Accepting Consequences

Grade: Primary
Time: 30 minutes
Material: None
Objective: Students will apologize for wrongdoings.

Instructions:
1. Initiate a discussion about the importance of apologizing when one does something
wrong.

2. Identify the skill components.
• Look at the person to whom you are speaking.
• Use the person’s name.
• State what you did wrong.

3. Model the skill components. Have students practice saying, “I am sorry,___________, for ___________________.” The students will take turns apologizing for the following
situations.
• Knocking books off the shelf.
• Spilling water on the floor.
• Ripping a page in a book.
• Tearing paper off the bulletin board.
• Marking a wall with crayon.
• Kicking another student.
• Spilling the pencil sharpener contents.
Extension:
• Read and discuss Once A Mouse.