Puzzles!

Not exactly what you are thinking...not an "actual 24-piece puzzle"...

As part of the Social Awareness bundle from Proud to Be Primary there are two pieces puzzles to put together. One pieces examples what happen, and the other piece is how to show empathy.  

We completed it whole group.  These are great. The scenarios are all over the board. I like that because I feel like we talk about the same ones over and over again, so this gives us more things to discuss on how to treat people.  Some of them I never would have thought of. 

I make double copies of the puzzle pieces with two different colors.  The scenarios in one color, the empathy cards in another. This will make it easier to sort when teaching it to the students. 

I'll read the scenarios (A friend's cat is missing). Then we discuss it. We don't look for answer first, we discuss how we would react to it.  Then we look and read though the empathy cards to find the correct one (You could help look for her missing cat around the neighborhood). 

Extension: If you want to extend this lesson.  Each student could make their own puzzle pieces and add it to the anchor chart. They could write on the puzzle pieces or draw pictures.