Taking Good Care of Ourselves

In the end, feeling happy, contented, proud and confident has to do with taking good care of ourselves. Primary Second Step lessons all year have done just that. Students have been taught the Skills for Learning – listening, focusing and self-talk. They then focused on Empathy – identifying feelings in self and others and having compassion.  Next was a unit on How to Calm Down – dealing with strong emotions by a stop signal, naming the feeling and taking a deep breath, counting or using positive self talk. The Preventing Bullying unit was next where children learned to recognise, report and refuse bullying as well as how to stand by the person being bullied. Finally we learned how to Solve Problems, all by ourselves!

There are 4 STEPs   S-Say the problem, T- Think of solutions  E- Explore consequences and P- Pick the best solution. The younger children learned how to Play Fair using either sharing, trading or taking turns.

Skills for Learning
Empathy
How to Calm Down
Preventing Bullying
Solve Problems

Here is to the children now prepared to take care of themselves in so many ways! Now how about yourselves? Please find a few quotes I find inspiring and hope it can also be  part of taking care of yourselves too. Enjoy! Have a great summer everyone! Be well!

Vivian Huizenga
Primary Counselor