Growing Great Kids
The companion page to the book
26 Practices for a Happy, Healthy and Balanced Life
Growing Great Kids is a story-led guide for parents and teachers of primary school children. Adapted with permission from Rick Hanson’s Just One Thing, it brings twenty-six simple practices to life through the story of a village that has lost its colour, along with everything you need to share each one at home and in the classroom.
This page is the book’s companion. It’s where you’ll find printable pages for the fridge at home, along with student journals and posters for the classroom, so each practice can keep growing long after you close the book.
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Every practice in the book ends with a page for the fridge, so the whole family knows what you’re trying together that week. I’ve put all 26 together as free printables, so you can pop a new one up each week and keep the practice going between stories.
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Student Companion Journals
Each child gets a journal of their own to work through the 26 practices. Every practice has two pages, with that week’s villager to colour in and space to draw, write and reflect. Each time a child finishes a practice, they colour in a leaf on their own Old Tree, and by the end of the year it’s full of colour. A Certificate of Colour waits for them on the last page.
There’s a journal for Prep to Grade 2, one for Grades 3 and 4 and one for Grades 5 and 6, so every child can take part at the right level. Each journal is a one-off purchase of A$14.95, or you can get all three levels together for A$34.95.
You only pay once. After that, you can print as many copies as you need for every child in your family or classroom, this year and every year after. Each journal comes as a printable download in both A4 and US Letter.
