Lesson Topics

Be A World Changer

• Responsible Decision-Making – Be A World Changer: Teaching children to use their time, talents, and resources to make the world a better place.

5 W’s Of Being A Good Friend

• Relationship Skills – 5 W’s Of Being A Good Friend: Children learn practical tools for building friendships.

What Are They Telling Me?

• Social Awareness – What Are They Telling Me?: Paying attention to both verbal and non-verbal language.

Be Adaptable

• Self-Management – Be Adaptable: Being flexible when things don’t go as planned.

Taking Risks

• Self-Awareness – Taking Risks: (as long as it’s safe) when trying new things.

One Thing At A Time

• Responsible Decision-Making – One Thing At a Time: Slowing down and trying to focus on one thing at a time.

Teamwork

• Relationship Skills – Teamwork

Think The Best Of Others

• Social Awareness – Think The Best of Others: when they do things we don’t like or understand.

Pay Attention To:

• Self-Management – Pay Attention To: feelings, motivation, and surroundings when things are hard.

Believe in Yourself

• Self-Awareness – Believe in Yourself: when things are hard.

Ask Good Questions

• Responsible Decision-Making – Ask Good Questions: to help you make a wise decision.

Same and Different

• Relationship Skills – Same and Different: learning how friends are the same and different than me.

My Family Does it This Way

• Social Awareness – My Family Does It This Way: learning how different families do different things

Accepting Feedback

• Self-Management – Accepting Feedback: Learning to accept feedback as an opportunity to learn and grow.

Let’s Check In

• Self-Awareness – Let’s Check-In: Helping children reflect on how they solved a problem and what they might do to improve in the future.

Integrity

• Responsible Decision-Making – Integrity: Doing the right thing, even when it is hard or no one is watching.

Setting Boundaries

• Relationship Skills – Setting Boundaries: Learning to stand up for yourself with peers.

They Might Feel Differently Than You

• Social Awareness – They Might Feel Differently Than You: Becoming aware that others might feel differently than you in the same situation.

When Worries Get Too Big

• Self-Management – When Worries Get Too Big: Learning strategies to help when you have big emotions.

The Power of And

• Self-Awareness – The Power of AND: Understanding that you can have two different feelings at the same time.

Choices, Choices

• Responsible Decision-Making – Choices, Choices: Learning some questions to ask yourself when you have a choice to make.

Supporting Others

• Relationship Skills – Supporting Others: Learning how to be a supportive friend.

Recognizing Others’ Strengths

• Social Awareness – Recognizing Others’ Strengths: Recognizing what your friends do well and how to go to them for help in those areas.

When Things Don’t Go My Way

• Self-Management – When Things Don’t Go My Way: Learning some strategies when things don’t go your way.

Practicing Gratitude

• Bonus Week – Practicing Gratitude: Learning how to practice gratitude.

What Made Me Feel That Way?

• Self-Awareness – What Made Me Feel That Way?: Understanding what things cause us to experience different feelings.

Just Think If Everyone Did that

• Responsible Decision-Making – Just Think If Everyone Did That: Learning to think of others and not just yourself.

Problem Solving With Friends

• Relationship Skills – Problem Solving With Friends: Learning to calm down, say how you feel and then brainstorm ways to solve problems with others.

Appreciating People Who Help Us

• Social-Awareness – Appreciating People Who Help Us: Knowing who you can go to for help at school and how you can show them appreciation.

Whose Job Is it?

• Self-Management – Whose Job Is It?: Learning to do your best on jobs that belong to you and to let it go, if it is someone else’s job.

I Haven’t Learned That Yet

• Self-Awareness – I Haven’t Learned That Yet: If you haven’t learned something YET, knowing what you can do to eventually learn that skill.

When Friends Have Big Emotions

• Responsible Decision-Making – When Friends Have Big Emotions: Learning ways to support a friend who is experiencing a big emotion.

Be A Good Friend

• Relationship Skills – Be A Good Friend: Learning some basic friendship skills.

Dealing With Change

• Self-Management – Dealing With Change: Learning to handle changes that come with starting school.

Working & Playing With Others

• Social Awareness – Working & Playing With Others: Learning ways to work and play with others at school.

Vision For My Classroom

• Self-Awareness – Vision For My Classroom: A strategy for having students help create a vision for their classroom in visual form. This is good at the beginning of the school year.

