Ages 5–8🤝 Personal & Social DevelopmentBeing planted

Vocabulary: understanding others

Know and use the key vocabulary for understanding others — empathy, perspective, kind, fair, community, similar, different, and care — and understand that these words describe real habits of thinking and feeling

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What a child can do after this Skill

Use the word 'empathy' correctly and distinguish it from 'sympathy' — e.g. 'Empathy means I try to feel what they feel'
Explain what 'perspective' and 'point of view' mean and demonstrate by describing how two people might see the same event differently
Use words like 'community', 'belonging', and 'inclusion' accurately when talking about their school or neighbourhood

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