A busy week with Seuss, nouns and leprechauns...

Look who visited our classroom! We loved reading all sorts of Dr. Seuss books this week!

Our social skills lessons focused on using positive self talk to help with strong feelings like anger and jealousy. We practiced bumping out a upset/negative thought and bumping in a good/positive thought. Positive self talk engages the thinking part of the brain and helps divert student's attention from negative self-talk, which can escalate strong feelings. We are working hard on using coping skills instead of other things that may cause the problem to get bigger. We also are working hard to re-frame mistakes as opportunities to get feedback and make changes.
We learned that nouns are words that name people, places or things - we all identified some nouns in a  little bird book we made.
We also had time for some leprechaun fun...we even found little letters from a leprechaun outside our fairy door. Some days there were treats...and today there was a container full of magic powder! We were left a note that said to add milk and shake the container, repeating some leprechaun words. When we were done, we had a special treat to eat!