Living Like A Leader

• Responsible Decision-Making – Living Like A Leader: This reviews some of the ways kids have learned how to be leaders.

Dealing With Disagreements

• Relationship Skills – Dealing With Disagreements: Learning some strategies to help children handle disagreements with each other.

In the Spotlight

• Social Awareness – In The Spotlight: Learning how to give and accept praise and attention.

Dealing With Disappointment

• Self-Management – Dealing With Disappointment: Learning some strategies to handle disappointments.

What’s Important to You?

• Self-Awareness — What’s Important To You?: Understanding your own values.

Wise Decisions

• Responsible Decision Making — Wise Decisions: Making wise choices for self care.

Friends are Respectful

• Relationship Skills – Friends Are Respectful: Respecting others’ feelings.

How Do You Think They Feel?

• Social Awareness – How Do You Think They Feel?: Using a social filter.

Stop, Think, Go!

• Self-Management – Stop, Think, Go!: A strategy for solving problems.

What Can You Do?

• Self-Awareness – What Can You Do? How to handle uncomfortable feelings.

Talk it out

• Responsible Decision Making — Talk It Out: How to communicate with friends in a conflict.

Let it Go

• Relationship Skills — Let It Go: Letting go of past mistakes with friends.

Friends Play Fair

• Social Awareness — Friends Play Fair: Strategies to play fair.

I Am Resilient

• Self Management — I Am Resilient: Going with the flow when things are different, hard or scary

I Like Myself

• Learning to Like Yourself Just the Way You Are

Be an upstander

• Responsible Decision Making — Be An Upstander: Standing up for self or others.

Apologizing

• Relationship Skills — Apologizing: Learning to apologize and take responsibility for actions.

Thinking of Others

• Social Awareness — Thinking of Others: Learning how to see a situation from another’s perspective.

Stick with It

• Self-Management — Stick With It: Strategies to stick with a goal.
• Autogestión: Mantenerse Motivado

Growth Mindset

• Self-Awareness — Growth Mindset: Trying something hard without giving up.
• Conciencia De Sí Mismo – Crecimiento Mental

Setting and Reaching Goals

• Responsible Decision Making — Setting and Reaching Goals: Picking a goal and coming up with a plan for reaching it.
• Decisiones Responsables – Establecer y Llegar a la Meta

Building Others Up

• Relationship Skills — Building Others Up: Strategies to encourage others.
• Habilidades en una Relación – Construir a Otros

Appreciating Others

• Social Awareness — Appreciating Others: Ways to appreciate those at home, school and in the community.
• Conciencia Social – Apreciando a los Demás

Press the Pause Button

• Self-Management — Press the Pause Button: Ways to get calm when experiencing big emotions.
• Autogestión: Presione el Botón de Pausa
  

Practicing Gratitude:

• Gratitude Week —: Focusing on being grateful.
• Lecciones Adicionales Por La Semana de Acción de Gracias – Practicando Gratitud

Practicing Mindfulness

• Self-Awareness — Practicing Mindfulness: Mindfulness strategies to calm down.
• Conciencia de sí Mismo – Practicando la Atención Plena

Peer Influence

• Responsible Decisions — Peer Influence: Deciding whether to follow a peer or not.

Solving Problems With Friends

• Relationship Skills — Solving Problems with Friends: Strategies to work through a problem with a friend.
• Habilidades de Relación – Resolviendo Problemas con Amigos

Social Awareness Detective

• Social Awareness — Social Awareness Detective: Looking for social cues to determine how others are feeling.

Managing Big Emotions

• Self-Management — Managing Big Emotions: Strategies to deal with frustration, disappointment, anxiety and fatigue.

All Our Feelings Are OK

• Self-Awareness — All Our Feelings Are OK: Identifying and embracing emotions.

Planning Ahead

• Responsible Decisions — Planning Ahead: Strategies to plan ahead for expected and unexpected events

Fair is Not the Same

• Relationship Skills — Fair is Not the Same: Understanding that others might have different needs to learn.

Being a Part of a Group

• Social Awareness — Being Part of a Group: Learning how to successfully be a part of a group.

Managing Time, Materials and Schedules

• Self-Management – Manage Time, Materials and Schedules: Strategies to organize time and things.

Interests, Hobbies, Strengths, Challenges

• Self-Awareness — Interests, Hobbies, Strengths and Challenges: Being aware of your own interests, strengths and challenges and getting to learn about peers. This is a good “getting to know you” activity.