Articles for parent/guardians listed first and Student/Family Websites listed below:
Los artículos para padres / tutores enumerados en primer lugar y los sitios web para estudiantes / familias enumerados a continuación:
Spring Break: Activities for families: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/spring-break-activities-for-families?utm_source=org_springbreakemail1_20240319_B&utm_medium=email
Podcasts for Kids: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/best-spring-break-podcasts-for-kids?utm_source=org_springbreakemail1_20240319_B&utm_medium=email
Books for Anxiety:
1. Freeing Your Child From Anxiety: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life-From Toddlers to Teens. Author: Tamar E. Chansky, Ph.D
2. Anxious Kids Anxious Parents: 7 Ways To Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children.
Author: Reid Wilson, PhD & Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Normal Childhood Fears: https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/anxiety.html#
PBS for Parents: This website is filled with information on child development and early learning: https://www.pbs.org/parents
Podcasts for Kids: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/best-spring-break-podcasts-for-kids?utm_source=org_springbreakemail1_20240319_B&utm_medium=email
Books for Anxiety:
1. Freeing Your Child From Anxiety: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life-From Toddlers to Teens. Author: Tamar E. Chansky, Ph.D
2. Anxious Kids Anxious Parents: 7 Ways To Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children.
Author: Reid Wilson, PhD & Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Normal Childhood Fears: https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/anxiety.html#
PBS for Parents: This website is filled with information on child development and early learning: https://www.pbs.org/parents
The Panic Button Book for Kids is an interactive, step-by-step guide for children aged 7-11 and their caregivers. Written in everyday language and beautifully illustrated, this book is designed for grown-ups to read with their child, and is full of helpful ideas to kick anxiety to the curb and create a common language between the generations.
Through a series of colorful 'decision trees' which draw on evidence-based techniques, you can help your child work through their feelings to bring a sense of calm and relief from worry. |
SECOND STEP: SEL Program: Parent ACCESS
We want your child to be as successful as possible at school. Success in school is not just about reading and math. It is also about knowing how to learn and how to get along with others. We will be using the Second Step program in your child’s classroom to teach these critical skills. The Second Step program teaches skills in the following four areas:
1. Skills for Learning: Students gain skills to help themselves learn, including how to focus their attention, listen carefully, and be assertive when asking for help with schoolwork.
2. Empathy: Students learn to identify and understand their own and others’ feelings. Students also learn how to take another’s perspective and how to show compassion.
3. Emotion Management: Students learn specific skills for calming down when experiencing strong feelings, such as anxiety or anger.
4. Problem Solving: Students learn a process for solving problems with others in a positive way.
Second Step has home links so that you can support social skill learning at home. Home Links are simple, fun activities for you and your child to complete together. They are a great way for you to understand what your child is learning and for your child to show you what he or she knows. Below are the links for each grade level.
Kindergarten: www.secondstep.org with the activation key SSPK FAMI LY70
First Grade: www.secondstep.org with the activation key SSP1 FAMI LY71
Second Grade: www.secondstep.org with the activation key SSP2 FAMI LY72
Third Grade: www.secondstep.org with the activation key SSP3 FAMI LY73
Fourth Grade: www.secondstep.org with the activation key SSP4 FAMI LY74
Fun Websites for Kids:
- Sweet 4 minute affirmations for kids with mindful breathing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/charm-words-daily-affirmations-for-kids/id1599001766?i=1000598037873
- *Wide Open School powered by Common Sense Media: https://wideopenschool.org/
- PBS for Parents: https://www.pbs.org/parents
- The Imagine neighborhood: Podcast for kids to help with social emotional regulation: https://www.imagineneighborhood.org/
- Sesame Street: Caring For Each Other: https://www.sesamestreet.org/caring
- Meditation for kids: https://www.headspace.com/meditation/kids
- Mind Yeti: Mindfulness for kids: https://www.mindyeti.com/v2/s/pricing?utm_source=secondstep.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=covid19support
- Headspace: Mindful Meditation: https://www.headspace.com/
- Zoo Cams from around the world: https://www.earthcam.com/events/animalcams/