of imbalance arises, which in turn
creates lots of problems like misunderstanding, lack of proper
communication, wrong impression, etc.
So we should think before we ask for something.

Activity 8. SWOT Analysis

Here every student will be asked to write down their strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Knowing what your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are
puts you in a powerful position for action. The SWOT analysis is not action in
itself, but its a useful tool that helps you set goals, create a detailed career
plan and act on it.
Its actually OK to have weaknesses and threats in your working life, adds
Firth. This means you can take action to rectify things. If you dont, you may
find it more difficult to develop.

By doing this activity we are developing self awareness, critical

thinking, managing emotions and communication skills among
students.

Dear Teachers
This is to bring your notice that the following students (with
special needs would require) the extra attention and cooperation
from your end. This is an effort to bring them at par with the other
students. As per the norms of CBSE they have already exempted
the difficult subjects (maximum two) and given subjects like I.T
and painting.

Looking forward for the favorable response

Principal