March Blew In!

We learned this poem this week:
     March roars in like a lion
     With a bluster and a slam!
     And tiptoes out gently
     Like a quiet little lamb.

Ms. Marlowe came and saw our poem and turned it into a song for us!
Here are our lions and lambs...we hope to see lamb weather before too long!

We also began our Day/Night and nocturnal animal unit this week. We asked Miss Vella what a "nocturne" was and learned that it is a piece of night music. We will be reading and learning about all kinds of nocturnal animals in the weeks ahead, and making a special nocturnal animal booklet.

In our Skills for Learning lesson we learned that it is important to calm down first before you solve a problem. Then you need to use words to solve the problem. We learned that it is important to think of lots of solutions to the problem - not just one!  We have been doing a lot of role plays and even diagrams of how we can solve a problem. We anticipate when we might need to calm down and solve a problem, and which coping skill will help us calm down. Many children have begun to really use these strategies and have moved up on our Coping Skills Rubric!