Valentine's Week

We worked on a new coping skill this week - Bump in Your Happy Thought. 
Sometimes we can change our grumpy mood by thinking about something that makes us feel happy. Students were able to easily name things that make them smile...we wrote about those happy thoughts in our journal. 

We continued to work on letter writing, and read a funny book called "I Wanna Iguana". In this story, a boy writes his mother persuasive letters to see if she will let him get an iguana. His mother writes him back with the reasons she might say "no". In the end, the boy did get his iguana! We wrote about pets we wish we could get too. 

We were surprised on Wednesday with exciting news! Our 3 EI programs received a mini-grant from the WL Foundation for Excellence! This mini grant will help offset future field trips to the bowling alley and the Outdoor Center. We are so lucky to have the generous support of our district Foundation for Excellence! 

Valentine's Day was really special. We loved opening up all of our valentine cards and we enjoyed eating some healthy and yummy snacks with our friends. 

I hope you all have a wonderful Mid-Winter Break! We return to school on the 100th day of school! We will finish up our letter writing unit that week, and get ready for March, a Dr. Seuss author study, and March is Reading Month!