Developing Optimism
The Developing Optimism series is a wonderful, creative resource to help you provide a framework for children to develop positive attitudes toward life. This excellent, upbeat resource is designed especially to help your K-1 (see below) students face challenges, apprehension, and self-doubt through positive experiences in art, music, science, math, social studies, and language arts. Through shared insights, discussion, and lesson plans, students will go through a progression of skills developed to increase optimism and potential success. Students learn skills to help them create their own positive internal dialogue, eliminate negative statements, make positive choices, and much more!
Each unit includes effective insights; detailed, motivating objectives; discussion questions; lesson plans; and extension activities that integrate cross-curriculum ideas that encourage students to develop self-confidence and find ways to approach life with optimism.
Developing Optimism will change your classroom dynamics by highlighting the positive rather than the negative. Put a smile on children's faces as they meet challenges in school and at home with a strong, happy, positive attitude!
The Developing Optimism series also includes:
FE11026 Developing Optimism Grades K-1
FE11027 Developing Optimism Grades 2-3
FE11028 Developing Optimism Grades 4-6
- Bio
- Resume
- Works List
- Current projects
- Silent Shriek
- Developing Optimism
Sample short stories by Barb Rumson
- Gomer, the Hiccupping Bear
- Noah's Wife? What Was Her Job?
- Blue Mounds' Master of Music
- The Rose and the Gentle Knights
External links
Puddles for All Seasons
Illustrations by My Way in Education
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Music Lessons from Long Ago
Classical Music Daily