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Fly Five supports life skill development for K-2 learners through the use of age-appropriate activities and resources. These resources include scenario cards and read-alouds, both of which support a lesson’s focus and help students practice their skills in a text-to-self or text-to-world format, offering students opportunities to practice critical social skills, such as sharing and teamwork.
The Fly Five curriculum for grades 3 through 5 supports life skill development through activities tailored for increased independence. The curriculum offers more opportunities for personal reflection and introduces PowerPoints to reinforce their learning. Through skill-focused stories and hands-on group activities, students explore life skills with more autonomy, engage with diverse stories, and continue developing self-awareness (Eva n.d.).
For grades 6-8, the Fly Five curriculum activates the power of reflection, guiding students to explore life skills by sharing ideas with their peers and listening openly to new perspectives. Through independent and group exploration, self-reflection, and more frequent journaling, students are able to demonstrate the social and behavioral skills needed for both in and out of the classroom.
Fly Five is developed on the core belief that for students to be academically, socially, and behaviorally successful in, out of, and beyond school, they need to learn a set of life skills that reflect cooperation, assertiveness, responsibility, empathy, and self-control (C.A.R.E.S.).
The Fly Five lessons are intentionally designed to be easily implemented so that teachers can focus on noticing students’ academic, social, and emotional growth and progress and creating conditions for that progress to continue. All grade levels have five units with four themes based upon the C.A.R.E.S. standards. Also, each unit has a School-to-Home Connection Toolkit, which comes with a newsletter and flexible skill-based activities that can be implemented in the home. This is available in English, Spanish, and Arabic. Each grade level has a deck of age- and grade-appropriate mindfulness cards aligned to the lesson objectives. These cards can be used seamlessly throughout the day.
