Dear Parents,

 

     Fifth Grade is finally here!  I know your home will be busy with all the activity that happens in grade 5 (read hormones). It is such and exciting time in your child’s life.

  We will begin the year with a study skills unit designed to help your student manage time and plan a personal study schedule.  Don't be surprised if lots of clock-watching activity is going on in your home. Your child is beginning to figure out just where all the time is going and how the day is usually spent.

  From there we will go into a Wellness Unit which includes body safety, drug/tobacco/alcohol prevention, stranger danger, and the importance of good nutrition and exercise for healthy living.  I use a series of videos that present a story without an ending. Then the kids have to decide what happens next.  These videos always stir up lots of discussion and great questions.

  Then we’ll get back into the curriculum they’ve been working on since Kindergarten.  In grade 5 it is called Begin Creating Peace, Building Community.  This really prepares them for Middle School.  We’ll talk about things like rumors, and using assertiveness while maintaining dignity and respect for others and yourself.  This moves us into a unit on Mediation.  The year ends with a unit on careers.   

 

Sincerely,

 Nancy C. Fleming

Fifth Grade Life Skills Curriculum

 

1.      Introduction, Do Rate You Study Habits

2.      Begin work on Time Charts

3.      Complete time charts and prepare study schedules

4.      Study Skills video 1- Seven Steps to Good Study Habits

5.      Study Skills video 2 – SQ3R

6.      Study Skills Bingo

7.      Wellness Unit – includes Body Safety work, Stranger Danger, Drug/Alcohol Prevention, nutrition and exercise importance

8.      Like You, Dad video - and healthy eating and exercise habits

9.      Good Practice Today –video- more on refusal skills and tobacco use

10.  A Friend Indeed – video – responsibilities of friendship

11.  Good Choices Bad Choices Video

12.  Do the Right Thing

13.    Discuss  problems of Bullying – Recognizing Physical, Verbal, and Nonverbal  

14.  Broken Toy video

15.  Stranger Danger

16.  Begin Creating Peace, Building Community – problems with Rumors

17.  Keys to understanding Empathy

18.  Get Up, Stand Up, Speak up – Respect and Dignity

19 –24 Lessons on Anger Management Planning using the Be Cool Videos

25. Conflict styles    Video – Decision and Conflicts styles

26. Decision making and goal setting

27. How Can I Help?  What makes a Leader?  Supporters are Important Too.

28. Mediation Unit - Understanding the Process of Mediation and the vocabulary of mediation

29. Career work

30. Career work