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Color. Learn. Grow. Together.
Partin PTA is excited to support our school’s Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum with a fun, yearlong coloring challenge that helps our All Stars build important life skills—one page at a time!
Throughout the school year, Partin students are learning important social-emotional and life skills through the Overcoming Obstacles curriculum. These lessons focus on skills like cooperation, responsibility, respect, integrity, kindness, perseverance, conflict resolution and more.
Our PTA Social-Emotional Learning Challenge gives families a simple way to continue those lessons at home, while giving students a fun way to show what they’ve learned.
📱 Families: Scan, Learn & Talk!
📱 Families: Scan, Learn & Talk!
See that QR code on your child’s coloring sheet? You’re in the right place!
Each month, this page will help families better understand the featured SEL skill and provide easy ideas for continuing the conversation at home.
You don’t need a lesson plan or special materials. These skills can be practiced during dinner, in the car, while playing a game, doing chores, working through a disagreement, or simply talking about your child’s day.
The goal isn’t perfection. It’s giving our children opportunities to practice, grow and keep trying.
❤️💙 How the Challenge Works
❤️💙 How the Challenge Works
Each month, students will receive an SEL-themed coloring page connected to a skill they are learning at school.
Each month, students will receive an SEL-themed coloring page connected to a skill they are learning at school.
Students can color the page at home while families talk about what that skill means and how they can practice it in everyday life.
When the page is complete:
⭐ Write the student’s name and teacher’s name on the coloring sheet.
🖍️ Complete the coloring page.
📥 Drop it in the PTA Coloring Challenge Box located in the front office.
🎨 Look for student artwork displayed in the cafeteria!
Partin PTA will collect the completed pages and use them to create a colorful schoolwide display celebrating what our All Stars are learning.
⭐ Every Page Counts!
⭐ Every Page Counts!
This challenge is about much more than coloring.
By connecting what students are learning at school with conversations and experiences at home, we can help our children grow into caring, responsible and resilient community members.
And along the way, we’ll fill Partin with artwork showing just how much our All Stars are learning and growing.
All Stars: Color your page, write your name AND teacher’s name, and drop it in the PTA Coloring Challenge Box in the front office!
All Stars: Color your page, write your name AND teacher’s name, and drop it in the PTA Coloring Challenge Box in the front office!
🍦 Complete the Challenge & Earn a Sweet Reward!
🍦 Complete the Challenge & Earn a Sweet Reward!
Students who complete and turn in all 8 coloring pages throughout the school year will earn an invitation to a special Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream Party at the end of the year!
So don’t forget to turn in each month’s page—every page counts!
🤝 October’s SEL Theme: BE RESPONSIBLE
🤝 October’s SEL Theme: BE RESPONSIBLE
What is being responsible?
What is being responsible?
Being responsible means making good choices, doing what is expected of us, and taking ownership of our actions.
For our younger All Stars, that starts with understanding that everyone has responsibilities and learning to take care of the jobs that belong to them. The lesson also teaches that being responsible helps others trust and depend on us and that our actions can have consequences.
Our older All Stars take that idea a step further by thinking about the connection between choices and consequences and learning how to accept responsibility when they make a mistake.
The big idea for every All Star?
I am responsible for the choices I make—and when I make a mistake, I can take ownership, learn from it, and make a better choice next time. ⭐
💬 Talk About It at Home
💬 Talk About It at Home
Try working some of these questions naturally into your conversations:
What are some things you’re responsible for at home? At school?
What does it feel like when someone knows they can count on you?
What could happen if you don’t take care of one of your responsibilities?
Tell me about a responsible choice you made today.
If you make a mistake, what can you do to take responsibility for it?
For older students, you can take the conversation a little further:
“What could you do differently next time?”
That’s an important part of the 3–5 lesson: students practice reflecting on their choices instead of making excuses or blaming someone else.
There aren’t necessarily right or wrong answers. The goal is to help kids recognize that their choices matter and they have the power to make things right when mistakes happen.
🏠 Practice Responsibility at Home
🏠 Practice Responsibility at Home
Everyday family life is full of opportunities for children to practice responsibility!
Take Care of Your Things
Take Care of Your Things
Encourage your child to keep track of their backpack, homework, water bottle and other belongings instead of relying on an adult to remember everything for them.
Have a Job at Home
Have a Job at Home
Give your child an age-appropriate responsibility they can own—feeding a pet, making their bed, putting away laundry, setting the table or completing another family chore.
Follow Through
Follow Through
Encourage your child to complete something they’ve agreed to do without needing repeated reminders. For younger students especially, responsibilities should be age-appropriate.
Own Your Choices
Own Your Choices
When something goes wrong, help your child focus on their own actions rather than immediately looking for someone else to blame.
Learn From Mistakes
Learn From Mistakes
Responsibility doesn’t mean never making a mistake! For older All Stars, the Overcoming Obstacles lesson teaches students to tell the truth, apologize or make things right, accept the consequence, think about what they could do differently, and then move forward.
⭐ Praise Responsibility When You See It!
⭐ Praise Responsibility When You See It!
One of the easiest ways to reinforce responsibility is simply to notice it.
Instead of only saying “Good job!”, try naming the responsible behavior you saw:
“I noticed you remembered that without being asked!”
“Thank you for following through on what you said you would do.”
“I knew I could count on you!”
“I like how you told the truth and took responsibility for what happened.”
“You made a mistake, figured out how to make it right, and learned from it. That’s being responsible.”
🌎 Our Circles of Responsibility
🌎 Our Circles of Responsibility
As children grow, so do their responsibilities.
Encourage your All Star to think about how their choices can make a difference in each of these areas:
Taking care of my belongings, completing my work and making healthy choices.
Helping at home, keeping promises and doing my part.
Following expectations, taking care of our school and being someone others can count on.
Taking care of shared spaces and thinking about how my choices affect others.
Looking for previous month's lessons?
Looking for previous month's lessons?
Misplaced your All Star’s coloring sheet and need to print a new one? 🖍️ Or looking for a refresher on how to reinforce important SEL skills at home?
Click on any month below to revisit previous lessons, download coloring sheets, and explore family-friendly conversation starters and activities to keep the learning going!
⭐ Every lesson is another opportunity to learn, grow, and shine!
Partin PTA’s Social-Emotional Learning Challenge supports and extends the Overcoming Obstacles curriculum used at Partin Elementary School. Learn more at OvercomingObstacles.org.
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