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Every Friday Division 9 & 10 get together to work on Second Step. Second Step is a program that teaches children skills for social and academic success.

Our topic is: Emotional Management

This weeks lesson: Handling Being Knocked Down

Lesson Concepts:

• When you get hurt, its important to calm down before you do anything else
• You need to ask for more information and not assume that the action was on purpose

Today we are going to explore what we can do when we get knocked down.  Listen to the story Horrible Bear about what happens if you assume something was done on purpose.

Think, turn, tell:

• Did the bear mean to break the kite?
• Did the little girl know it was an accident?
• How do you think the little girl felt when her kite saw that her kite was broken?
• What could the little girl have done differently?

Instead of getting really mad and yelling “Horrible Bear!”, the little girl needed to calm down!   After she calmed down, she should have asked the bear if it was an accident.  It is important to find out what happened because sometimes, things happen by accident.

When you’re playing with someone and you get hurt, it’s important to calm down before you do something that might hurt others.  Sometimes we get upset or frustrated, but its not okay to hurt others.

Use a calm voice to tell the person that you’re hurt, and then ask what happened. Focusing your attention on the other person’s face can help you understand what happened. This is called empathy.

When you hurt someone by accident, it’s important to let the person know that you didn’t to do it and that you’re sorry.

Think, turn, tell: If you hurt someone by accident, what could you say?  (I’m sorry. It was an accident, are you okay?)

Remember to go to Ms. Quin’s Blog for week eight of music and movement activities.

http://sd41blogs.ca/quin-music/

A Community is a place where people live, work and play.

Who else lives in our community?

Many wild animals live in our community.

I live in the community of Port Moody.  Bears, deer, coyotes, salmon, Canada geese, and many kinds of aquatic birds live here too.

One of the most interesting residents of Port Moody is the beaver.  A beaver family has built a dam in the Suter Brook Creek.  Beaver can be very destructive.  They cut down trees and cause flooding.

However, Port Moody has decided that instead of relocating or moving the beavers, they can develop a plan so that the beavers can co-exist with people.  Finding solutions so that we all can live together peacefully is our responsibility.

This is our local beaver.

Listen to this story about the Busy Beaver.

How did beaver learn to show more respect for his community?

Indigenous people believe that all living things are connected.

There is a strong relationship between the Indigenous people, the environment and the northwest coast animals.

• Different animals symbolize and represent human traits, values and characteristics.
• On many totem poles, animals often represent families crests or clans and are used to tell a story.

The Beaver

• Beaver is a diligent collaborator
• Beaver represents the ways of knowing our Social Responsibility.
• Through Beaver, we can learn to care for our community and environment by valuing diversity, advocating for others and working together for a greater good.

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