Preschool and Dinosaur School
Garfield’s Pre-K classes have been taking part in Incredible Years, Dina Dinosaur School. This program is designed to teach young children friendship skills, emotional language, problem solving, and anger management. There are many ways this information is presented to the children, videos, puppets, special activities, games and books.
Carol Brehmer, from Southwest Iowa Families, has been coming to both classrooms two times per week to present fun skits with puppets, Dina and Wally. Children love these puppets and want to have them come out every time Carol is here. We have learned songs, fun games, and have taken items home for student and parent to work on together.
This program helps to create nurturing children who know how to be friendly, talk to people, learn school rules, understand other people’s feelings, and how to do their best in school. All of these skills are foundational to the future success in school. The development of expectations, rules, responsibilities and self-esteem are crucial to each and every child.