Helping children understand how to make positive, appropriate choices is a very difficult skill. But a child can be taught to make good choices and those who get regular practice in it, will understand their own needs and gain a sense of controlover their life. Choice-making also helps teach internal discipline, organization, and prioritizing.
Our thoroughly researched pack of activities and resources will help you plan and teach children to make appropriate choices.The well laid out information will help you to work on the skill consciously and the suggested activities can be used at any time of the day. Our adorable mascot, Skipper, the Penguin will make learning fun and interesting.
Appropriate Choices
It includes the following:
- 3 book suggestions
- Questions to ask children when discussing the skill
- 5 activity suggestions along with resources to build the skill of making appropriate choice
- A poster that encourages and reminds children about making a good choice
- Sorting Cards for appropriate and inappropriate choices
- Situation cards that children can enact and learn how to make appropriate choices
- A student handbook that includes an assessment sheet and 4 practice sheets (2 differentiated levels) that can be done at school and home
- A letter for parents, explaining the skill and suggestions on how they can work on the mentioned skill at home
This unit is part of the SEL program, Social Slate that I have conceptualized and created for young learners. The program lays a strong foundation to build social and emotional skills in children. It aims at helping children to understand and express emotions, resolve social conflicts and develop self-awareness. I have referred to the research work by CASEL while creating this program. The program consists of 12 units that help teachers and parents to lay the right foundation in formative years of children so that they can enjoy a successful & rewarding personal / professional life as adults.
