Resources

Welcome to the 4K Resources page! This section offers families access to essential tools and information to support students through their primary school years. Explore our frequently asked questions, student placement information, and more—all thoughtfully organized to help you stay engaged in your child’s educational experience.

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Social Emotional Learning Family Outreach

Dear families,

Welcome to The Incredible Flexible You, a Social Thinking® Curriculum for the Preschool and Early Elementary Years! Your child is beginning an exciting adventure in learning more about the social world. This letter is designed to introduce you to the curriculum and provide information about supporting your child’s learning at home. The aim of The Incredible Flexible You lessons is to help young verbal learners develop the skills they need to be flexible social thinkers and social problem solvers. Through the experiences of four characters in the storybooks and the accompanying lessons and music CD, children will learn about the social mind and social expectations. They will also learn about their own thinking (and that of others) to help them make better decisions when in the midst of social play and interaction.
The curriculum is based on Social Thinking, a treatment framework developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that teaches the “why” behind our social behavior. Winner created the Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts as a way to break down, explain, and put into concrete terms the abstract concepts that make up our social world. The Incredible Flexible You curriculum is divided into ten lessons that align with the ten storybooks in this teaching series. Each lesson is designed to teach a specific Social Thinking concept via one of the vocabulary terms. You will be receiving family letters that explain the concept as it is introduced in the curriculum and how to support your child’s learning at home.

As you embark on this social learning adventure together, please keep in mind the following points:
Social learning is slow and deep! We do not expect children to master concepts quickly.
Learn about the concepts your child is being exposed to and start to use the same vocabulary at home. Talk about the concepts when you are at home, at the store, in the car – anywhere and everywhere! The more you can make the vocabulary part of your everyday language, the better.
Complete the “At Home Activities” included in each family letter.
Be sure to enjoy the stories and songs that accompany the lessons. They’re designed for the entire family.
Don’t forget to notice and mention when your child is being a good social thinker (positive reinforcement!) and keeping other people feeling good about being around him/her! Please note that the curriculum is designed for children with listening and language skills strong enough to understand and discuss the concepts presented in the storybooks.

While all children will benefit from exploring these lessons, students with special learning needs may need much more time to do so. We hope you and your family will have fun while learning and practicing these all-important concepts.

• September Focus: Thinking Thoughts and Feeling Feelings
• October Focus: The Group Plan
• November Focus: Thinking With Your Eyes
• December Focus: Body in the Group
• January Focus: Whole Body Listening
• February Focus: Hidden Rules and Expected and Unexpected Behaviors
• March Focus: Smart Guess
• April Focus: Flexible and Stuck Thinking
• May Focus: Size of the Problem
• June Focus: Sharing an Imagination

Objective

To place students at 4K community sites that honor families’ wrap care placements and/or previous connections with sites (legacy families), maintains commitment to community sites in terms of maintaining consistent enrollment, and honor families’ top two (2)  preferences when possible while maintaining class sizes at 18 students or less.

Responsibilities and Authorities

• Community sites are responsible for accurately communicating legacy families to MHASD.
• MHASD is responsible for accurately recording families’ top four (4) preferences as indicated on the MH4K enrollment addendum.
•  MHASD and community sites are responsible to work cooperatively during the March placement meeting to meet the above stated objectives.  
• MHASD maintains final authority in all placement decisions.  

Procedure

1. In mid-February, community sites send legacy family information (with teacher assignment as appropriate) to MH4K Coordinator.
2. MH4K Coordinator will bring legacy family lists and documentation of preferences of unconnected (non-legacy) families to the March placement meeting.
3. MH4K Coordinator will work in conjunction with community sites to create site assignments that honor legacy family placements and maintains site and MH4K program sustainability/viability.
4. Following placement meeting, MH4K Secretary will roster students in Infinite Campus.
5. MH4K Coordinator will provide initial rosters to community sites for confirmation by the next Monday following the placement meeting
6. The MH4K Coordinator and MH4K Secretary will send site placement notification letters to MH4K families.  
7. The MH4K Coordinator will place late enrollees based on above objectives and send appropriate placement notifications to families.
8. The MH4K Coordinator will provide the community sites with updated rosters as needed during the first week in June and immediately following district registration in August. 

Please see our District "Visiting Our School" page for details about our school visit prerequisites you need to complete. The safety of our students and staff is among our primary responsibilities. We consistently seek ways of improving our processes. Starting with the 2025-2026 school year, the Mount Horeb Area School District has added a new visitor management system, Visitor Aware, to the robust criminal background check we already employ.