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

• Practicing Conflict Resolution: the ability to find peaceful solutions

• Identify and determine size of problem 

• Communicate emotion 

• Make a choice to resolve the conflict

• Leadership: the ability to positively influence and support others

Executive Functioning: Responsibility, Perseverance, and Courage

• Organization: keeping track of time and things

• Time management skills (prioritize, plan) 

• Organizing materials

• Goal-setting: setting an important target that you can work towards: 

•Plan, prioritize and put into action 

• Accountability

Emotion Regulation: Gratitude, Honesty, and Creativity

• Noticing and Naming Emotions and using Emotion Regulation Tools

• Positive Self-Talk: the ability to utilize positivity through thought awareness

•Notice negative self-talk • Reframe • Practice positive self-talk

• Stress Management: learn and use strategies for coping with stress 

• Notice the body’s reaction to feeling stress 

• Create plans and practice strategies to regulate stress