Showing Gratitude We are steadily making our way through November, and getting closer to Thanksgiving each day! It’s time again to start preparing and gathering our gratitudes in time for the special Holiday. Last week, we talked all about what Gratitude means, and why it is important to show it (missed last week’s blog? […]
Gratitude The crisp Autumn air, the changing colors of the falling leaves, and the smell of pumpkin spice all mean one thing: November has arrived. With Thanksgiving approaching, There’s no better time to show our thanks and Gratitude to those close to us than this penultimate month of the year! This month, we will […]
Kindness for the Environment Golden Rule Challenge: Week 4 We are extremely excited to be rounding off our month-long Golden Rule Challenge with our fourth and final week. This week, our challenge sheet asks students to perform one kind act each day for the environment. We want to promote environmental kindness in order to […]
Kindness for Yourself Golden Rule Challenge: Week 3 So far, our awesome Golden Rule Challenge for the month of October has been going strong, and we’re super excited for the arrival of Week 3! This week’s challenge asks our students to do one kind act each day for family members, but that also includes […]
Kindness In School Golden Rule Challenge: Week 2 We’re excited to be hosting our Golden Rule Challenge in the Month of October! This week, our challenge asks students to perform one random act of kindness for classmates and teachers in school each day. This can include picking up something a classmate dropped, helping the […]
Kindness Golden Rule Challenge October is National Bullying Prevention Month, which means we will be bringing back our Golden Rule Challenge at MPAMA! Each week of October, we will be sending out a challenge sheet that includes the instructions that tell you how to complete that week’s task. All the challenges revolve around having […]
Confidence: Self-Determination and Certainty To round off our month of confidence talk, we are focusing on using confidence to build self-determination and certainty in our students. So far, we’ve discussed the Three Rules, participation, and speaking up, and how confidence plays into these different skills. Not unlike the rest, self-determination and certainty are two […]
Confidence: Speaking Up One thing we all want for our children is the ability for them to speak up for themselves. Whether it’s standing up to a bully, telling adults when something is wrong, or asking the teacher when they need help, speaking up is an important, yet often an overlooked task. Underdeveloped confidence […]
Confidence: Participation Aside from helping us make new friends, confidence is important for the new school year to make sure classes are fun and educational. Every week, teachers spend countless hours preparing plans for each day’s class; they craft lessons that need to teach the necessary material, yet maintain children’s attention. However, a large […]
Practice the Three Rules of Confidence With the start of the new school year, the opportunity for our children to make new friends and set up a successful school year comes once again. We all want to see our kids have high self-esteem so they can make friends with their new classmates. To do […]