Culture Compass & SEL Updates

Week 5 of Second Step instruction will begin on Monday November 4, 2024.

Lesson 5 is the Performance Task for the unit.

Below you will find the week 5 lesson summary by grade level:

Lesson 5: Let’s Practice and Learn!

Summary

In this week’s lesson, your child will show what they’ve learned about the importance of paying attention, practicing, and continuing to try after making mistakes. They’ll put these skills to use while learning a rhyme with accompanying movements.

Try This at Home

Ask your child to show and teach you the rhyme they learned, along with the movements, so you can do it together.

Lesson 5: We Can Do It!

Summary

In this week’s lesson, your child will show what they’ve learned about paying attention, managing distractions, and practicing as they learn to draw Pepito, a character from Second Step Elementary animated videos.

Try This at Home

Ask your child to tell you about their experience learning to draw Pepito. Encourage them to draw a family portrait with Pepito in it as a way to keep practicing.

Lesson 5: Learn and Get Better

Summary

In this week’s lesson, your child will use what they’ve learned from the unit to give advice to someone who is struggling to learn something new.

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Ask your child what advice they would give you if you were having a hard time learning something new.

Lesson 5: Make a Practice Plan

Summary

In this week’s lesson, your child will make their own practice plan.

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Ask your child share their practice plan with you. If they brought it home, find a place to display it where they’ll see it every day. Check in to see how their plan is going, and support them if they need help adjusting their plans.

Lesson 5: Ready, Set, Goal!

Summary

In this week’s lesson, your child will practice the full goal-setting process as they work toward a 10-minute goal with a group.

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Work with your child to make a list of 1-week goals you could set as a family. Choose one and make sure it’s specific, challenging, and doable. Follow the goal-setting process to make a plan, check in on how it’s going, and at the end of the week, reflect on how it went and what you could do next time.

Lesson 5: My 10-Minute Goal

Summary

In this week’s lesson, your child will apply the full goal-setting process they learned in this unit to work toward a 10-minute goal of their choice.

Try This at Home

Ask your child about the goal-setting process they learned in this unit and why it’s important. Encourage them to set a new short-term goal that's right for them and to follow the process they learned. Check in along the way to see how it’s going.

Please visit this website for resources for parents/guardians: https://www.stopbullying.gov/resources/what-you-can-do

As Bullying Prevention Month comes to a close, I would like to share a video with you all:

This video shows us just how powerful our words are. If this could happen to a plant, just imagine the impact of bullying on people.

Please choose to be kind, and please encourage our young people to be kind.

If you have questions and/or would like to discuss the information shared in this week's Culture Compass, please contact me directly.