My Feelings, My Values & My Growing Self
Objectives
- D01.S1.05.01 Explain how thoughts, memories, and body sensations can shape a feeling.
- D01.S1.05.02 Compare how feelings are expressed in different families, cultures, and situations.
- D01.S2.05.01 Name values they care about, such as fairness, honesty, and kindness, and give an example of living by one.
- D01.S2.05.02 Explain how a person's identity is shaped by family, culture, place, and history.
- D01.S3.05.01 Monitor their own behavior and feelings during a task and name what helped or hurt their focus.
- D01.S3.05.02 Take responsibility for a choice and its effects on others, and name a better next step.
Essential questions
- How do my thoughts, memories, and body shape what I feel?
- What do I value, and what makes me who I am becoming?
Big ideas
- Feelings are shaped by thoughts, memories, and body sensations, and how they are expressed differs across families and cultures.
- My values, and the family, culture, place, and history that shape my identity, guide my choices — and I can take responsibility for them.
Lessons
- 1 Thoughts Shape My Feelings 45 minutes
- 2 Memories and My Body Shape a Feeling 45 minutes
- 3 How Different Families Show Feelings 45 minutes
- 4 How Cultures and Situations Shape Feeling Expression 45 minutes
- 5 The Values I Care About 45 minutes
- 6 Living by a Value I Care About 45 minutes
- 7 What Shapes Me: Family, Culture, Place, and History 45 minutes
- 8 My Identity Map and Every Family's Shape 45 minutes
- 9 Watching My Focus: What Helps and What Hurts 45 minutes
- 10 Owning My Choices and Making It Right 45 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of thought–memory–feeling connections and cross-cultural feeling comparisons; a "my values" page, an identity map, and a focus-monitoring and responsibility reflection as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 2 — My Feelings, My Values & My Growing Self
Overview
This unit opens the year inward, building on Grade 4’s work of describing feeling intensity and complex feelings such as jealousy, guilt, and pride. Learners now explain how thoughts, memories, and body sensations can shape a feeling, and compare how feelings are expressed in different families, cultures, and situations. They name the values they care about — fairness, honesty, kindness — and give an example of living by one, and explain how a person’s identity is shaped by family, culture, place, and history. They monitor their own behavior and feelings during a task and name what helped or hurt their focus, and take responsibility for a choice and its effects on others, naming a better next step. Every family’s shape and every child’s pace are honored.
Essential questions
- How do my thoughts, memories, and body shape what I feel?
- What do I value, and what makes me who I am becoming?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| L.05.002.01 | Thoughts Shape My Feelings | D01.S1.05.01 |
| L.05.002.02 | Memories and My Body Shape a Feeling | D01.S1.05.01 |
| L.05.002.03 | How Different Families Show Feelings | D01.S1.05.02 |
| L.05.002.04 | How Cultures and Situations Shape Feeling Expression | D01.S1.05.02 |
| L.05.002.05 | The Values I Care About | D01.S2.05.01 |
| L.05.002.06 | Living by a Value I Care About | D01.S2.05.01 |
| L.05.002.07 | What Shapes Me: Family, Culture, Place, and History | D01.S2.05.02 |
| L.05.002.08 | My Identity Map and Every Family’s Shape | D01.S2.05.02 |
| L.05.002.09 | Watching My Focus: What Helps and What Hurts | D01.S3.05.01 |
| L.05.002.10 | Owning My Choices and Making It Right | D01.S3.05.02 (capstone: revisits D01.S1.05.01, D01.S2.05.01) |