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  • Today's Lessons
    • ELA
    • Math
    • Science and Social Studies
  • Reading
    • Research
    • SELF-REGULATION LESSONS
    • ELECTRONICS EXPECTATIONS
  • Learning At Home Resources
    • art
  • LANGUAGE SUPPORTS
    • summarizing
    • Topic Sentence
    • Elaborate
    • Claim
    • Evidence Then Reasoning
    • Reasoning Then Evidence
    • Counter and Defend
    • Sequence
    • Cause & Effect: Compounding Linking Words
    • Comparison
  • Resources
    • Life Skills >
      • Breathing Tool
      • Listening Tool
      • Empathy Tool
      • Space Tool
      • Life Skills: Safe Place Tool
    • Active Participation
    • Bloomz
    • Class Slideshows
    • Home Work
    • Self Evaluation Ideas
    • Davids Semi-Secret Videos on Morality
    • Probability Meter
    • Rubric: Quality
    • Rubric: Mastery
    • Reflections
    • Read Alouds, Book Groups, and Documentary Film List
    • Class Photos and Videos
    • Civil Rights
    • artifacts
    • Contact
  • Life Skills
    • Self Circles
    • 4th Grade Life Skills Part 1
    • 4th Grade Life Skills Part 2
    • 4th Grade Life Skills Part 3
    • 4th Grade Life Skills Part 4
    • 4th Grade Life Skills Part 5
    • What does it take to learn something?
    • Ethics
    • A Note on Electronics
    • Focus on the Solution, Not the Problem
    • 3 Ways to Be
    • Making Peace With Mistakes
    • You Get Time
    • Your Parents Have Been There
  • Listen / Speak
    • Task 1
    • Task 2
    • Task 3
    • Task 4
    • Task 5
    • Task 6
    • Task 7
    • Task 8
    • Task 9
    • Task 10
    • Assessment + Additional Videos for Practice >
      • Art
      • Science
      • Anthropology
  • Art
    • Keith Haring
    • Cloth Mache Masks
    • Art
    • Repetitive Design
    • Dimension >
      • single point perspective
    • Cityscapes
    • Organisms
    • Logo
    • Self Portraits
    • Trees
    • Graphics + Text
    • Symbols / Totems
    • Cranes
    • Sumi-E
    • Chuck Close
    • Ink Monsters
    • String Art
    • Object Integration
    • Representational Masters
    • James Rizzi
    • Lettering
    • 漢字
    • Mandalas
  • Science Resources
    • STEM Presentations
    • Curiosity and Science
    • Introduction
    • Earth's Systems
    • Energy
    • From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
    • Earth’s Place in the Universe
    • Earth and Human Activity
    • Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
  • Math Remodel
    • Depth of Knowledge - Math
  • Logic
  • New Page

life skills

The transition from kid to adult is one of life's biggest grey areas. Our kids are getting ready to enter it and they need the skills to take charge of their identities as they face new choices. 

We focus on making peace with mistakes, noticing when you have choices and making them deliberate, and being reflective about how we spend our time. 

For each of these skills, we emphasize using them in the small, day to day actions that end up being what your life is made of.

Use the menu at the top of the screen to see the topics that are taught during the year.  As we teach each lesson in class, it is added to the website so students can access it anywhere.

Sites I Use to Plan
https://responsible-sports.libertymutual.com

http://www.tolerance.org

http://ei.yale.edu/ruler/ruler-overview/