Making and Keeping Friends

We will be targeting our grades 2, 3, and 4 students with this project. We are consistently working hard on building healthy relationships, and social skills through a variety of activities during the year. This particular project with DM Family Services would be an exceptional way to be provided with specific professional help otherwise unavailable to us. A description of the proposed project is below.

"Making and Keeping Friends is a six week intensive program designed to support children and enhance their social thinking skills. There is a specific focus on communication skills, including: initiating, sustaining, and maintaining contact, verbal and non-verbal communication, reciprocal conversations and the art of game playing. Through use of arts and crafts, therapeutic games, and video vignettes, the children are fully engaged in each session."
-source DM Family Services

Update (May 10, 2013)

Grade 2 and 3 classes participated in 3 workshops each lasting almost an hour. The children learned social skills, about friendship, and how their actions affected others positively and/or negatively through role-play, reflection sheets, and activities. We felt very satisfied with the results.