Kindergarten
Second Step
In Kindergarten we are using a program called Second Step. We started the year with learning to read faces: happy, mad, sad and scared. Students practiced making these feelings faces and being able to recognize them in their classmates. We learned to choose to play with classmates wearing a happy face, give those with a mad face time to cool off and calm down, those with a sad face need a caring friend, and those feeling scared need someone or something to help them feel better.
Students learn we don't all feel the same way about the same things. Sometimes we can have different feelings about the same things and that is okay. Something that doesn't bother you may bother a friend and we need to understand that.
Students will learn sometimes we want to play different games than our friends. If a friend says they don't want to play what you are playing it doesn't mean they don't like you they just want to play something different and that is okay. If a friend asks you to play something and you don't want to play you can say, "Not now, maybe later."
Students will learn the difference between things done on purpose and things done by accident. We talk about the importance of apologizing when we have an accident. Boys and girls practice with a partner saying, " I'm sorry it was an accident. Are you okay?"
Students learn there are things at school that belong to all of us and the importance of sharing and taking turns.
Students learn to use their words when someone does something they do not like. Practice with partners allows boys and girls the chance to identify their feelings in different situations and practice using the "I feel" sentence to tell a classmate about something they do or do not like.
Students learn we don't all feel the same way about the same things. Sometimes we can have different feelings about the same things and that is okay. Something that doesn't bother you may bother a friend and we need to understand that.
Students will learn sometimes we want to play different games than our friends. If a friend says they don't want to play what you are playing it doesn't mean they don't like you they just want to play something different and that is okay. If a friend asks you to play something and you don't want to play you can say, "Not now, maybe later."
Students will learn the difference between things done on purpose and things done by accident. We talk about the importance of apologizing when we have an accident. Boys and girls practice with a partner saying, " I'm sorry it was an accident. Are you okay?"
Students learn there are things at school that belong to all of us and the importance of sharing and taking turns.
Students learn to use their words when someone does something they do not like. Practice with partners allows boys and girls the chance to identify their feelings in different situations and practice using the "I feel" sentence to tell a classmate about something they do or do not like.
Safer Smarter Kids
Safer Smarter Kids is a 6 lesson unit on personal safety, stranger danger, and good and bad touches. It includes videos, stories and role playing. Students learn a stranger is anyone you do not know and if anyone tries to get you to do something unsafe to use your words to get help from an adult or to say, "Stop! That's not safe!"