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Third Grade
LESSON
One
Self-Care & Confidence
60 Minutes
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Lesson Overview
Students will be introduced to the concepts of neuroplasticity and in preparation for a deeper dive into the exploration of mindfulness. Before the end of the lesson students will be able to explain what self-care is and begin to identify self-care strategies that they already use or find helpful, including doing things that make them feel confident.
Lesson Objectives
- Understand the three principles of mindfulness.
- Explore mindfulness strategies for managing emotions.
- Practice self-care strategies based on confidence.
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how to prepare for this lesson
To prepare for the Mindfulness activity on Slide 10, teachers will need enough cotton balls for each student.
Throughout this unit, students will be creating their own placements for their Table of Friendship. These placements will be created by weaving paper. Starting with Lesson 1, students will complete sentence starter strips of paper that they will use to weave their placemat. The students’ placemats will be completed by Lesson 6, when students are introduced to the ideas of Diversity and Belonging, and taught that everyone has a seat at the Table of Friendship. During this lesson, all of the placemats should be displayed together in the shape of a table, ideally on a designated board in the classroom. To further represent the classroom diversity, it is great if students are given time and space to individualize their placemats. This could be, them picking out their own colored paper for the ‘loom’ of their placemat weave, or encouraging/allowing time for students to color or decorate their paper strips before weaving them into their placemat. Alternatively, students can write the sentence starters directly on colored strips of paper of their choosing, rather than using the provided sentence starter handouts.
Self-Care & Confidence Sentence Starters should be pre-cut into strips. Each student will receive one of each (three total). These paper strips will be used for the placemat weaving activity introduced in Lesson 2. Be sure to have students write their names on the backs of their paper strips before returning them to you for use during the next lesson.
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