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We all share the responsibility for creating a safe, positive, and
productive community through:
Being
respectful and kind to others.
Expressing our
feelings and opinions in a considerate manner.
Honoring our
similarities and differences.
Establishing rules to keep people,
materials, and our environment safe.
Following The Golden Rule; treat
others as you want to be
treated.
There are various leaders in our community school and classroom and children can be leaders.
The leader of the United
States is called the president.
There are important American symbols (the American flag, the
National Anthem, The Pledge of Allegiance)
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Give
examples that show the meaning of the following concepts: authority,
fairness, justice, responsibility, and rules.
Retell
stories that illustrate honesty, courage, friendship, respect,
responsibility, and the wise, or judicious exercise of authority, and
explain how the characters in the stories show these qualities.
Identify and describe family or community members who promote the welfare
and safety of children and adults.
Demonstrate
understanding that there are important American symbols by identifying
A.
The American flag and its colors and shapes
B.
The melody of the national anthem
C.
The picture and name of the current president
D.
The words of the Pledge of Allegiance
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Participating
in Classroom jobs – dailly
Second Step Curriculum
Unit 1: Empathy Training
Lesson
2 Feelings and Empathy
Lesson
6: Similarities/Differences
Lesson
8: I Care
Lesson
9: I Help
Unit 2: Emotion Management
Lesson
4: Dealing with Waiting
Lesson
5: Dealing with Not getting
What you Want
Unit 3: Problem Solving
Lesson
4: Fair Ways to Play
Discuss/
demonstrate through dramatic play safety rules and traffic rules, recess
rules, classroom rules.
Children
participate in developing group goals and rules.
Discuss
the consequences of not following rules.
Engage
in dramatic play role play of positive ways to solve problems.
Mystery
Person Game: Children dictate a
list of 3 – 5 characteristics about themselves. All children stand.
An adult reads the list from a child’s card. Children sit down if
they do not have that quality. Students see how they are alike/different
Mystery
Kindergartner Book
Responsive
Classroom (resources)
Discuss
super heroes, book character
and real people in community who represent qualities of fairness,
justice, etc.
Discuss
alternative outcomes of stories if characters had different traits or made
different choices
Participate
in Demonstration of the proper
care of the American flag (invite a boy scout, custodian, war veteran)
Farmer Duck Martin Waddell
Purple, Green, and Yellow Robert Munsch
It’s Mine! Leo Lionni
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