Classroom Guidance 9/23 - 10/5 2009

Kindergarten:

We are talking about feelings and why they are important. We are learning that noticing and thinking about the feelings of others helps us have more friends and get along better.

1st Grade:

We are learning how our actions and choices impact other people.

2nd Grade:

We are talking about how to be a person you can be proud of.

3rd Grade:

We are learning about dealing with conflicting feelings. We are also discussing what makes people become leaders, and how students can become leaders here at school.

Classroom Guidance 9/8 - 9/17

Kindergarten:

We are learning how helpful we can be with our hands. We learned that our hands are not for hurting. We promised not to use our hands or our words to hurt other people.

1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade:

We are learning and practicing strategies to effectively handle people who bug us.

Classroom Guidance 8/24/09 - 9/3/09

I have already met with every classroom in these first few weeks. In my lesson we are working on empathy and perspective taking. Empathy requires identifying other people’s feelings. Perspective taking involves realizing people can see the same situation differently. Children begin to see how their words and actions impact other people. This lays the groundwork for developing the important social skills that we will be working on this year. We learned clues to watch for so we can see how other people are feeling. We talked about ways we can make our school a caring school.