Skills For Success
25-26 Quarter 1 Unit Updates
The District 300 Skills for Success program supports students in becoming confident and responsible learners. This class meets once per week for 30 minutes. Students K-5 will participate in activities to support executive functioning skills with an emphasis on goal setting, accountability, collaboration, exploring a wide rage of careers and interests, problem solving, financial literacy, and keyboarding. It is recommend that students engage in Typing Club practice for at least 30 minutes per week outside of class. By the end of the year, keyboard mastery is assessed by 1st graders being able to type 5 words per minute, 2nd graders being able to type 10 words per minute, 3rd graders being able to type 15 words per minute, 4th graders being able to type 20 words per minute, and 5th grade students being able to type 25 words per minute. Students will take a second (of three) benchmark tests in late January.
El programa Habilidades para el Éxito del Distrito 300 apoya a los estudiantes para que se conviertan en estudiantes seguros y responsables. Esta clase se reúne una vez por semana durante 30 minutos. Los estudiantes de K-5 participarán en actividades para apoyar las habilidades del funcionamiento ejecutivo con énfasis en el establecimiento de objetivos, la responsabilidad, la colaboración, la exploración de una amplia gama de carreras e intereses, la resolución de problemas, la educación financiera y la mecanografía. Se recomienda que los estudiantes participen en la práctica de Typing Club durante al menos 30 minutos por semana fuera de clase. Al final de año, el dominio del teclado es evaluado cuando los estudiantes de primer grado pueden escribir 5 palabras por minuto, los de segundo grado pueden escribir 10 palabras por minuto, los de tercer grado pueden escribir 15 palabras por minuto y los de cuarto grado pueden escribir 20 palabras por minuto y los estudiantes de quinto grado puedan escribir 25 palabras por minuto. Los estudiantes tomarán una segunda (de tres) pruebas comparativas a finales de enero.
Puzzle Time
Working Together
Sportsmanship
Los estudiantes de kínder han terminado una unidad sobre “Herramientas Escolares”. Han aprendido por qué tenemos reglas en la escuela, a escuchar con todo el cuerpo, cómo tener una mentalidad de crecimiento y aceptar el “poder del TODAVÍA”, a defender sus derechos o pedir ayuda adecuadamente, y a diferenciar entre un problema pequeño que pueden resolver de forma independiente y un problema grande que requiere la ayuda de un adulto.
1st grade has completed a unit on “School Tools.” They learned about the value of having routines, prioritizing things they have to do and want to do, setting goals (glows and grows), how to ask for help assertively, the difference between tattling and reporting, and ways to have a growth mindset.
2nd grade has completed a unit on “Responsibility and Accountability.” They discussed ways to show responsibility at home and at school, prioritizing tasks they want to do and need to do, being accountable to others through our friendships, making choices that result in positive or negative consequences, integrity, and turn and talk protocols. 2nd Grade is working hard on being a strong partner and part of a group.
3rd grade has completed a unit on “Responsibility and Accountability.” They learned about various ways to stay organized, prioritizing tasks they do after school, integrity, being active listers (they got to play telephone), and making choices that lead to good and bad outcomes.
- 4th grade has completed a unit on “Responsibility and Accountability.” They learned about what respect looks like, feels like, and sounds like. They also discussed ownership of their choices, and being accountable to friends. Finally, 4th graders learned about how to advocate for themselves by using 5 steps including an assertive tone of voice.
5th grade has completed a unit on Teamwork. They created a T chart showing what is and is not getting along and shared them with their class, they learned about various types of communication (passive, assertive, aggressive), they built on one another’s ideas using the “yes and” exercise, and learned about teamwork by spending two class periods playing games.