Bringing The OK Book to Life

Community:
OK Family Challenge (i.e. invite families to try to be OK at together and photo it: skipping, card game, tower of shoes, gardening, etc)
OK Wall (i.e. use school bulletin board and invite staff, students, and families to add a sticky note stating what they are OK at)
OK Compliment Cards (i.e. make kindness card for other students that keeps focus on effort rather than skill "I like that you're OK at...")
OK Goal Starters (i.e. students set simple goal "I'm OK at..... I want to get better at....", revisit weekly)

Dance:
Follow the Leader OK (i.e. use music and scarves for colour and fun, students can parade behind child leader following their moves)
OK Freeze Dance (i.e. dance freely, when music stops, teacher calls freeze action like "OK swimmer!")
OK Wiggler (i.e. dance to upbeat music with different wiggling body parts, it's OK! "wiggle hands, wiggle knees...:)

Literacy:
OK Comic (i.e. students draw short 3-4 frame comic of OK doing something then add words to make it a comic strip)
OK Speech Bubbles (i.e. "I'm OK at...." and "someday I might..." paired with drawings)
Our OK Story (i.e. each child contributes one page to a class bound book for a read aloud of their own)
OK Story Telling (i.e. beginning-middle-end prompts for different activities, have student tell the story with each part)
OK Shared Writing Chart (i.e. class creates list of OK expectations like: it's okay to try new things/ask for more time/need help etc.)
OK Verb Wall (i.e. students identify words that are actions in the story, learn to spell, create wall: climb, skip, dive, catch etc.)

Numeracy:
OK Patterns (i.e. skip-skip-jump=AAB, wiggle-climb-wiggle-climb=ABAB, jump-toss-balance=ABC)
OK Tightrope (i.e. make a 'tightrope' out of chalk/rope/sticks and measure with other loose objects: "our tightrope is --- pinecones long!")
OK Graphs (i.e. pictograph or tally graph of answers for the class for questions like "I'm an OK painter" etc.)
OK Dice (i.e. create OK dice, one with actions: OK, jump, skip etc., second with numbers: how many times to do action; keep tally to add)
OK Estimations (i.e. jars of items, students guess, then take items out to add)
OK Number Lines (i.e. start at 0: respond to teacher calls "jump 3 forward, step 1 back, hop 4 forward" - what number land at? 6)

Outdoor:
OK Comparisons (i.e. biggest/smallest rock, smoothest/bumpiest leaf, heavy/light pinecone...)
OK Treasure Map (i.e. find a item near/behind/under/beside places outside, draw a map showing found item makes in correct location)
OK Nature Hunt (i.e. find natural items that are OK like bent twig, lumpy rock, wilted flower, ripped leaf, etc.)
OK Kites (i.e.  make  simple kites and go outside to try to fly them!)
OK Fishing (i.e. explore puddles or gardens to see what we can 'catch'/find)
OK Loose Part Building (i.e. build different items from the story using only loose parts: baseball glove, kite, letters OK, etc.)
OK Play (i.e. free time play with open ended objects that are OK to play with like logs, crates, buckets, ropes, tires, etc.)

Music:
OK Song (i.e. sing as call and response: teacher calls: "I'm OK!"; students respond "You're OK!", all say "We're All O.K!"
OK Rythm (i.e. clap or tap simple OK patterns for students to echo like: O-K-O-K, O-O-K, slow-slow-fast-fast, soft-LOUD, etc.)
OK Sound Effects (i.e. retell the story using sounds like scritch-scritch for climbing, swish-swish for swinging, woooosh! for diving, etc.)
OK Body Percussion (i.e. use body percussion movements for each phrase like tap-tap-stomp for skip, slide-clap for dive, etc.)
OK Conducting (i.e. let student be the conductor of the class doing an activity, they conduct: stop, go, fast, slow, quiet, loud, etc.)