Second Step

Today we were introduced to a Social Studies Curriculum called "Second Step".  Every 6 days we will do a Second Step Lesson.  We will update the bog, so that you can talk to your son/daughter about what he/she learned during the discussion.  This is a great way to help your child feel comfortable and confident with speaking in either a small group or in a large group setting.  We will warm-up with an activity, we will have a story and discussion, and then we will transfer what we learned into real-life scenarios.  There is always a goal of the lesson, a concept, and an objective! 

Today's lesson:

Goal: 
The goal of this unit is to increase children's ability to identify others' feelings, take others' perspectives, and respond empathically to others.
Empathy requires the identification of others' feelings through verbal and physical cues.


Concept:
Rules are important for group discussions
(Language  concept: rule)
Empathy requires the identification of others' feelings through verbal and physical cues.

(Language concept: is, not, feelings, happy, sad, angry, pretend)



Objective:
Children will be able to:
-provide rules of conduct for group discussions
-name happy, sad, and angry when presented with physical and verbal cues of these emotions

We looked at two different pictures of children.  One being very happy and the other very sad.  We discussed how we could tell one was happy and the other sad.  We discussed what makes us happy vs. sad.  We We also discussed some rules to help us all learn  better during Second Step lessons!