180 Daily Guidance Lessons to Jump Start Your Day

Grades K-6. This proactive, preventive program reaches every student, every day, in five-minute presentations. Daily lessons include inspiring role models, skits, and tips to be used at home and in school. The program's 36 weekly topics emphasize behaviors that cultivate and support respect, friendship, individuality, and compassion. Reproducible parent letters, What Would You Do? skits, and classroom activities for ease of distribution to parents, students, and teachers. Monday-Recognition and Inspiration: Students nominated as Student of the Week for their performance of the previous week's goal are recognized. The weekly goal is announced, and its meaning is clarified for the students. Tuesday-Rationale: Why Should We Do This? Explains the reason to strive for the goal. Wednesday-Role Models: Tidbits are related about famous people and others who do or have done a great job of achieving the weekly goal. Thursday-At Home: Students are given an assignment concerning ways to achieve this goal at home and in school. Friday-Creative Drama: Students are selected to perform skits about ways to engage in positive behaviors. Each weekly topic contains reproducible parent letters and classroom activities that can be taught by the counselor or classroom teacher. Covers topic areas such as: Including Everyone, Walking in Someone Else's Shoes, Being Responsible, Being Honest, Forgiving Others, Having an Open Mind, and Not Giving Up