Learning to Live Together
Objectives
- D02.S1.01.01 Use kind words such as please, thank you, and may I when speaking with classmates and adults.
- D02.S1.01.02 Listen without interrupting while a classmate is speaking.
- D02.S2.01.01 Guess how a classmate feels by reading their face, voice, or body.
- D02.S2.01.02 Tell what another person might want or need in a familiar situation.
- D02.S3.01.01 Name several communities they belong to, such as family, class, and neighborhood.
- D02.S3.01.02 Describe one thing each community does together and one way they help out.
- D02.S4.01.01 Offer help to a classmate who is struggling, without being asked.
- D02.S4.01.02 Share classroom resources and take care of shared materials.
Essential questions
- How do we speak, listen, and help one another well?
- What communities do I belong to, and how do I help care for them?
Big ideas
- Kind words, listening, and helping are skills we practice every day.
- We each belong to communities — family, class, neighborhood — that we help make caring places.
Lessons
- 1 Kind Words 45 minutes
- 2 Listening Without Interrupting 45 minutes
- 3 Waiting to Speak 45 minutes
- 4 Reading Feelings 45 minutes
- 5 What Might They Need? 45 minutes
- 6 My Communities 45 minutes
- 7 What We Do Together 45 minutes
- 8 Offering Help 45 minutes
- 9 Sharing and Caring for Materials 45 minutes
- 10 Learning to Live Together 50 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of kind words, listening, and spontaneous helping during the day; a "communities I belong to" picture and a class "caring community" project as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 3 — Learning to Live Together
Overview
This unit lives out what My Feelings, My Story began: now that learners can name their own feelings, they practice living well with others. They use kind words, listen without interrupting, read a classmate’s feelings from face, voice, and body, and guess what another person might need. They name the communities they belong to and how each one works together, and they practice care — offering help without being asked and looking after shared materials. Relationship is taught as a set of skills to practice, in a spirit of mutual aid rather than competition.
Essential questions
- How do we speak, listen, and help one another well?
- What communities do I belong to, and how do I help care for them?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind Words | D02.S1.01.01 |
| 2 | Listening Without Interrupting | D02.S1.01.02 |
| 3 | Waiting to Speak | D02.S1.01.02, D02.S1.01.01 |
| 4 | Reading Feelings | D02.S2.01.01 |
| 5 | What Might They Need? | D02.S2.01.02 |
| 6 | My Communities | D02.S3.01.01 |
| 7 | What We Do Together | D02.S3.01.02 |
| 8 | Offering Help | D02.S4.01.01 |
| 9 | Sharing and Caring for Materials | D02.S4.01.02 |
| 10 | Learning to Live Together | D02.S1.01.01, D02.S1.01.02, D02.S2.01.01, D02.S2.01.02, D02.S3.01.01, D02.S3.01.02, D02.S4.01.01, D02.S4.01.02 |