Week 3 Faith Families and 2nd step

 

This week in chapel we started Faith Families!  Each Faith Family is made up of students from different grades in 1st-8th grade who worship together throughout the year and join in special activities four times a year as part of our baptismal remembrance. Our first activity focused on our theme verse, “Be strong and courageous…for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1:9). We are excited to

  see how God will grow our Faith Families this year!

 

A peek at paragraph shrinking - can you summarize a paragraph's main point in 10 words or less?

Mapping in S.S.

Thursday we began the Second Step program. The program focuses on 

skills that will help your child succeed in school and in life. These skills include:

• Empathy 

• Communication

• Perspective taking

• Respectful disagreement

• Assertiveness

• Emotional management

• Problem solving 

Students had a chance to consider their hopes and plans for middle school as well as consider the challenges ahead for this year.  We will use a Religion period about twice a month to build on these social-emotional concepts through the eyes of faith.