Self-awareness & Self-management Skills-PreK-2nd Grade

Develop self-awareness and self-management skills to achieve school and life success.

Identify and manage one’s emotions and behavior. Recognize the effect your Catholic faith has on your emotions and behaviors.

Recognize personal qualities and external supports. Recognize your individual gifts and the support you get from your Catholic community.

Demonstrate skills related to achieving personal and academic goals. Recognize how your Catholic faith helps you set and achieve goals.

Identify emotions (e.g., happy, surprised, sad, angry, proud, afraid) expressed in “feeling faces” or photographs.

Share feelings (e.g., through speaking, writing, drawing) in a range of contexts (e.g. talking with parents, teachers, praying/reflecting).

Identify and practice ways to calm themselves, including prayer.

Describe how various situations make them feel.

Describe their physical responses to strong emotions.

Demonstrate a range of emotions through facial expressions and body language.

Use appropriate communication skills to express needs, wants, and feelings. 

Discuss how God makes them special and unique.

Describe themselves by using several basic characteristics.

Describe an achievement that makes them feel proud.

Identify a community resource they enjoy using (e.g., play field, park, swimming pool, etc.).

Identify various helpers in the school community.

Analyze how they might have done better in a situation. 

Draw a picture of one of their favorite things to do with others (e.g., play a sport, ride your bike, go to the beach).

Share their God-given talents.

Tell how prayer and sacraments help them.

Exhibit eagerness and curiosity as a learner.

Understand that what they want to accomplish is a goal.

Give an example of an academic goal they could set for themselves. 

Give an example of a personal goal they could set for themselves.

Make a plan for how to improve their performance in a school subject or with a personal goal.

Identify the progress that they have made toward achieving their goal and recognize the personal accomplishment.

Talk about what God’s goal is for them.

Tell how prayer and the sacraments help them achieve their goals.