Life Skills to practice:
- Do the Right Thing/Treat People Right Personal Best: In everything we do, trying and giving
your best.
- Active Listening: Listen with your ears, eyes, body, and brain.
- Manners: To use social cues in different situations “Please” and “Thank You”
- Respect: To consider worthy.
- Honesty: To be truthful
- Self-Control: Control exercised over oneself.
- Kindness: (An Action) to be helpful and caring.
- Effort: To do your best.
- Friendship: To make and keep a friend through mutual trust and caring.
- Organization: To plan, arrange, and keep things orderly and ready to use.
- Common Sense: To use good judgment
- Patience: To wait calmly for something or someone without complaining.
- Responsibility: To respond when appropriate; to be accountable for your actions.
- Wellness: To take care of your body and mind.
- Grateful (Gratitude): To be thankful
- Initiative: To do something of one’s own free will.
- Cooperation: To work together toward a common goal and purpose.
- Generosity: To be giving and willing to share.
- Courage: To act according to one’s belief
- Curiosity: A desire to investigate and seek understanding of one’s world
- Pride: To be satisfied by doing your personal best.
- Problem Solving: To create solutions in difficult situations and everyday problems
- Flexibility: To be willing to alter plans when necessary.
- Caring (A Feeling): ‘Walking in someone else’s shoes’/showing concern for others
- Sense of Humor: To laugh and be playful without harming others.
- Fairness: Free from self-interest, partiality, prejudice, or favoritism.
- Personal Best: In everything we do, trying and giving your best.
- Tolerance: To recognize and respect beliefs or practices of others.
- Forgiveness: To stop feeling resentment toward, Move On, Not hold grudge
- Humble: To not be arrogant or haughty (not act better than someone else)
- Integrity: To act according to a sense of what’s right and wrong.
- Perseverance- To keep at it.
- Trustworthy: To be dependable and truthful
As a parent or caregiver you can help by encouraging positive behavior using the life skills above, at home. Positive behavior is a choice and there may be times when a student will choose not to follow expectations. He or she will be encouraged to modify behavior with the following steps:
1.Student is given a reminder
2.Student is given a warning
3. Removal from activity
4.Time deducted from recess
5.Parent contact
6.Final action-Referral to Mr. Richardson
I hope that practicing these skills will help your child learn to become a good citizen and develop a love of learning.