Our Curriculum

Dear Family,

Twice a month, Mrs. Beus and I visit your student’s classroom to teach Social Emotional Learning lessons. These SEL lessons are created from the Second Step program (Secondstep.org), 

Mrs. Beus, our Counseling Assistant, is amazing and she teaches grades K-3rd. I teach 4th-6th grades.   We both have years of experience and love teaching students!

The Second Step Lessons focus on…

Skills for Learning

1. Empathy

2. Emotional Management

3. Problem Solving

Growth Mindset & Goal Setting – Children learn how to pay attention and manage distractions, develop a growth mindset, and apply goal-setting strategies to their social and academic lives.

Emotion Management- Children learn how to identify and label emotions and use emotional management strategies – including stress management for older students – to calm strong feelings.

Empathy & Kindness- Children learn how to recognize kindness and act kindly, have empathy for others and take others’ perspectives, and recognize kind acts and empathy as important elements of building and maintaining relationships.

Problem-Solving- Children learn how to identify and state a problem, recognize if a problem is an accident, and use the STEP problem-solving process:

             S:  Say the problem

             T:  Think of Solutions

             E:  Explore the outcomes

             P:  Pick a Solution

Career Month:   April will be Career Month.  We ill have Career Activities and a Career Day!  

Teacher Appreciation:   May will be Teacher Appreciation and our lessons/activities will focus on gratitude.