Second Steps - Dinnertime Conversation
Second Steps – Dinnertime conversations Grade 3
Unit 1 EMPATHY
Week 1 (Do before card 1) Empathy Training Overview Part 1
What are emotions? Make a bulleted list of all of the emotions you know or have experienced.
Week 2 (Cards 1 and 2) Empathy Training Overview Part 2
Pick two emotions from your list of emotions from Week one, and discuss what actions could cause those emotions?
Week 3 (Card 3) Conflicting Feelings
Choose two emotions from your list that you have experienced at the same time but during one situation.
Week 4 (Card 4) – Active Listening
How do you show someone that you are listening to them?
Week 5 (Card 5)- Expressing Concern
How do show concern for others through your actions and words?
Week 6 ( Card 6) - Accepting Differences
Everyone is similar in some ways and different in others. Give an example of a time when someone was unkind or made fun of you because you were different?
UNIT 2 Impulse control and problem solving
Week 7 (Card 7) Part 1
What strategies do you use to calm down and stop and think?
Week 8 (Card 8) Part 2
Try out one of the strategies to help you keep calm and reflect whether it was successful or not.
I tried ………………………………………………………… and this is what happened…………………………………………………………………………….
Week 9 (Card 9) Making Conversations
List the ways you knew that the person you were talking to was actively engaged and listening to you?
Week 10 (Card 10) Dealing with peer pressure
When did you feel peer pressure?
What did they do to you?
How did you feel?
Week 11 (Card 11) Resisting the impulse to steal
Discuss a time when you trusted someone and they let you down.
How did it make you feel about that person?
What did you handle the situation?
Week 12 (Card 12) Resisting the impulse to lie)
“Honesty is the best policy.”
Discuss a time when you werehonest.
How did you feel after you told the truth?
Did it have an effect on the other people involved in the dishonesty?
UNIT 3 ANGER MANAGEMENT
Week 13 (Card 13) Anger Management Skill Overview Part 1
Describe physical signs of anger that you have observed.
What causes these angry feelings?
Week 14 (Card 14) Anger Management Skill Overview Part 2
What strategies do you use to manage your anger?
Does this work for you or could you think of a better way to handle the situation?
Week 15 (Card 15) Dealing with Accusations
Discuss a time when you were falsely accused.
How did you feel?
How did you deal with the problem?
What was the outcome?
Week 16 Card 16) Dealing with disappointment
Discuss a time when you did not reach a goal you had set?
How did you feel?
What would you do differently now?
Week 17 (Card 17) Making a complaint
What steps did you use to deal with a complaint about an unhappy situation?
Week 18 (Card 18) Keeping Second Steps Skills Going
Write and illustrate a page for our class journal on Second Steps Skills on how you used these lessons to impact your life
a) At home
And or
b) At School
