Snow stories

We welcomed 2016 and winter by reading stories about snow and creating some fun snow art. We used Epsom salts to create "frost" on our snow pictures, and we used marshmallows to paint snowmen. We read  "The Snowy Day" and made the boy in the story, Peter. We enjoyed two Jan Brett books, "The Hat" and "The Mitten" and created art work to go with those books too. In our journals we wrote about snowmen and winter clothes.

In our social skills lessons we have focused on reviewing coping skills -naming them, modeling them, and deciding which ones are good for which situations. The kids are getting really good at this! We had some lessons on empathy and we learned that empathy means you can imagine how someone else is feeling. We have also been talking about feedback and how the information we get from feedback helps us to make good changes and to get better at things.

On Thursday we went to our Loon Lake Leader of the Month assembly. Here is our leader for December - the character trait was resiliency. This month we are focusing on responsibility. 

Please remember to write your child a letter and send it back in to me before January 25 when we begin our letter writing unit. I would like each child to have a letter from their parent -much thanks!