SECOND STEP FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 17th

KINDERGARTEN - Lesson 15: Demonstrating Kindness

Unit 3 Overview

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will show what they’ve learned about kindness and the power of kind acts to help people feel good. They’ll draw themselves doing a kind act for someone at school.

Try This at Home: Ask your child to show or tell you about their drawing of doing a kind act for someone at school. Encourage them to draw a picture of themselves doing a kind act at home too.

GRADE 1 - Lesson 15: Demonstrating Kind Acts

Unit 3 Overview

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will show what they’ve learned about kind acts as they role-play doing kind acts for others in a variety of contexts.

Try This at Home: Choose a day of the week (for example, Wednesdays) as “kindness day.” Help your child think of kind acts they can do for family members, friends, or neighbors. Write the kind acts on the calendar for the next several weeks.

GRADE 2 - Lesson 15: Empathy and Kindness

Unit 3 Overview 

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will use empathy to come up with a kind act they could do for a person they choose.

Try This at Home: Ask your child who they chose to have empathy for and what kind act they decided to do.

GRADE 3 - Lesson 15: Do Something Kind

Unit 3 Overview

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will show what they know about empathy and kindness by planning kind acts to do for someone they care about.

Try This at Home: Ask your child about the kindness coupons they made in class. Ask how they chose the kind acts for each person.

GRADE 4 - Lesson 15: A New Point of View

Unit 3 Overview

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will practice asking questions to better understand someone’s point of view when it’s harder to empathize.

Try This at Home: Discuss with your child the benefits of learning more about the different points of view of people in your family. If there’s a point of view they don’t understand, think of questions together that they can ask to learn more about it.

GRADE 5 - Lesson 15: Your Solution

Unit 3 Overview

Summary: In this lesson, your child will choose a solution to a problem in their school community and explain how it meets the wants and needs of the people who are affected by the problem.

Try This at Home: Point out a change that has happened in your neighborhood recently that was intended to solve a problem. Ask your child if that change was a good solution, and how they know.