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Celebrating Our Communities: Celebrating All Religions

Celebrating Our Communities: Celebrating All Religions — page 1
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 religion Explain that religion has to do with beliefs Explain that the world is full of many different religious beliefs Discuss Do you practice a religion Can you explain what your religion believes Can you name any other religions AFTER READING Talk to the reader about ways he or she can celebrate or respect different religions Discuss What is one way you can respect another person’s religious beliefs Why is it good for a community to respect all beliefs SEL GOAL Children may have heard to not make fun of or exclude others for being different but they may not understand why Talk to readers about the importance of empathy in accepting and celebrating the differences of others Have they ever felt singled out for having different beliefs 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