All About Owls and Red and Green Choices

We did a lot of reading about owls this week. We learned that owls are nocturnal birds of prey and that they take good care of their baby owlets. We read this story on Monday and talked about how the owls felt when their mom was gone. Many children were able to identify the feeling of "sad" with the blue zone and the feeling of "scared" with the yellow zone. When the mother owl returned, the owlets were back in the green zone. 

After the story, we created this multi-step art project... it involved painting and putting words in order to build a sentence about owls. I can see real progression in our students' skill development. We worked hard on "watching" at group when the lesson was shown and the directions were given. 

This was another tricky, multi step creation that involved some round cutting. 

In our social skills lesson we began talking about green choices and red choices. We learned that green choices help us stay in the green zone, and red choices can cause problems for us. We worked together to create these charts - it is interesting how often the children come up and study them.  We will keep them up to help us really think about our behaviors. We continued to work on our learning target of ''watch the teacher or lesson" this week, and we are adding a new target - "I can turn my work in to the green basket with my name on it". 

We work hard each day on building our reading or pre-reading skills.  We feel very proud of our progress! 

***REMINDER - Monday is Halloween and a half day of school. Students may wear their costume to school that day. We will have a parade at 10:15, followed by a simple party in our classroom.