October SEL - Personal Space

Personal space is the amount of space each of us needs to feel comfortable in our surroundings. In October, all grades will be discussing personal space and what it means to them.

Third Grade:
Learning goal: Students will know what it means to respect others' personal spaces and value their own personal space.
Activities: Short videos on personal space, space bubble experiment, and discussion.

Second Grade:
Learning goal: Students will know situations and people that might cause personal space bubbles to change sizes. Students will also know how to communicate to someone that they would like more space.
Activities: Watch "Close Enough!" on YouTube, discuss sizes of space bubbles, how to know you're in someone's space bubble, and how to ask someone to move out of your space bubble.



First Grade:
Learning goal: Students will learn what personal space bubbles are and why they are important.
Activities: Read and discuss Personal Space Camp by Julia Cook.



Kindergarten:
Learning Goal: Students will learn different ways to kindly tell someone to keep their hands to themselves.
Activities: Watch YouTube Video called "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" and practice saying to others, "Hands off," when someone doesn't keep their hands to themselves.


Key Points for Parents:
  • Space bubbles change sizes for different people and different situations. 
  • We can ask someone to move from our personal space by simply saying, "Please move out of my personal space bubble."
  • People will have different size personal space bubbles in some of the same situations.


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