The Life Skills Program enhances positive life skills essential for personal and social growth and awareness. The climate established in the classroom is an integral part of the program.
Communication is encouraged through small-group discussions and active listening.
Efforts are made to ensure an environment which is open, trusting, and supportive. Areas of focus include self-awareness, relationships, peer pressure, strategies for solving interpersonal problems, decision making, drug abuse prevention and, in the fifth grade, family life planning, which includes the social, emotional, and physical changes during puberty. Through a variety of activities, children learn to share and trust and develop a strong sense of self as well as acceptance of others.