Bullying Lesson: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

5^th and 6^th Grade Guidance

Reindeer Games

To keep with the Christmas theme, today in 5^th and 6^th we played reindeer games!

We used Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to discuss bullying. The goal of this lesson was to teach the differences between teasing, meanness, conflict, and bullying.

We started this lesson by playing scoot. This game is a fun way to get students up and moving while keeping them engaged on learning about bullying. I downloaded this reindeer game from Teachers Pay Teachers at one of my FAVORITE stores, The Savvy School Counselor. This game was included in the December activity packet.

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Savvy-School-Counselor

To set up the game, I cut out questions cards-1 for every student in the class. I then printed out number squares to correspond with the question cards. I set 1 question card and corresponding number on every desk. The students start at their own desk. The object of the game is for the students to “scoot” to each question in the room moving in numerical order until they are back into their own desk.

For this game, students must read the scenario on the cards and determine if the behavior is bullying or not. I played some fun Christmas to go along with the theme. Each time the music stopped, the students moved to the next desk. For a class of 16, it took about 2 Christmas songs to finish-so about 6-ish minutes.

Once we finished, we went over each scenario together to determine if it was bullying. It was a great way to see their previous knowledge on bullying.

After going over the questions, I think passed out “Rudolph’s Problem Solving Square” and went over teasing, meanness, conflict, and bullying. I got this sheet from a pack on Teachers Pay Teachers called Christmas Reindeer Games: Teasing, Meanness, Conflict, and Bullying at the Counseling Wisdom store. 

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Counseling-Wisdom 

Once the students had each of these down, we looked at the different examples we can see each on throughout the story of Rudolph. The students did a fabulous job of giving examples of each from Rudolph. I was so impressed with their memory on the account that we didn’t have enough time to actually watch the movie!

After this discussion, I passed out scenarios for the students to work in groups. I instructed the groups to determine what category their scenario fell under-teasing, meanness, conflict, or bullying. I then asked each group how they could handle their specific situation.

 Overall, this lesson was really fun! However, it is imperative that students understand that during the scoot game there is no talking, running to the next desk, bumping into one another, etc. Also this lesson did take some time to complete everything so I would make sure the teacher is okay with using 45 minutes or so for this lesson or you could break it down into 2 lessons. That being said, I LOVED this lesson! I wanted all my lessons to have some sort of Christmas theme and this lesson fit that perfectly while teaching the students about bullying in a fun and engaging way! And with it being Christmas, of course I couldn't help but to bring some goodies for the students!                                   

I found this adorable Christmas erasers, along with pencils, at the Dollar store!