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Check the 6th Grade Weekly Reminders each week
The Growing Pains of Middle School (August 2024): Routines and habits to support your 6th grader at home.
Parent Communication (Access is for 2024-2025 current families only)
Meet the Case Manager (August)
LaChapell: Meet the case manager
How do I help my child to thrive in sixth grade?
Write it down!!!
Teach them to write down important reminders (notebook, sticky notes, planner, calendars, or (Google Keep.). Fear and anxiety put our brains in a bad place for learning. To reduce stress, help your child learn how to write down important reminders, due dates, etc.
Make sure they turn in all their work.
The easiest way to do this is to get a notification whenever they miss an assignment or get a low grade. Step-by-step directions for setting up notifications in GCS Backpack
. Celebrate their successes!!
Whatever behavior gets the most attention (negative or positive) wins. To get more responsibility and independence, praise your child's efforts along the way. Let me know your child's favorite treats so I can reward them too!
Organization, Organization, Organization!!
It's a hard skill to learn but it is a necessary lifeskill for any path in life. Help them organize their work so they can learn to do it on their own soon. These type of binders work best for middle school:
Through Transformative Social Emotional Learning (tSEL), students and adults develop social and emotional skills needed for school and community engagement, with a focus on rights and responsibilities for creating learning environments that are caring and just. This includes a focus on:
Identity, a core part of self-awareness, which refers to how students (and adults) view themselves as individuals and as part of the world around them. Having a healthy sense of identity buffers against negative or traumatic experiences and contributes to positive academic, social, and emotional outcomes.
Agency, part of self-management, or feeling empowered to make choices and take actions that produce a positive difference. Agency helps young people make choices about learning and career goals, overcome personal challenges, and shape the course of their lives.
Belonging, part of social awareness, the experience of acceptance, respect, and inclusion within a group or community. Having a sense of belonging is critical to well-being, motivation, and achievement.
Collaborative Problem-Solving, part of relationship skills, the ability to build shared understanding and work together to come to solutions by pooling knowledge, skills, and efforts.
Curiosity, part of responsible decision-making, which leads to the pursuit of knowledge and different perspectives and contributes to attention, engagement, and learning.
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