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West Metro Learning Connections News Bulletin June 15, 2005 News Items ___________________________________________ Exciting New Saturday Offering!!!! "Friendships, Feelings, Behaviors, and Fun" Video-Based
Social Skills Therapy and Therapeutic Recreation June
25-August 20 (No Group July 9) Designed
for Ages 5-10 1:00-4:00 Video-Based
Social Skills Therapy For
descriptions of each class please click on the class name,
visit our website at www.wmlearningconnections.com
or click here.
“Angry?
Ten Ways to Cool Off”
uses dramatic scenarios to demonstrate ten highly effective ways kids
can cool off whenever angry situations leaves them ready to explode,
boil over, or burn up. Children learn to describe the physical and
emotional changes anger can cause and to handle angry feelings without
resorting to physical confrontations or hurting themselves. “A
Kid’s Guide to Feelings”
defines just what feelings
are in real-life situations that children can relate to and
understand. The situations in the video demonstrate that we all feel
many emotions through a day and the workshop continues with an
analysis of how we read the feelings of others and empathize with
those around us. Finally, the program takes a close look at how our
feelings and the way we express them change the way other people deal
with us. “Learning
to Care” encourages children to develop empathy by imagining themselves in someone
else’s place and helps them understand that showing they care will
make the other person feel much better and lead to a stronger
relationship with that person. Children will also develop their own
Five-Point Scales to identify their personal anger triggers and
warning signs and to plan strategies for dealing with anger and other
difficult emotions. Therapeutic Recreation Therapeutic Recreation promotes increased
physical fitness, coordination, balance, and skills for playing
sports, doing activities, playing with others, swimming, and skating.
Friendship skills and the skills learned in the video-based therapy
are applied throughout the recreation activities. __________________________________________ A Class Update
Meet and Manage Emotions and the 5-Point Scale (For descriptions of each class referenced please click on
the class name, visit our website at www.wmlearningconnections.com Ages: 6-12 Description:
“Meet
and Manage Emotions”
helps participants to identify and label positive and negative
emotions, redirect negative thoughts to positive thoughts, interpret
nonverbal, tone of voice, and situational feeling clues, identify
degrees of emotions, express feelings with words and nonverbal clues,
recognize and manage intense emotions.
In addition, this group will review and address goals from “Fabulous
Feelings” and “Feelings
for Everyone.” “Fabulous Feelings” helps participants to value, identify, and
communicate their feelings, to identify situations that cause certain
feelings, to manage difficult feelings, and to recognize and celebrate
their strengths, progress, and positive actions they have taken.
“Feelings for Everyone” focuses on other people’s feelings, with
an eventual goal of empathy, feeling what others feels, and of
learning to recognize and predict others’ possible feelings and to
make behavior decisions based on what might be appropriate responses
to the identified feelings.
Along with increasing emotional skills and understanding, participants
will also learn to use the 5-Point Scale to help them learn about,
communicate, and manage difficult feelings. Individuals will create
their own scales for feeling angry, upset, and stressed.
How to Do Recess is an instructional and therapeutic recreation
component of the guided play and interaction. The unwritten rules of
recess are the unspoken rules, social conventions, and expectations
that most children and adults know and follow while at recess and
during other recreation and leisure times. Since these rules and
expectations aren’t written down, some people don’t know them, and
they can also sometimes be confusing. Still, everyone is expected to
know and follow them. Understanding and following these rules can help
individuals be successful at recess. ___________________________________________ Openings Still Available For Regular Summer
Scheduled Events Click
here for Summer 2005 Schedule - Click
here for Summer 2005 Day Camp Click
here for Summer 2005 Offerings - Click
here for Summer 2005 Registration West Metro Learning
Connections is still accepting registrations for all summer programs,
including social skills therapy, day camps, therapeutic recreation,
Friday Excellent Adventures, and sleepovers. ___________________________________________ Brain-Based Parenting:
How Science Can Help Us Parent Our Very Challenging Children
Free Workshop for parents of elementary school age children at MN
Children’s Museum on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. There is a free lunch and free activities for children.
All children must be accompanied by an adult or responsible teen.
Activities are appropriate for ages 6 months to ten years.
