Kathi's+Theme+Study

Theme Study: Bibliotherapy Books Grade 2 This will be a one month unit for second graders on Empathy, Impulse Control, Problem Solving, and Anger Management. Classes will meet four times this month for one hour. Students will gain an overview of these features and will learn how to put their newly acquired skills into real life action when faced with problems. Empathy – Feeling proud, intentions, and fairness. Impulse Control and Problem Solving – asking for help in a respectful way, joining a group, playing games, asking for permission, and apologizing when wrong. Anger Management – Dealing with criticism, being left out, and consequences. Examples of questions: || An American Girl – Chrissa Stands Strong || Feeling Proud – [|www.wordle.net] - Students will use this website to create a word splash describing their best qualities. We will share these with the class. Impulse Control and Problem Solving – Students will use MS Word to create a submission to a “Dear Abby” column. We will put all of these into a pile and the teacher will choose a couple a day to have each student find solutions to the problems. Anger Management – Students will use MS PowerPoint to create a slide on what strategies they can use to “cool down” when they are feeling angry. We will put all of these strategies on the whiteboard and copy them all down so all students will have many different ways to handle angry feelings without exploding. || The Hundred Dresses – Eleanor Estes Oliver Button is a Sissy – Tomie DePeola The Recess Queen – Alexia O’Neill King of the Playground - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Stop Picking on Me – Pat Thomas Saturday Kid – Edward Sorel Jake Drake Bully Buster – Andrew Clements Surviving Brick Johnson – Laurie Myers My Secret Bully – Trudy Ludwig ||
 * Features covered ** –
 * Focus Questions & Discussion ** – Each class will begin this unit with some thought provoking focus questions to get the students thinking about empathy, impulse control, problem solving, and anger management.
 * Focus Questions & Discussion ** – Each class will begin this unit with some thought provoking focus questions to get the students thinking about empathy, impulse control, problem solving, and anger management.
 * 1) Your friends have all been invited to a birthday party for one of your classmates, you were not invited. What can you do?
 * 2) You are the new student at school and would love to play a game with some of the other kids. What can you do?
 * 3) When you get to school you find that you forgot to have your parents sign your permission slip for your field trip and it is due today. Your teacher reminded you yesterday to make sure you do this and you still forgot. Now you won’t be able to attend the field trip. What can you do?
 * Game/Role Play ** – During each class students will take turns role playing on problem solving skills with guided scenarios introduced by the teacher. The teacher will present the focus questions to the students and they will decide on meaningful ways to solve these problems. Students will act out these ways as other students can ask questions or add to these solutions. ||
 * Game/Role Play ** – During each class students will take turns role playing on problem solving skills with guided scenarios introduced by the teacher. The teacher will present the focus questions to the students and they will decide on meaningful ways to solve these problems. Students will act out these ways as other students can ask questions or add to these solutions. ||
 * Video ** – During each class students will view parts of a video which will cover the above named features and then they will discuss how they perceived the problems and solutions. This video is 90 minutes long and will be split into 4 showings.
 * Computer Lab ** – Students will use the computer lab to complete teacher designed activities which are aligned with the above named features.
 * Computer Lab ** – Students will use the computer lab to complete teacher designed activities which are aligned with the above named features.
 * Read/Wrap Up ** – Teacher will read from books that reinforce the features described above.
 * Read/Wrap Up ** – Teacher will read from books that reinforce the features described above.
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