Social Learning Groups by Age

Social rules and demands change with age!  CW’s Lessons are based on the needs of individual students and group members.  The following is a sample of concepts that are explored in our program and based on the CA academic standards of education that relate to social skills.  This is not meant to represent a comprehensive list and all concepts from the beginning ages will continue to be worked on at each stage when needed.

Pre K

• Listening with your whole body
• Taking turns
• Sharing
• Following the “plan”
• Pretend Play
• Imagination
• Staying with the group
• Identifying emotions
• Imitation
• Asking and answer basic questions
• Asking questions and wondering about others

Early Elementary School K-2nd Grade

• Listening attentively
• Retelling stories
• Labeling emotions
• Responding and asking questions
• Staying on topic
• Defining friendship
• Compromising/negotiating
• Introduce and explain how to be more flexible
• Expected/unexpected behaviors
• Learning to watch others (esp. their eyes) to determine what they are thinking about
• Identifying non-verbal body language and facial expressions
• Learning to be a good detective and make “smart guesses” about what you observe
• Learning to “read someone’s plan” by observing their non-verbal body language
• Understand that others have thoughts

Late Elementary School 3rd Grade+

• Ask thoughtful questions that seek information
• Use appropriate facial expressions, gestures and tone
• Introduced expected and unexpected behaviors in various social situations
• Social expectations and behaviors across environments and context
• Use of visual and graphic organizers
• Identify the main idea and predict the outcome in literature
• Write informative reports
• Understanding the hidden rule in various social settings
• Use superflexible thinking
• Group dynamics-working together/problem solving
• Understanding that others have thoughts that may be different then their own
• Understanding perspective (thoughts) of the characters in the literature they are reading
• Dealing with “loss”, whether it’s losing a game, losing an object or losing a friend
• Bullying
• Self-regulation
• Self-esteem/anxiety

Middle School

• Organization, planning, memory and prioritizing
• Making positive impressions
• Identify idioms/analogies, metaphors
• Understand insight of a character in literature and relate own responses in writing
• Note taking, outlining, summarizing and other graphic organizers
• Self-advocacy
• Circle of closeness –more in depth look at friendship
• Understanding that others have thoughts about them, and that we need to think about what others are thinking about us.

High School-Adult

• Social networking
• Making and outlining goals
• Planning for future
• Evaluating hidden agendas
• Formulate judgments about ideas discussed