Unit 3: Empathy & Kindness

November 14 - December 20

Click here to download a PDF of an overview of this unit. This handout includes what your child is learning and ways you can practice at home.

Lesson 11: What’s Empathy?

In this lesson, students will learn that empathy means feeling or understanding what someone else is feeling, and that empathy can lead to kindness.

You Can Try This at Home

Ask your child to tell you what empathy means.

Lesson 12: Empathy in Action

In this lesson, students will describe a time they had empathy for someone and how it affected their thoughts and actions.

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Ask your child to tell you about a time they had empathy for someone.

Lesson 13: Having Empathy

In this lesson, students will practice having empathy to come up with kind acts they could do for others in different situations.

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Ask your child how having empathy can help them know how to be kind.

Lesson 14: Empathy at School

In this lesson, students will use empathy to come up with a kind act they could do for a person in their school community.

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Ask your child what member of their school community they had empathy for and what kind act they chose to do for that person.

Lesson 15: Empathy and Kindness

In this lesson, students will use empathy to come up with a kind act they could do for a person they choose.

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Ask your child who they chose to have empathy for and what kind act they decided to do.

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