Right Now! (for Jax)
The book is available here and you can get bdges but I doubt they fit with the Montessori ethos!
There are 6 rights explored
To be me, the right to an identity, to hold and express your own opinions and celebrate your own beleifs.
to be happy, the right to be protected from harm, to play, to access healthcare etc
to work together, equality, fairness, teamworking and how small changes in our lifestyle can have global effects
To Learn, the right to access a suitable education and a look at why nearly 60% of the world’s children have no access to any education
To live in peace, peace of mind as well as living peacefully and the right to not live in a warzone
To be Heard, freedom of speech and the right for children’s voices to be heard.
Each section starts with an explanation of the rights and the responsibilites those rights come with. For example To Be Me starts lists the right to a "registered name and nationality, to freedom of expression, to have their identity protected, to be part of a family, to have their privacy protected, to enjoy their own culture and to practice their own feligion and language" which carries the responsibilites for us to be ourselves, to respect our heritage, to not give to pressure to conform to ideas and ideals that are not "ours" unless we actually want to (not being a fashion victim), to speak up and to encourage and support others to speak up.
I’m doing 1 section a term and spreading the activities over 3 or 4 sessions so we don’t rush through it.
Some of the activities in Aim Hi ( http://www.guidingessentials.org.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/GirlGuiding/6541)are good too, that’s a pack produced with teh WHO about what it means to be healthy.
If we ever manage to catch up with each other I could fetch them for you to look at but I suspect your weekends are rather too precious just now!
