• Develops literacy, vocabulary!
• Helps your child get organized to get things done!
• Helps the child understand how to work with others!
• Helps a child stay healthy!
• Develops critical thinking skills!
• Lesson plans are complete and ready to use!  Start now!

This is the first course in semester two, for Step 1 (ages 5-6) Study & Life Skills. Also for preliterate students, and for students who have developed very limited literacy.

This course covers what a student is, and how students can work with others and themselves to achieve good results. The course looks at the reason a person would want to be a student, at agreements made between the teacher and student, and methods of getting work done.

The second half of this course deals with ways that the student can help themselves stay healthy. Covered are diet, sleep and rest, exercise, what to do in extreme weather, and other basics which will help your student stay well and able to study.

A unique course that will help provide your student with information and ideas he or she will use for the rest of his or her life, about how to be and stay productive and well.

Concepts covered in this course include:

• How to be a student.
• Why one should care about study.
• What rules are, why they exist, when they should be followed.
• Agreements with others,
• How to work with others.
• How to work with teachers.
• How to study.
• Selecting and studying a subject that you the student are interested in.
• Grades and grade levels - liabilities and how to work with them.
• Ways of evaluating progress as a student for one's self.
• Staying healthy, what health is.
• The parts of the body.
• Right and left – which is which.
• How to exercise.
• Rest and sleep to stay healthy.
• Food and water and health.
• What to do to stay well in hot and humid weather.
• What to do to stay well in cold weather.