Lessons explore particular ethical values, as well as multisensory, experiential activities, games, field trips, and service projects. Building good relationships is a goal of every class throughout the year, and is highlighted during the first theme unit. To kick off the new school year, this unit includes games, lessons, and activities to enable the children to get to know one another, cultivate a caring creative identity, develop awareness of feelings, learn skills for good communication and resolving conflicts, and build an ethical culture within the classroom. We explore the ethical values of trust, respect and forgiveness. This unit explores the values of love and kindness.
Children learn to develop ethical relationships with family, friends, and community.
Children learn through the Stone Soup story that the more you give, the more you receive, and they help prepare the Stone Soup. They experience the meaning of giving by participating in the Helping Hands Craft Sale, the Giving Tree project, and the Winter Festival Celebration. As we move into the New Year, the children explore the ethical values of honesty, fairness, and the importance of doing their part to create a better world. Included in this theme are Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Valentines Day. Children develop their sense of social responsibility and an appreciation of similarities and differences among people.