K-2
Unit 1: Skills For Learning
Lesson 1: Following Directions
Lesson Concepts:
Listening and following directions are important skills for learning.
Repeating directions helps you remember them.
Following directions involves using your eyes, ears, and brain.
Lesson 2: Self-Talk for Learning
Lesson Concepts:
Self-talk means talking to yourself out loud in a quiet voice or inside your head.
Self-talk helps you focus and maintain attention.
Lesson 3: Being Assertive
Lesson Objectives:
Being assertive involves using an assertive posture (face the person, head up and shoulders back) and tone of voice (calm, firm voice; respectful words).
Assertive communication is the best way to ask for help.
Unit 2: Empathy
Lesson 4: Identifying Feelings
Lesson Objectives:
Identifying your own feelings helps you know how others feel.
Everyone experiences strong feelings sometimes.
Some feelings are comfortable, and some are uncomfortable.
Physical clues can help identify others’ feelings
Lesson 5: Looking For More Clues
Lesson Objectives:
Situational clues can help you identify others’ feelings.
Understanding how others feel improves relationships.
Lesson 6: Similarities and Differences
Lesson Objectives:
People can have different feelings about the same situation.
It’s okay for people to have different feelings about the same thing.
Lesson 7: Feelings Change
Lesson Objectives:
People may have different feelings about the same situation at different times.
Feelings may change over time.
Being inviting and welcoming can change people’s feelings.
Teacher Follow-Through Resource
Lesson 8: Accidents
Lesson Objectives:
An accident is when you do something you didn’t mean to do.
It’s important to accept responsibility for an accident to prevent others from assuming it was intentional
Lesson 9: Showing Care and Concern
Lesson Objectives:
Compassion is empathy in action.
People feel better when others show them care and concern
Unit 3: Emotion Management
Lesson 10: Identifying Our Own Feelings
Lesson Objectives:
You identify your own feelings by physical clues in your body.
All feelings are natural.
Lesson 11: Strong Feelings
Lesson Objectives:
Feelings vary in strength.
Strong feelings need to be managed.
Saying “Stop” and naming your feeling are ways to begin to calm down.
Lesson 12: Calming Down Anger
Lesson Objectives:
Belly breathing calms down strong feelings.
Belly breathing pushes the belly out when you breathe in.
Being mean or hurting others when you’re angry is not okay.
Lesson 13: Self-Talk For Calming Down
Lesson Objectives:
Positive self-talk is an effective strategy for calming down strong emotions.
Lesson 14: Managing Worry
Lesson Objectives:
Counting is one of the effective Ways to Calm Down.
The Ways to Calm Down can help students manage worry.
Talking to a grown-up helps when you’re worried.
Unit 4: Problem Solving
Lesson 15: Solving Problems Part 1
Lesson Objectives:
You need to calm down before you solve a problem.
The first step in solving a problem is to use words to describe the problem.
The second step in solving a problem is to think of lots of solutions.
Lesson 16: Solving Problems Part 2
Lesson Objectives:
Part of problem solving is thinking about consequences.
The final step of problem solving is to pick the best solution.
Solving problems is a way to get along better with others.
Lesson 17: Fair Ways To Play
Lesson Objectives:
Sharing, trading, and taking turns are fair ways to play.
Sharing means playing together with a toy.
Lesson 18: Inviting to Join In
Lesson Objectives:
It’s important to notice and have empathy for children who are left out of play.
Inviting others to play is the right thing to do.
Playing with others is a way to get to know them better.
Lesson 19: Handling Name Calling
Lesson Objectives:
It’s not okay to call people names that hurt their feelings.
If someone calls you a name, you can ignore the person or speak assertively.
If the person doesn’t stop calling you names, you should tell a grown-up.