In Kindergarten I will teach from the Second Step curriculum.
The Second Step program teaches skills in the following four areas:
1. Skills for learning: Students gain skills to help themselves learn, including how to focus their attention, listen carefully, use self-talk to stay on task, and be assertive when asking for help with schoolwork.
2. Empathy: Students learn to identify and understand their own and others' feelings. Students also learn how to take another's perspective and how to show compassion.
3. Emotion Management: Students learn specific skills for calming down when experiencing strong feelings, such as anxiety or anger.
4. Problem Solving: Students learn a process for solving problems with others in a positive way.
Throughout the year, your child will be bringing home Home Links that go with several of the Second Step lessons. Home Links are fun activities for you and your child to complete together. This is a great way for you to reinforce what your child is learning.
Some of my other lessons include a review of what a school counselor does, students will also spend some time learning about a variety of traditional and nontraditional occupations, and their personal abilities, skills and interests. Our last lesson will focus on what they learned during the year and transitioning to first grade.
The Second Step program teaches skills in the following four areas:
1. Skills for learning: Students gain skills to help themselves learn, including how to focus their attention, listen carefully, use self-talk to stay on task, and be assertive when asking for help with schoolwork.
2. Empathy: Students learn to identify and understand their own and others' feelings. Students also learn how to take another's perspective and how to show compassion.
3. Emotion Management: Students learn specific skills for calming down when experiencing strong feelings, such as anxiety or anger.
4. Problem Solving: Students learn a process for solving problems with others in a positive way.
Throughout the year, your child will be bringing home Home Links that go with several of the Second Step lessons. Home Links are fun activities for you and your child to complete together. This is a great way for you to reinforce what your child is learning.
Some of my other lessons include a review of what a school counselor does, students will also spend some time learning about a variety of traditional and nontraditional occupations, and their personal abilities, skills and interests. Our last lesson will focus on what they learned during the year and transitioning to first grade.