Contact Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health at
651-644-7333 by June 23 or info@macmh.org ___________________________________________ Special Summer Offerings Registrations
still being accepted Video-Enhanced
Social Skills Therapy Through September These special offerings combine
professional videos and a variety of activities to target and address
specific skills and goals. The four-hour program is done two ways. You
may either sign up for as many two-hour long sessions as you would
like. The Video-Enhanced Social Skills Therapy uses not only social
skills videos, but also accompanying guided discussions, supporting
materials and activities and guided play and reinforcement. In addition, the program includes a
take-home to provide opportunities for continued learning and
practicing in school and home settings. Reviewing and practicing the
skills found in the notebook will help the new skills and knowledge
generalize and become engrained in individuals’ repertories of
strengths. These classes are by appointment only.
The price for each two hour session is $70.00. To set up an
appointment, please call the West Metro Learning Connections’ office
at 952-474-0227. For descriptions of each class please click on the
class name, visit our website at www.wmlearningconnections.com
or click here.
Children Grades Kindergarten-3+ 1.
Angry? Ten Ways to Cool Off 5.
I’m Telling, A Tattler’s Tale Children Grades 3-6+ 10.
When It's Hard to Be a Friend 11.
Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Shoes 12.
What if You Lose when You Play to Win Young People, Grades 5-9+ 16.
Learning Relationship Skills 17.
Working It Out: Conflict Resolution 20.
Being a Friend: What Does It Mean? 23.
Cool to Be Me: Self-Esteem 24.
I Like Being Me: Self-Esteem 25.
What Would I Be Good At? Exploring Careers 26.
Go, Go, Goals! How to Get There 26a.
Being a Friend: What Does It Mean? Teenagers and Young Adults, Grades 7-12+ 28.
Building Good Relationships 29.
Real People Relationships: When They Help…. When They Hurt 30.
Know Yourself: The Secret to Self-Esteem 31.
What Teens Want to Know About Sex 32.
Teenage Sex: Resisting the Pressure Friday Night Excellent Adventures—4:30-8:30 $100 plus **noted amounts June 17- Swimming and Dinner This will be an adventure to not be
missed!! We will be swimming in the Schipper pool and having hot dogs
and hamburgers. If the weather does not cooperate with this activity,
we will go swimming at Chaska Community Center and have food back at
WMLC. **Please send $5.00 for food supplies **If we go to Chaska, you will be notified
about additional money needed 4:30-4:45- Meet at WMLC, sensory starts 4:45-5:00- Travel to the Schipper House 5:00-6:30- Swimming 6:30-7:30- Dinner 7:30-8:00- Clean up, get ready to leave 8:00-8:15- Travel back to WMLC 8:15-8:30- Games, wait for parent pick up Day Camps-10:00-3:00 $125 plus **noted amounts Thursday June 16-Como Park Zoo and
Conservatory This will be a day of fun looking at
animals and flowers. We will first visit the animals at the Como
Park Zoo, then go to the Marjoier McNeely Conservatory and view the
gardens. **Please send $2.00 for admission and a
sack lunch. 10:00-10:15- Meet at WMLC, sensory starts 10:15-11:00- Travel to Como Park Zoo 11:00-12:30- Explore the zoo 12:30-1:15- Eat lunch 1:15-2:00- Marjorie McNeely Conservatory 2:00-2:15- Return to cars 2:15-3:00-Travel back to WMLC Sleepover-5:30 p.m. to 10:00 a.m. $150 plus **money for dinner Saturday June 18-Sunday June 19 Come join us for our monthly sleepover at
West Metro. We will play games such as Yu-Gi-Oh, chess, and any
other favorites, go out for dinner, watch a movie and sleep. For
dinner, we will go to Applebee’s. Please send $8.00 for
dinner. Breakfast will be provided in the morning. West
Metro sleepovers are so much fun, you won’t want to miss out. ___________________________________________ Your Comments
are appreciated. WMLC
invites comments about its newsletter. Please send your comments via
email, letter or phone to: 355 Second Street Excelsior MN 55331 Phone: 952-474-0227 Fax: 952-474-0249 Email: connectskills@wmlearningconnections.com URL: www.wmlearningconnections.com |