5th Grade
Healthy vs Unhealthy Friendship Skills
Relational Aggression: Gossip & Rumor Spreading: Trouble Talk Lesson Parent Letter
Resisting Peer Pressure using Assertion
Fifth Grade "Stand Up for Myself" Strategies from Mrs. Scaglia
Help Your Child Deal With Peer Pressure South Brunswick Schools Parent Brochure
For some other helpful tips see these two articles from Great Schools:
Six Ways to Help Your Child Deal With Peer Pressure
Five Steps to Resist Peer Pressure
For suggestions of other books you can read at home with your child on Assertion, check out a few of my favorite ones here.
Establishing/Respecting Personal Boundaries
Boundaries Lesson Parent Letter
For some other helpful tips, see the great article below from The Child Mind Institute:
Teaching Kids About Boundaries: Why empathy and self-awareness play a major role
Cyberbullying
Parent Cyberbullying Resources:
At the end of our 5th grade Cyberbullying Unit, students are given at least one of the following pamphlets about keeping kids safe online to bring home to their parents:
Help Your Child Use Social Media Safely (NJ Department of Children & Families)
Keeping Your Child Safe on the Internet (NJ Department of Children & Families)
Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online (Federal Trade Commission)
If you would like additional copies of any of these pamphlets, feel free to reach out to me.