Celebrating Our Communities: Celebrating All Families

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TIPS FOR CAREGIVERS Social and emotional learning SEL helps children manage emotions learn how to feel empathy create and achieve goals and make good decisions Strong lessons and support in SEL will help children establish positive habits in communication cooperation and decision-making By incorporating SEL in early reading children will learn the importance of accepting and celebrating all people in their communities BEFORE READING Talk to the reader about families Ask what he or she thinks a family is Discuss What is one way your family is like another family you know What is one way your family is different AFTER READING Talk to the reader about ways he or she can celebrate his or her family’s differences with others Discuss What is one way you can celebrate your family How can you accept another family Why is it good for members of a community to accept one another SEL GOAL Children may have a loose understanding of acceptance Talk to readers about the importance of empathy in accepting and celebrating the differences of others Have they ever felt singled out for having a different family What did it feel like If they haven’t experienced this ask them to imagine what it feels like Make a list of these different feelings Then ask readers to list the feelings they have when they are included and accepted Explain that our communities are better when everyone is accepted and included