World Kindness Day: Is This Really Important? It's November and time to celebrate kindness! We are into our second quarter providing high quality instruction!! Students are learning, behaviors are optimal, and we have a true learning family!! You're thinking, "This…
Using children's literature as a social emotional learning example is a great way to build social, emotional, and literacy skills. Â I love when I can use one book for so many engaging lessons and build my classroom community. Whether you…
How many of you have ever had a child that has troubles making mistakes? When a mistake is made the student has a hard time dealing with the consequences. What about that child that takes a long time to complete…
One of my favorite back to school lessons is "A Caring Being". This is a great social emotional lesson that I implement the first week of school. This lesson builds upon the Learning Guidelines Lesson. Now that students have…
New School Year . . . Fresh Start Beginning a new school year is an opportunity to start fresh: a new beginning, new teacher, new friends. With all these "new things", this can also be a time of uncertainty, nervous…