Teaching Social Skills in Kindergarten

The Kindergarten curriculum can help children learn _____________________ and attitudes about other people

Our goal is to help children become socially ______________________________

This involves Socialization - learning to       understand and adapt to ____________

Children with good social skills

tend to be ______________________

know positive ways to get what they ________________ or _______________

have more ______________________

have higher __________________  ____________________

feel more ______________________________

Social needs are basic on ________________________  ____________________

    ____ ________________________

In school children can learn the benefits of ________________  efforts

They can form ______________________________________

Concepts to teach in Kindergarten

Teach that we can make a ______________________

Taking care of the ___________________________________

We are part of a _______________________ _______________________

We need to teach _____________________  ________________________

This will help children learn to be better members of a ______________________

–Respect individual ______________________________________________

–Resolve conflicts _____________________________ - actually teach

    ____________________________

Teaching Social Skills

Help children to feel part of the ______________________  ______________________

We can teach children _________________  for getting along with others

Integrate into daily ______________________________

–through children’s ____________________

–in daily_____________________________

–teach in ______________________  _________________________

Teach children to be _______________________  _____________________________

Steps in Problem Solving

1. ____________________ the problem (What is the problem?)

2.______________________possible solutions (How Can we solve it?)

3. Choose one _________________________ (What shall we try?)

4. ______________________ the solution (Let’s try it!)

5.__________________________ (Did it work?)

6. If not choose another _______________________________

Help children to think about

“What might happen _____________________”

DISCIPLINE

 

Discipline is helping children develop _______________  __________________.

It is setting_____________________  and correcting _________________________

It is __________________________ children,

_______________________________ children,

Discipline is

Helping children ______________  _________________ about themselves, and

Teaching children to _________________________ for themselves

»Marilyn E. Gootman

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