1st Grade Guidance

First Grade learned about Empathy today! We read How do i Stand in your Shoes?, by Susan DeBell, Ph.D.  In the story, Miranda Peabody learns that empathy means trying to understand how her classmates feel. Of course if we're trying to understand how others feel we have to a good feeling words vocabulary! We learned new feeling words using a silly Mood Swings flip chart. First grade students also practiced showing empathy by guessing how my stuffed animal friend felt when he could not find his favorite toy this morning and when he got into my desk drawer and ate a whole bag of chocolate candy! The students demonstrated this by either writing feeling words or drawing a picture and sharing the feeling words.