Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Spirit Week
Spirit Week: The week of April 16-20 is Spirit Week at Union Memorial School. Each day has a special theme and the kids have a lot of fun with it every year. A flyer will be sent home the week before as a reminder. Here are the days:
Monday – Hat Day (wear your favorite hat)
Tuesday – Favorite T-shirt Day (wear your favorite T-shirt)
Wednesday – School Colors Day (wear blue and green clothes)
Thursday – "Fill a Bucket" Day (give a friend a compliment)
Friday – Pajama/Picnic Lunch (wear your pajamas and we have a
"Picnic Lunch" outside – weather permitting)
Red Clover
Red Clover Afternoon and Evening: A Red Clover afternoon and evening will be held on Thursday, April 19. The afternoon program is for the students and staff to celebrate the Red Clover books. In the evening from 6:30-7:30pm, families are invited to come to school and enjoy various art activities that highlight the books. This program, named after Vermont's state flower, is sponsored by the VT Center for the Book and the VT Departments of Education and Libraries. Ten picture books are nominated by a committee of educators every year. Our students have heard all ten books and have voted for their favorite. More than 25,000 children in Vermont voted last year. Please join us for a wonderful evening.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
GUIDANCE NEWS
Second Grade Guidance Update
We have just finished up our guidance unit on managing angry feelings. We have discussed that angry feelings are OK but that it is not OK to do something hurtful with your anger. This unit focuses on ways to calm down before trying to solve a problem.
We have talk about how when we are upset we do not think as clearly as when we are calm. Ways to calm down are taking a few deep breaths, counting, walking away, talking to someone about how you feel and telling yourself to calm down. We have spent some time talking about how powerful our self-talk is in either calming down or staying angry. Gentle reminders about this may be helpful at home.
We will now move on to Problem Solving and practicing problem solving steps. We will review KELSO’s Choices which are 9 strategies to use to solve common social problems between kids. These strategies are: 1.) go to another game, 2.) talk it out, 3.) share and take turns, 4.) tell them to stop, 5.) ignore, 6.) apologize, 7.) make a deal, 8.) walk away, 9.) wait and cool off.
Your children are doing a great job and I love working with them!
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