Second Step Review Game-2nd grade

Skills For Learning

1

This skill for learning means treating people how you would like to be treated.

Be respectful

2

This skill for learning means asking for what you want or need in a respectful, calm, and firm way.

Be assertive

3

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

4

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"

5

Name the five main parts of "whole body listening"

Eyes watching, Ears Listening, Mouth quiet, Body Still, Brain thinking

Empathy

1

What does empathy mean?

Feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling.

2

Name two of the clues that can help you decide how someone might be feeling.

Face, Body, Voice, and Situation

3

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

4

Which word means "empathy in action"

compassion

5

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 

Strong Emotions

1

Name a strong emotion.

Anger, Jealous, Embarrassed, Scared, Worried,

2

Which part of the brain needs to be calm before you can make a good choice?

Feelings part of the brain (Amygdala)

3

Name 3 steps for calming down

1. Use your stop signal

2. Name your feeling

3. Breathe, count, or use positive self-talk

4

Explain how to do belly-breaths

Put your hand on your belly. Breathe in slowly through your nose and out through your mouth.

5

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

Problem Solving

1

What is something that is important to do BEFORE you try to problem solve?

Calm Down

2

When thinking of solutions to a problem, they must be ____________ and ______________.

safe and respectful

3

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

4

What do S-T-E-P stand for?

Say the problem

Think of solutions

Explore consequences

Pick the best solution

5

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

Role Plays

1

You don't understand your homework. Ask for help in an assertive way.

I don't understand my homework. Could you please help me?

2

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?

3

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.

4

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)

5

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