Weekly Lessons
September 14- September 18
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This week, students are reviewing our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework, focusing on four core expectations across all school settings:
Being Safe: Making careful choices to keep everyone secure.
Being Respectful: Treating others and property with kindness.
Being Responsible: Owning our actions, routines, and schoolwork.
Being Christlike: Showing love, compassion, and humility.
What You Can Do at Home:
Discuss: Ask your child how they practice these four values at school.
Praise: Celebrate when your child acts responsibly or kindly.
Model: Demonstrate grace and compassion in daily family interactions.
Growth Mindset
Kindergartners are learning that it’s okay if schoolwork feels hard! Mistakes help our brains learn and grow stronger every day.
Why It's Important: Building a growth mindset helps children tackle challenges with confidence, view mistakes as opportunities, and build resilience.
Ways to Support at Home:
Praise Effort: Celebrate hard work and practice rather than just the right answer.
Use "Yet": Remind them, "You can't do it yet, but practice builds your brain!"
Normalize Mistakes: Share your own daily mistakes and what you learned from them.
Encourage Brain Workouts: Frame tough tasks as exercises that make their brains stronger.
Self-Regulation: Feelings
First graders practice identifying comfortable and uncomfortable emotions while noticing body clues that show if they are regulated or dysregulated.
Why It's Important: Connecting feelings to physical clues builds self-awareness, laying the foundation for self-regulation and managing big emotions.
Ways to Support at Home:
Notice Body Clues: Ask where they feel emotions in their body (e.g., tight tummy or fast heart).
Normalize Feelings: Reassure them that all feelings—comfortable or uncomfortable—are okay.
Practice Resets: Model simple tools like deep belly breaths or quiet breaks to return to calm.
Label Emotions: Name feelings together in everyday moments and storybooks.
Bounce or Splat
Second graders are learning what it means to cope and move on from a problem, while practicing tools to work through tough moments.
Why It's Important: Developing resilience helps students bounce back from setbacks, manage frustration, and adapt when things don't go as planned.
Ways to Support at Home:
Build a Toolkit: Practice strategies like deep breathing, counting to 10, or taking a quick break when overwhelmed.
Practice While Calm: Rehearse coping tools together before big emotions happen.
Focus on Solutions: Ask, "What can we do to solve this or move forward?"
Praise Resilience: Notice and celebrate when your child tries to move past a mistake or challenge.
Coping Skills
Third graders are learning what coping skills are, why we use them, and their four main categories.
Why It's Important: Healthy coping strategies help students manage stress, build resilience, and make positive choices.
What Students Are Learning:
What Are They? Tools to manage big emotions like anger, worry, or sadness.
Benefits vs. Consequences: Coping skills help us stay calm and focused. Ignoring emotions can lead to stress or poor choices.
Support at Home:
Practice: Try deep breathing together during stressful moments.
Model: Show how you handle tough moments using healthy tools.
Mental Health and Wellness
Fourth graders learn what helps vs. hurts emotional well-being and recognize signs that indicate it's time to ask for help.
Why It's Important: Early awareness helps students name their emotions, practice basic self-care, and learn that asking for help is a sign of strength.
Ways to Support at Home:
Talk About Feelings: Check in daily and normalize sharing all emotions.
Build Healthy Habits: Focus on consistent sleep, physical activity, and balanced screen time.
Name Trusted Adults: Help your child identify adults at home and school they can turn to when overwhelmed.
Model Self-Care: Show that taking breaks and seeking help are healthy habits for everyone.
Goals
Fifth graders practice setting personal targets, breaking them into manageable steps, and building perseverance to reach them.
Why It's Important: Setting goals builds self-confidence, motivation, and task management skills. As students prepare for middle school, tracking their own growth fosters independence and resilience when facing challenges.
Ways to Support at Home:
Set Simple Goals: Help your child create clear targets, like reading daily or organizing their backpack.
Praise Effort: Celebrate hard work and persistence rather than just the final result.
Track Progress: Use a visual chart or journal to celebrate small wins along the way.
Learn from Setbacks: View mistakes as opportunities to adjust and keep trying.
Self-Management
Self-Management
Self-management is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and resources effectively across different situations. It involves core Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies like goal setting, impulse control, time management, stress regulation, and personal accountability.
Why Self-Management is Critical in Middle School
Why Self-Management is Critical in Middle School
Middle school marks a significant developmental transition where students face increased academic demands, complex social dynamics, and rapid brain development.
Lesson: Strengths to Goals
Students identify personal strengths, traits, and abilities, connecting them to goal achievement and self-worth. Through class discussions, peer compliments, interactive stories, and goal-tracking exercises, students learn to plan actionable steps, accept support from others, and leverage their unique talents to persevere toward meaningful personal and academic goals.
Why It's Important: Recognizing individual strengths builds core confidence and intrinsic motivation. When middle schoolers understand how to align their natural abilities with intentional goal-setting, they develop resilience, learn to seek help when needed, and stay persistent through challenges.
At Home:
Discuss Strengths: Ask your child to share three personal strengths they appreciate about themselves and how those strengths help them in daily life.
Support Goal Progress: Talk through the goals they have set, celebrate small milestones, and remind them that asking for help is a sign of strength.
Encourage Perseverance: Highlight moments where using their strengths helped them overcome a difficult task or set-back.
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