Life Lab

Life Lab


“Teaching children wellbeing and life skills in schools is the best way to ensure that the future generations flourish!”
  • Viivi Pentikäinen

Life skills are the skill set that enable people to live happy and meaningful lives and reach their potential. People who have sufficient life skills flourish. In this context, a meaningful life is achieved through mental wellbeing, self-awareness, skills for appreciating humanity in others as well as working towards wellbeing in one's community.
Instilling life and wellbeing skills in school supports mental wellbeing in children and youth, now and in the future.
Life skill education is based on research and methodology for positive pedagogy and positive education developed alongside positive psychology. It is important to teach research based life skills such as happiness skills, strength skills, resolution skills, emotional skills, skills for being present, interaction skills, relationship skills, self-management skills as well as empathy skills at school. This way children grow up to be whole, mentally strong and resilient young adults.
This year the students at FDA will have a new opportunity to learn and practice important life skills. The Life Lab will start the year off with social skills and important social behaviors that will help them in school and life outside of school. The class will have various goals and skills accomplished throughout the year. The Life Lab intend’s to touch base on skills such as empathy, emotions, money management, age appropriate chores, job skills, personal hygiene, manners, friendship skills etc.

The Life Lab will be a great hands on learning experience. It will be fun and challenging, the class will be geared to grades 1 through 6.

Ms. Jessica and Ms. Joni will be our ‘Life Lab’ Coaches. They are really excited to meet with the students and begin the journey of learning. The school blog will be updated every week with the skills that will be taught to the students.



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