5th Grade has finished their Second Step curriculum!
6th, 7th, and 8th graders will be going through two lessons this week.
6th Grade - Unit 3 - Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions
Lesson 17: Managing Your Emotions - In this lesson, your child will learn and practice several emotion-management strategies to help them make good decisions when they’re feeling a strong emotion.
Try this at home: Ask your child what strategy they like to use when they realize they need to manage their emotions. Share a strategy you like to use and see if it’s also helpful for them.
Lesson 18: What Works Best for You? - In this lesson, your child will practice choosing an emotion-management strategy that works best for them in a given setting. They’ll look at several different settings and pick a strategy they think will work for them.
Try this at home: Discuss different scenarios that might happen at home or school where your child might need to use an emotion-management strategy. Talk through the scenarios and ask your child to share their thinking and reasoning with you.
7th Grade - Unit 3 - Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions
Lesson 17: Reframe the Situation - In this lesson, your child will learn ways to reframe a situation by turning unhelpful thoughts into helpful thoughts.
Try this at home: Ask your child to explain the difference between helpful and unhelpful thoughts. Tell your child about an unhelpful thought you had today and how you were able to change it to a helpful thought. Ask your child if they had an unhelpful thought and how you can support them in changing it to a helpful thought.
Lesson 18: Practicing Positive Self-Talk - In this lesson, your child will practice a strategy called positive self-talk to help them reframe challenging situations.
Try this at home: Ask your child to explain what “negativity bias” is. Share with each other one or more good things that happened today.
8th Grade - Unit 3 - Thoughts, Emotions, and Decisions
Lesson 17: Strategies for Managing Stress - In this lesson, your child will learn some strategies for managing stress. These strategies include: slow breathing, reframing challenging situations, positive self-talk, and progressive muscle relaxation.
Try this at home: Ask your child what makes them feel stressed and how they cope with that stress. Share your own stressors and helpful ways you manage stress.
Lesson 18: Changing Strategies and Getting Help - In this lesson, your child will analyze stressful situations and decide if they need to change their strategy or get outside help to manage their stress.
Try this at home: Tell your child about a time you needed help managing stress.
