Rotation 7
Lesson Concepts
Why This Lesson Matters
this lesson continues to expand students' awareness of how feelings work and improves their ability to understand their own and others' feelings by helping them explore ways feelings can change. Inviting and welcoming are important skills that can help students build friendships and avoid being left out. It helps students understand that some actions happen by accident. This may make them less likely to jump to conclusions. When students assume that others behave with hostility toward them, they are more likely to respond aggressively. Empathy can motivate students to respond to others in a caring way. Young students often try to comfort others through physical affection, by offering a toy, or by saying something comforting. However, students may have trouble showing care and concern in situations that are emotionally overwhelming.
Learning Targets
Students will be able to:
Lesson
- 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.
- An accident is when you do something you didn't mean to do.
- It is important to accept responsibility for an accident to prevent others from assuming it was an accident.
- Compassion is empathy in action.
- People feel better when others show them care and concern.
Why This Lesson Matters
this lesson continues to expand students' awareness of how feelings work and improves their ability to understand their own and others' feelings by helping them explore ways feelings can change. Inviting and welcoming are important skills that can help students build friendships and avoid being left out. It helps students understand that some actions happen by accident. This may make them less likely to jump to conclusions. When students assume that others behave with hostility toward them, they are more likely to respond aggressively. Empathy can motivate students to respond to others in a caring way. Young students often try to comfort others through physical affection, by offering a toy, or by saying something comforting. However, students may have trouble showing care and concern in situations that are emotionally overwhelming.
Learning Targets
Students will be able to:
- demonstrate welcoming and inviting behavior
- know what the word accident means
- know what to say when they do something by accident
- predict how others might feel as a result of their own or others’ actions
- demonstrate caring and helping in response to situations
Lesson
- Second Step Lesson 9 - Feelings Change. The students watched a video of a girl on her first day of school. At the beginning of the video clip she looked very nervous and scared, but then her friend helped her feel welcome and her feelings changed to happy.
- Role Play - the students took turns "acting" in front of the class with various situations: Examples: Inviting someone to play at recess. Asking someone to sit next to you. Asking someone to share markers with you. Asking someone to be your partner for an activity.
- Second Step Lesson 10 - Accidents. The students analyzed a picture of two boys on the playground. They were playing with a ball, when one of them threw the ball up and it dropped in the puddle of water, splashing the other boy in the face. We talked about how the two boys were feeling in the pictures and how their feelings could change based on how the boys reacted to the situation. We played an "if-then" game. For example: If Will ignores what happened and continues to play, then Angelo might feel angry or sad. If Angelo starts yelling, then Will might feel sad. If Will says it was an accident and apologizes, then Angelo might feel happy.
- Role Play - the students practiced saying: "I'm Sorry. It was an accident. Are you okay?" in various situations with a partner. We talked about how if something is an accident, it is always very important to still apologize and offer to help and make sure they are okay.
- We watched a short video clip about a tomato upsetting all his vegetable friends because he just won't say sorry: Tomato Says Sorry
- Second Step Lesson 11 - Showing Care and Concern. The students analyzed a picture of a boy holding his shell for show and tell who is looking very sad and a girl who looks very concerned for her friend. The boy is feeling sad because he was getting ready to show is shell to the class, when he got the hiccups and everyone started laughing. He felt embarrassed and the girl comes over to try to help him feel better. We discussed different things the girl could say and do.
- Role Play - the student "acted" in front of the class various situations where they could show compassion to a classmate. Some examples of situations are: Your friend feel frustrated because he or she can’t find a library book. Your friend feels embarrassed because he or she slipped on the stairs. Your friend feels disappointed because there aren’t any more swings at recess. Your friend feels worried because he or she is going to a doctor’s appointment.
- We read: Shubert’s Helpful Day by: Becky Bailey
- We all danced and sang along to "That was helpful"
- We read: Melissa Parkington’s Beautiful, Beautiful Hair by: Pat Brisson