Building Social Skills Through Read Alouds ( Ongoing for 6-9 Year Olds)

Is your child easily frustrated, quick to quit, struggling to gain skills to preservere through the struggle of learning life social skills.  In this fun course your child will join me for engaging read alouds, group discussions, role playing games and hands on activities.

What they'll learn:  What is mindfulness and how to embrace challenges, learn how to flip negative thoughts, recognize their strengths, set goals,  manage emotions,  and so much more. 
This ongoing course will be divided into 6 week sessions. Each focusing on one social emotional concept allowing your child to continue for many sessions with no repeated lessons. 

Topics covered will include: Growth Mindset, Doing Your Best, Achieving Excellence, 
 Encouraging Others, Never Giving Up, Empathy and Caring.  Through these topics we will understand our emotions, strengths and confidence, importance of honesty, goal setting, self-management, coping skills, impulse control, respect, gratitude, kindness, friendships, communication, apologizing, teamwork and conflict resolution. 

How the course works: 
   Class will begin with a Welcome & Check-In through a variety of  fun ways to express how we’re feeling today.
   Then we will Listen to a read aloud Story recording.
   Next we will  Discuss & Explore through Guided questions to help learners connect to the topic.
   Followed by Hands-On Learning that ranges from Role-playing, drawing, games, or SEL exercises.
   Finally end with a Wrap-Up & Takeaway – A simple practice learners can use at home to reinforce your child's learning. 
Most importantly, students and parents will have the opportunity to provide the teacher feedback and ask any questions about their individual child's struggles with topics allowing me to help parents raise confident, resilient problem solvers. 

Teaching Style: I love to help everyone feel welcome and make learning fun by keeping things  exciting and energetic. 
Interaction:  Participation is encouraged so you will get lots of chances to participate and share your thoughts. Lessons will revolve around an engaging live read aloud, fun slides and engaging discussions to keep it fun for everyone.  

The course will be ongoing but can be joined at anytime.  Each 6 week session will be focus on one topic, new students can join anytime there are no prerequisites.  

Syllabus:  
Week 1-6: Growth Mindset
Week 7-12: Do Your Best
Week 13-18: Achieving Excellence
Week 19-24: Encourage Others
Week 25-30: Never Give Up
Week 31-36: Empathy
Week 37-42: Caring

First 12 weeks are detailed below. More will be added as course progresses...

Week 1-6 Growth Mindset

Week 1:  What is Mindfulness Read Aloud Book: Mindfulness Makes Me Stronger.
Week 2: Growth vs Fixed Mindset- Read Aloud Book: Bubble Gum Brain Ready Get Mindset Grow
Week 3: How Can I Help my Brain to Grow? Read Aloud Book: Your Fantastic Elastic Brain.
Week 4: How to meditate to calm our strong emotions Read Aloud Book: The Lemonade Hurricane. 
Week 5:  The Power of Yet- Read Aloud Book: The Magical Yet
Week 6:  Nobody's Perfect Read Aloud Book: A Perfectly Messed Up Story 

Week 7-12: Do Your Best

Week 7: Every Person's Best is not the Same. Read Aloud Book: Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great
Week 8: I Can do what you do and more.  Read Aloud Calvin Can't Fly
Week 9: Frustration into Perseverance Read Aloud Book: The Girl Who Makes a Million Mistakes
Week 10: Uniqueness of Me. Read Aloud Book:  Just a Duck?
Week 11:  Determination. Read Aloud: The Most Magnificient Thing
Week 12: Try, Try, Try until you Succeed. Read Aloud Book: Colinda
More to come...