Welcome to Well-Being - Book A - Junior Infants - Meet Mo & Ko - Pupil Book - New/Revised Edition

Welcome to Well-Being - Book A - Junior Infants - Meet Mo & Ko - Pupil Book - New/Revised Edition

The Welcome to Well-Being whole-school programme is designed to enhance children’s well-being across all dimensions – social, emotional, spiritual, physical and mental. Enhancing children’s well-being can lead to a wide variety of other successful outcomes, including improved academic performance, stronger relationships, and greater resilience. (Waters, 2011; Park & Peterson, 2008).

The theme of the Welcome to Well-Being programme is that two little aliens called Mo and Ko arrive from the planet Zo to help children to feel happy, strong, kind and brave, loving and well. Each week they introduce children to a new idea and they set a challenge for the children to try it out for a week – at home as well as at school. By default, the characters Mo & Ko are gender-neutral – but a gender-specific edition is also available (for gender-specific versions, please order HERE).

Each level includes a Teacher Guide that provides 10 structured lessons with clear teaching guidance and engaging classroom activities. Accompanying the Teacher Guide is a comprehensive Digital Companion Page (DCP) containing PowerPoints for every lesson, videos, posters, additional classroom resources and more. The accompanying but separate Pupil Activity Book allows children to record their reflections and develop a personal portfolio of their strengths, while a parental pull-out guide explains each week’s learning and encourages home–school connection.

Welcome to Well-Being – BOOK A: Meet Mo & Ko!

Specific Aims of Book A:

1. To increase children’s understanding of specific emotions including happiness, sadness, anger, pride and bravery
2. To encourage children to accept and express all of their emotions in a positive way
3. To provide children with the opportunity to up-regulate the following positive emotions – joy, happiness, gratitude, serenity (calm), pride and humour
4. To provide students with the opportunity to regulate and express their feelings of sadness and anger
5. To promote feeling of self-confidence and self-worth
6. To promote self-efficacy through giving children strategies to deal with their strong emotions
7. To develop pro-social relationships through encouraging acts of kindness and appropriate expression of emotions

Lessons in Book A:

• Lesson 1: It’s good to be me
• Lesson 2: All feelings are OK
• Lesson 3: I’m ready for my big feelings
• Lesson 4: Spread happiness
• Lesson 5: It’s cool to be calm
• Lesson 6: It’s OK to feel sad
• Lesson 7: I’m proud of myself
• Lesson 8: It’s OK to feel angry
• Lesson 9: I can be brave
• Lesson 10: It’s good to be me