Leander ISD Counseling Services
Second Step Home Link-October 2018
Empathy
This month, our elementary Second Step theme is empathy. Students will be learning to have empathy, identify their own and others’ feelings, notice and respect same and different feelings, and show compassion. Compassion involves saying kind words or doing something helpful to show you care how another person feels. When students can identify, understand, and respond in a caring way to how someone else is feeling, it helps create a positive and accepting school climate.
Please tell your child’s teacher or counselor if you have any questions about how you can help your child learn to identify feelings and show empathy and compassion at home.
October Second Step Lessons
All Leander ISD students will grow his/her Empathy and Emotion Management through several lessons during the month of October. The Home Links for each lesson describe why empathy is important and include fun activities to do with your child to help him or her identify feelings and practice showing empathy and compassion. We hope you find them helpful.
Click on each lesson to view the available Home Link activities. Please note, due to specific campus events, some campuses may not be covering all of these lessons this month.
Pre-K: Following Directions, Asking for What You Need or Want, Identifying Feelings
Kindergarten: Being Assertive, Feelings, More Feelings
Grade 1: Being Assertive, Identifying Feelings, Looking for More Clues
Grade 2: Identifying Feelings, Learning More About Feelings, Feeling Confident
Grade 3: Identifying Others' Feelings, Understanding Perspectives, Conflicting Feelings
Grade 4: Understanding Complex Feelings, Understanding Different Perspectives, Conversation and Compliments
Grade 5: Taking Others' Perspectives, Accepting Differences, Disagreeing Respectfully
Mind Yeti
It’s a nonstop, busy world. Mind Yeti was developed by mindfulness and social-emotional learning experts to be an easy way to take a purposeful pause.
- For kids in Kindergarten through Grade 5 (and their adults)
- 15 short, free-forever audio sessions
- A growing library of premium content
- Available on web and iOS
Access Online Content
Use the grade level activation key listed below at www.secondstep.org to access videos and get more information about what your student is learning.
ELE and Pre-K: SSPE FAMI LY68
Kindergarten: SSPK FAMI LY70
Grade 1: SSP1 FAMI LY71
Grade 2: SSP2 FAMI LY72
Grade 3: SSP3 FAMI LY73
Grade 4: SSP4 FAMI LY74
Grade 5: SSP5 FAMI LY75
Leander ISD Counseling Services
Website: http://www.leanderisd.org
Location: 204 West South Street, Leander, TX, USA
Phone: 512570000
Twitter: @LISD_Counseling