Fairy Tales and Field Trips

We are getting excited about our Field Trip to Wonderland Bowling Lanes next Tuesday morning. This will be a good opportunity for us to practice the behaviors and self control we have learned in our classroom while in a different setting. We will be sure to share many photos!
We are also beginning to work on an end of the year celebration that we will do with Dr. Cohen's class and Miss Ross's class.  We will be sharing some of our learning about coping skills and the zones of regulation on June 2 at 2:00. We hope you will all be able to join us!
We have continued with our fairy tale unit -we can identify many elements of a fairy tale, such as repeating phrases, magic, settings such as castles and forests, good and bad characters and animals who talk or are magical. This week we read "Rapunzel" and "The Princess and the Pea" among other tales. This class loves fairy tales! Here are our Jack in the Beanstalks...our own beans are beginning to sprout!

In our social skills lessons we worked on how to focus - we decided that we need to look at our work and to work quietly. We also need to sit up instead of turning around when we work. We learned that we need to "close the file" on things like video games when we want to focus on our work. We can tell ourselves that we can think about non-work things after we are finished. We can get our work done faster and smarter when we focus. Here are some students who are focusing on their work:

We also have been working on saying, "OK" when a direction is given, both at home and at school. We made a chart about the size of a problem and our reaction to a problem. We learned that when our reaction is much bigger than the problem, people around us feel uncomfortable. We are practicing thinking about the size of the problem in terms of how serious it is and how easy it could be to fix. 

Loon Lake is having a Slumber Read In on Thursday April 2 - your child may wear their pajamas to school that day. (Remember, we will have recess outside.) 

The marking period ends next week and report cards will be printed and sent home after spring break on April 15.