Skills For Learning
This skill for learning means treating people how you would like to be treated.
Be respectful
What does empathy mean?
Feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling.
What is something that is important to do BEFORE you try to problem solve?
Calm Down
You don't understand your homework. Ask for help in an assertive way.
I don't understand my homework. Could you please help me?
This skill for learning means asking for what you want or need in a respectful, calm, and firm way.
Be assertive
Name two of the clues that can help you decide how someone might be feeling.
Face, Body, Voice, and Situation
When thinking of solutions to a problem, they must be ____________ and ______________.
safe and respectful
Your friend just fell off of the swing and starts crying. Act out what you would do and say to show compassion and kindness.
Are you okay? Do you want me to take you to the nurse?
Which skill for learning means that you talk to yourself, in a quiet voice or in your head, so that you can focus, ignore distractions, or calm down?
self-talk
What emotion would something probably feel l if they were the only one in their class that didn't get invited to a classmate's birthday party?
Jealous or Sad
Name 3 steps for calming down
1. Use your stop signal
2. Name your feeling
3. Breathe, count, or use positive self-talk
Name the 3 blaming words in the following problem solving sentence: I never get to go on the swing first. You are always hogging the swing.
never, you, always
Another classmate keeps humming while you are trying to work. Act out using positive self-talk.
I need to focus! I am going to ignore the humming. If it continues I will ask them to stop.
Give 1 example of positive self-talk that you can use to help yourself stay on-task.
"focus"
"ignore distractions"
"concentrate"
"I can do this"
Which word means "empathy in action"
compassion
Explain how to do belly-breaths
Put your hand on your belly. Breathe in slowly through your nose and out through your mouth.
What do S-T-E-P stand for?
Say the problem
Think of solutions
Explore consequences
Pick the best solution
You start to worry about your spelling test. Practice the calm-down steps
Stop (Chill) Name my feeling (I am feeling scared) I need to calm down (belly breathe) Positive self-talk (I can do this)
Name the five main parts of "whole body listening"
Eyes watching, Ears Listening, Mouth quiet, Body Still, Brain thinking
Your sister scraped her knee on the sidewalk and she is crying. How can you show compassion?
example: offer to help her up and get her a band-aid
Tell what the amygdala and the pre-frontal cortex are responsible for in our brains.
Amygdala = "lizard/animal brain," senses danger and tells our body to "fight or flight"
Pre-frontal cortex = "the thinking part," helps us make good choices and remember what we have learned
You and your best friend can't agree on who gets to go first on the monkey bars. You decide that one of you will go first today and one of you will go first tomorrow. Name a positive and a negative consequence for this solution
positive: you both get a chance to go first, you both get to have a turn
negative: one of you will have to wait to go first
Two kids are fighting over a basketball. Show us how they could use the problem-solving STEPs
Say the problem: we both want to use the basketball
Think of solutions (must be safe & respectful)
Explore consequences
Pick the best solution