We had a great first week!!!

     We had a really busy first week of school with a lot of focus on learning how to be learners. This takes time, teaching and practice - it does not happen overnight or by magic! We understand that these things are new for your children, and that they will make mistakes during the learning process. The great thing about mistakes is that they help us learn to change our behavior. We use these pictures to help remind us of the things we do to be a learner...listen, watch, voices quiet, body in control.

     Our first coping skill of the year was deep breathing. We practiced sniffing a flower and blowing out a candle slowly...deep breathing helps us slow down, get calm and think. 

We introduced the letter A and B, the color yellow,  and the numeral 1. 

We read books about our names and worked on writing our names. We made yellow school buses for our color word. 

We read several "NO, David" books and talked about what it means to be a peacemaker. 

 

We had many lessons and discussions about the green zone (from the Zones of Regulation curriculum). We learned that when we are calm and ready to listen and work we are in the green zone. Our bodies are in control and people feel comfortable around us. We added some photographs of examples to our Zones Board. 

A new classmate joined our classroom on Thursday, so now we are a group of nine boys! We used our "green zone" bins for the first time today!

Have a really wonderful long weekend. We will see the boys back next Tuesday - we will be reading "Pete the Cat" books all week! 

Reminder... Curriculum Night for parents is on Wednesday September 12 at 6:00 in our classroom.