Seed Program
Supporting Every Child's Emotional Growth and Development
The Seed Program increases social-emotional learning and vocabulary skills in children and youth through teaching literature, creative writing, and providing visual arts projects. This program can be taken to schools and other community organizations that serve children in grades second through sixth.
To achieve our program goals, we meet weekly, for at least seven weeks. Each week the stories, poetry, art projects, and creative writing exercises are related to the week’s social-emotional theme.
There are seven themes:
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Reach for Your Dreams
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Express and Regulate Emotions
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Speak, Write, and Draw with Your Voice
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Play!
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Expand Social Skills
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Cultivate Diversity
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Treat Others with Respect
In addition, every child keeps the art projects they begin in the class and gets a free book at the end of the program to take home. We use a wide variety of art projects to engage children in learning and art techniques, mandalas, sculpting with model magic clay, and painting. We also provide creative writing prompts for children to take home to help them improve their writing skills.