1. Learning to Move from Anger to Calm and Happy
Drew’s Mario Story
Learning to Move from Anger
to Calm and Happy

2. Some things make me happy. Thinking
about Mario can make me happy. Playing
video games can also make me happy. Finishing
my work makes me happy. Being with my friend,
____, can make me happy, too!

3. My teachers and friends usually know when I
am happy. Here are some ways that others
know I am feeling happy:
If they see me smiling.
If they see me laughing.
If I say something like, “I like that.”
If I say, “I’m happy.”

4. Sometimes children feel angry. Here are some
ways that children let others know they are
angry:
Frowning
Saying, “That makes me angry.”
Saying, “That upsets me.”
I will try to let others know I am angry by
frowning and using these phrases, too!

5. Children try to calm down after being angry. I
have the power to help my mind to calm down
when I am finished being angry. Thinking about
Mario can help me calm down my mind.

6. I can try to think of Mario jumping on Goomba
I can try to think of Mario jumping on Goomba. Mario stomps my anger into little pieces. The little pieces are so little that they disappear.

7. When all of my anger is gone, my mind is free to
think of happy things like completing my work or
my friend, Harry.

8. I will try to think of Mario stomping on my anger to make my anger break up and disappear. That way, I can try to start thinking about happy things.