Our classroom lessons this month will continue to focus on problem solving skills!

KINDERGARTEN: Ready to Solve Problems

Students will learn how to apply their emotion management skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict. With adult support, students will be able to name "feeling calm" as a helpful first step for problem-solving in a given scenario.

FIRST GRADE: Was It An Accident?

Students will learn how to apply their emotion management skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict. With adult support, students will be able to identify problems caused by accidents and demonstrate an appropriate response.

SECOND GRADE: Thinking of Solutions

Students learn how to apply their emotion management, communication, and empathy skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict. Goals of our lessons include being able generate multiple solutions to solve a given problem.

THIRD GRADE: Think and Explore

Students learn how to apply their emotion management, communication, and empathy skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict. Students will be able to identify whose wants are met by possible solutions.

FOURTH GRADE: Exploring Outcomes

Students learn how to apply their emotion management, communication, and perspective-taking skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict. Students will be able to evaluate possible outcomes of a solution from each person's point of view.

FIFTH GRADE: When? Where? Who?

Students learn how to apply their emotion management, communication, and perspective-taking skills to solve interpersonal problems and demonstrate strategies for effectively dealing with interpersonal conflict. Students will be able to identify when, where, and with whom it makes sense to work on different problems.

Home links are fun activities that encourage interaction between your child and adults at home. The activities provide students with a chance to practice Second Step skills outside of school and help families learn about the skills so that they are able to utilize them at home.

We have been focusing on empathy, identifying their own and others' feelings, noticing and respecting same and different feelings, and showing you care about how someone else is feeling. This leads into our diversity and inclusion lessons this month. When students can understand and respond in a caring way to how someone else is feeling, it creates a positive school climate.

Please click the links below which teach specifically about empathy and why it is important. These links also include fun activities to do with your child at home to help them identify feelings and practice empathy and compassion.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Meghan Medlock

Email: mmedlock@scsmustangs.org
Location: 19091 Waterford Pkwy, Strongsville, OH 44149, USA
Phone: 440.268.5445