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 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.
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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.
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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
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Situational clues can help you identify others’ feelings.
Understanding how others feel improves relationships.
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People can have different feelings about the same situation.
It’s okay for people to have different feelings about the same thing.
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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 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
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Compassion is empathy in action.
People feel better when others show them care and concern
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You identify your own feelings by physical clues in your body.
All feelings are natural.
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Feelings vary in strength.
Strong feelings need to be managed.
Saying “Stop” and naming your feeling are ways to begin to calm down.
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 Objectives:
Positive self-talk is an effective strategy for calming down strong emotions.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Sharing, trading, and taking turns are fair ways to play.
Sharing means playing together with a toy.
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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.
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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.