Persevering and more

Last week Mrs. Brady shared this clip of a young girl who just learned to ride her bike.  Her dad asked her if she had any advice for others.  Her message is a powerful one.  We used this clip to talk about how to create positive self talk when we approach something hard.  Here is our poster of the positive things we can say to ourselves.  Watch the video with your child and ask them what positive message they will say in their head when trying something new or hard!

 

This week she read us the book Salt in His Shoes.  This true story about Michael Jordan is all about trying hard, practicing, not giving up and having patience.








During You Skills we talked about how we can be Allies and Upstanders.  First Mrs. Nelson showed some photographs showing children in difficult social situations.  We brainstormed solutions.  Then she read us the book Nobody Knew What to Do.  Again, we brainstormed solutions.

Then we signed an Ally Pledge!

In reading we are practicing how to read with a partner.

Domino Games in Math

Dominoes are a great tool for sharing different addition strategies.

How many dots in all?

Mathematicians shared their strategies with us and others revoiced.  

Magic Dominoe Squares-this will be their math homework next week.

Persevering to publish-writers are using checklists to revise and edit their stories as part of our publishing project.

 They LOVE yoga!  They choose to do this on their own whenever there is time to read from the bookshelf!

Sharing this month has been so fun!  Here are some Autumn treasures that have been shared so far.