Our Mrs. Stolfa helps students learn and practice great social skills each month. Please take note of the lesson for this month.
April’s Social Skills Lesson
Today, your child was presented a social skills class coordinated by our counseling team.
We began with a review of our school wide theme of “GRRR”: Granite Grizzlies are Responsible, Respectful and Ready to learn! The social skills classes each month will provide the skills to “GRRR”!
- We participated in a mindfulness breathing and relaxing exercise.
- We also reviewed “If you don’t show it, they won’t know it!”
- Today’s topics:
- Self-Control: Review what to do when angry-using our steps of: Stop, breathe, and count 2. Think what you are mad about and 3. Use a sentence that starts with “I feel”.
- Tattling /vs./Telling: Tattling is when we are trying to get the other person in trouble. Telling is when we are trying to get help.
- Teasing: How it can be risky. You (Kids) are growing and changing everyday. What is funny one day may not be the next. We risk unintentionally insulting another person.
- Bullying: Review definition of bullying and how is can be different then a mere argument between two people. NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT YOU. YOU ARE SPECIAL!
- Definition: When someone intentionally, over and over, tries to hurt you with his or her body or words to make him/herself feel bigger/more powerful.
- Special steps to deal with Bullying:
- Avoid
- Ignore
- Move Away
- Ask the other person to stop
- Tell the other person to stop
- Tell a trusted adult
Please discuss with your child what he/she has learned from this lesson. It can provide a wonderful form of reinforcement of essential interpersonal skills.
