PRIDE

Kindergarten Lessons are focussed on the following skills:

Kindness 

Goal: Is to build the necessary skills to move from self-awareness to action, offering kindness to the outside world.

• Kindness skill building with the development of social and emotional competencies.

• Lessons include six kindness concepts:Caring, Courage, Respect, Responsibility, Integrity and Inclusiveness; connecting directly back to kindness.

Skills for Learning 

Goal: Is for students to build foundational skills necessary for successful participation in learning.

• Listening   

• Focusing attention  

• Using self-talk 

• Being assertive

Empathy 

Goal: Is to develop students’ ability to have empathy and show compassion for others.

• Identifying one's own and others' feelings  

• Taking others' perspectives

• Showing care and concern for others

Emotion Management 

Goal: Is to develop students’ ability to identify and manage their own strong feelings.

• Understanding strong feelings  

• Identifying and managing strong feelings 

• Calming down strong feelings

• Friendship Skills and Problem Solving 

Friendship Skills and Problem Solving

Goal: Is to develop students’ ability to solve problems in a safe and respectful way and to develop students’ skills for making and keeping friends.

• Making and keeping friends  

• Calming down and using Problem-Solving Steps