Learning intention
- To explore ways to establish a safe and supportive learning community.
Success criteria
- I can explain why it is important to
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Start the lesson by encouraging students to remember the Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) skills they have practiced and learned in previous grades. Ask them to reflect on what being a good friend, solving problems, and making good decisions meant in Kindergarten and First Grade. Discuss with the class what they think they might learn this year…
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Differentiation
Students needing additional support:
- Should be given a list of possible rules and choose which ones they think are most important (see Teacher knowledge for examples).
Students needing additional challenge:
- Should come up with ways the class can remember and follow their rules.
- Could be encouraged to think about rules in other communities.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Students with good understanding will be able to:
- Explain how classroom rules
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Vocabulary definitions
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community
A group of people who live, learn, or work together and support one another.
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respect
Showing care and understanding for others and their feelings.
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In this unit
Introductory Lesson: Setting Classroom Rules
Lesson 1: A mix of feelings
Lesson 2: Self-regulation
Lesson 3: Setting Boundaries
Lesson 4: Perseverance
Lesson 5: Thought sort
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 6th January, 2026
Lesson 1: A mix of feelings
Understanding that a person can feel multiple feelings at one time.
Lesson 2: Self-regulation
Discovering calming strategies to help manage different feelings in different situations.
Lesson 4: Perseverance
Learning about perseverance and how to apply it to tasks.
Lesson 3: Setting Boundaries
Using sentence stems to communicate needs and wants.
