Grade 5 Lesson Overviews:

• Unit 1 Skills for Learning: learning about building empathy, listening attentively, communicating assertively, respecting differences, understanding complex feelings, accepting different perspectives, disagreeing respectfully, and responding with compassion.

• Unit 2 Emotion Management: identifying how emotions affect the brain and body, calming strategies to self-regulate, managing feelings of anxiety and frustration effectively, resisting revenge and avoiding assumptions.

• Unit 3 Problem solving: exploring consequences of problems, seeking support to handle conflict, dealing with gossip, the impact of peer pressure and practicing these strategies. 

• Your child will be learning life-long skills to build healthy relationships and will require your support throughout the year. Families can join SecondStep.org with the Activation Key: SSP5 FAMI LY75 to access information for you to understand what your child is learning. 

Bullying Prevention Unit:

• Lesson 1 Recognizing Bullying: students will learn to identify and recognize bullying in scenario discussions.

• Lesson 2 Reporting Bullying: students will demonstrate methods of reporting bullying.

• Lesson 3 Refusing bullying: students learn to apply assertive communication skills to refuse bullying.

• Lesson 4 Bystander Power: students will learn how to stop bullying by avoiding to be a bystander.

• Families can join SecondStep.org with the Activation Key: BPU45FAMI LY05 to access videos and get information about what your child is learning in the Bullying Prevention Unit.

Child Protection Unit:

• Lesson 1 Ways to stay safe: students will learn to identify common safety rules. 

• Lesson 2 Always ask first rule: how to identify asking a trusted adult for guidance.

• Lesson 3 Safe and Unsafe Touches: identify, refuse and report unsafe touches.

• Lesson 4 Keeping private parts private: identifying body parts and when to report situations where someone breaks the touching rule. 

• Lesson 5 Practicing staying safe: learning to avoid keeping unsafe secrets. 

• Lesson 6 Reviewing safety skills: practicing continued reporting until someone helps.

• Families can join SecondStep.org with the Activation Key: CPU5 FAMI LYG5 to access videos and get information about what your child is learning in the Child Protection Unit.