Information for Parents and Teachers Regarding This Week’s Social Skills Session

Session Date:

Lesson Theme: One-Sided Sid and Un-Wonderer

Information Regarding This Week’s Lesson: We will finish our book, Superflex Takes On One-Sided Sid, Un-Wonderer, and the Team of Unthinkables today. Chapter 6 creates a scene in a school cafeteria and Mary, a student, is having an Unthinkable moment. One-Sided Sid and Un-Wonderer are teaming up to change her thinking. She is with kids from her class, but she is only thinking about herself and only talking about what she wants to talk about.

Chapter 7 talks about signs to watch for to let you know One-Sided Sid and Un-Wonderer have invaded your brain. These are called “Not Interested Clues” and they include:

People not making comments
People not asking questions
People looking away
Bodies turned away from us
Someone trying to change the topic
People are not saying anything at all

There are also “Interested Clues” and they include:

People adding thoughts or comments
People asking questions
People looking at us while we are talking
People nodding their heads as they listen to us talk
People turn their bodies toward us

Chapter 8 provides some strategies to defeat One-Sided Sid and Un-Wonderer:

Add-a-Thought – when someone tells us something, we think about that information. We can try to connect it to our own experience and add that thought to the conversation.

Ask-a-Question – use question words (who, what, where, when, why, how) to show interest in what someone else has to say. This strategy can be combined with the social wonder strategy we discussed in Lesson 14 on Dec. 8.

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