Here is an outline of topics we will cover this year and the character strengths will we learn alongside them:

Social Skills: Respect, Empathy, and Cooperation

• Friendship: the ability to make and keep friends: 

•Understanding how my actions impact others 

• Communicating with Kindness

• Understanding Conflict Resolution: the ability to identify a conflict and work towards solving it

• Identify the size of the problem 

• Name your emotion 

• Solve: talk it out, move it out, breathe it out

• Perspective-Taking: the ability to consider a situation from the other person’s point of view 

• Work to understand what others may be seeing, thinking, or feeling in different situations 

• Consider how best to respond after understanding others point of view

Executive Functioning: Responsibility, Perseverance, and Courage

• Engagement: being an active participant in school 

• Leading, contributing, and collaborating in groups 

• School and community involvement 

• Active participation in learning

• Flexible Thinking: the ability to adapt to new situations and challenges

• Finding multiple solutions to problems 

• Handling unplanned changes in schedules or situations

Emotion Regulation: Gratitude, Honesty, and Creativity

• Noticing and Naming Emotions and using Emotion Regulation Tools

• Emotion Advocacy: share how I feel and ask for what I need: Use I-statements, I feel ____ when _____ and I would like ______.