SECOND STEP FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 2ND

KINDERGARTEN - Lesson 3: Mistakes Are Okay!

 Unit 1 Overview -In this week’s lesson, your child will learn that mistakes are a natural part of the learning process. They’ll practice encouraging their classmates (and themselves) while the class learns and practices a skill together: snapping their fingers.

Try This at Home - Remind your child that everyone makes mistakes and that mistakes help us learn. Point out when you make mistakes or tell them a story about a time you learned something from making a mistake.

GRADE 1 - Lesson 3: You Did It!

Unit 1 Overview - In this week’s lesson, your child will reflect on different skills they’ve learned and talk about how practice and continued effort helped them get better.

Try This at Home - Talk with your child about different tasks and skills they have learned to do by themselves at home, for example, making their bed, getting themselves dressed, etc. Remind them that it took time and practice to get better at these things.

GRADE 2 - Lesson 3: Helpful and Unhelpful Thoughts

Unit 1 Overview - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn that helpful thoughts can help us keep going when we’re learning and unhelpful thoughts might make us want to give up.

Try This at Home - Ask your child whether the thoughts they have when they’re learning something new are helpful or unhelpful. Ask your child to share examples of helpful thoughts they know..

GRADE 3 - Lesson 3: More Than Practice

Unit 1 Overview - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn that if they’re practicing a skill but not getting better, they can try a new way of practicing or find someone to learn from.

Try This at Home - Ask your child to tell you something new they’ve been practicing at school. Ask if they can think of other ways to practice or someone they could learn from.

GRADE 4 - Lesson 3: Checking Our Progress

Unit 1 Overview - In this week’s lesson, your child’s class will work together to identify roadblocks that might be getting in the way as they work toward their 2-week goal. Then they’ll decide what they can change to remove or get around their roadblocks.

Try This at Home - Ask your child if they’ve run into any roadblocks while working toward their class goal. If so, how will they work around them? Tell your child about a time you ran into a roadblock and what you did to overcome it.

GRADE 5 - Lesson 3: Changing My Plan

Unit 1 Overview

Summary - In this week’s lesson, your child will learn how to evaluate their progress toward a goal and change their plan accordingly.

Try This at Home - Talk to your child about the progress they’ve made toward their goal. Ask them if they’ve run into any roadblocks, and offer to help them think about how to keep moving forward.