Celebrating Our Comunities: Celebrating All Personalities

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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 personalities Explain that personality has to do with how someone behaves and acts Give examples of different personality traits Discuss How would you describe your personality How would you describe the personalities of your friends and family members How are they similar or different AFTER READING Talk to the reader about ways he or she can celebrate differences with others Discuss What is one way you can accept another person’s personality Why should we accept others Why is it good for a community to celebrate all people SEL GOAL Children may have a loose understanding of acceptance and differences in personalities Split the students into pairs grouping students together who have seemingly different personalities Prompt questions for them to ask one another Talk to readers about the importance of empathy in accepting and celebrating the differences of others Explain that our communities are better when everyone is accepted and included