Lesson Plan

Self-Care Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Discover what fills you up: feelings, sleep, slow breathing and a menu you build.

This is the Middles Edition of Self-Care: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: What do my body, feelings and mind each need to feel steady, and how can I tell?

The Week

• Mon: Body, Feelings, Mind (Reading) • Tue: Inner Coach Words (Writing & Words) • Wed: Heartbeat Lab (Science & Math) • Thu: Build Your Menu (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Teach the Steps (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Self-Care has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Heartbeat Lab
• Sequence cards (Handling a Hard Moment) and a cut-and-sort page (Body, Feelings or Mind?)
• Writing page: A Letter to Me on a Hard Day
• Hands-on project: Pocket Calm Kit
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 4 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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