Dear Parents,

 

Your third grader has an exciting year ahead.  We’ve learned about getting along with each other, and practiced our social skills. Now we are going to learn to be Peace Makers, how to manage homework time, reduce stress, and make healthy choices. 

 

The third grade Life Skills curriculum uses pieces from several resources; The Peace Scholars Curriculum, Stress Management and Me, a teacher-designed study skills unit, Creative Conflict Solving for Kids, and Be Cool.  There will be stories and activities that are designed to teach children how to be Peace Makers in their families and in their friendships.  We will also begin Study Skills work to help children manage homework.  The Stress Management and Me helps children learn about the brain and how bodies react under stressful situations.  In other words, we’ll be trying to figure out when the stomach has “butterflies” because of stress, and when our stomach is upset because we are sick. The Be Cool videos provide strategies for handling teasing and bullies.  The curriculum also includes body safety, stranger danger, and drug prevention work.  We’ll continue to work on the ‘Rules for Fighting Fair’ we started way back in Kindergarten.  Hopefully, we’ve learned to attack problems, not people.

 

 

Sincerely,

Mrs. Fleming

The third grade Life Skills curriculum consists of thirty lessons:

 

1.      Introduction - Dealing With Feelings! Video and  letter home

2.      Knots on a Counting Rope (What feelings were experienced?)

3.      A Bargain for Frances   (Friends can cause us to have feelings of jealousy.)

4.      Big Al  (What’s a stereotype?)

5.       It Could Be Worse  (Understanding positive and negative feelings - stress)

6.      Stress and Me, Flash Crashed story, and Stress Manager (pages 11-16)

7.      Getting To Know Your Brain, (page 20) ways to relax, Pages 27-30)

8.       Dot –To –Dot activity, (page25) Study Skills: homework tips, timer. study place, test taking , managing time and homework

9.      Complete Study Skills

10. Creative Conflict Solving for Kids, Feelings worksheet S6,  ‘I Feel Just Right’

11. Be Cool Video 1  Teasing

12. Be Cool Video 2  Teasing

13. Be Cool Video 3 Teasing

14. Temper-A-Ture page S9 and Rules for Fighting Fair

15. We Care About Each Other’s Feelings (page T13)  Just Kidding Video

16. Listening skills – Communication Game

17. Strategies for Fighting Fair and the 4 step plan (S17a)

18. The Bully -  Be Cool video 1

19. Bullying - Be Cool Video 2

20. Bullying - Be Cool Video 3

21. Bullying - Be Cool Video 4

22. Healthy Choices -  (Body safety, Stranger Danger, and Drug Prevention)

23. Lesson 2

24. Lesson 3

25. Lesson 4

26. Careers

27. Careers

28. The Peacemakers Vocabulary (page S23c and d)

29. Caring Crossword Puzzle (page 60)

30. Horton Hears A Who