Welcome to our monthly family connection where you can find updates on what your students are learning with the counselor, our schoolwide Team program, monthly life skill connection to home, as well as other topics as they arise.
Counselor Connection:
We are off to a great start for the school year. I enjoy going into each classroom every week to do a lesson with all the students! We focus on one of three areas with every lesson- social, emotional, and academic. I will be sharing monthly what each grade level is working on so that you can reinforce these skills at home. I encourage you to ask them about the “I Can” statements we review each week!
With our life skill being respect for the month of September, we focused our first few lessons in 2nd-5th grades on the importance of respect and how we can show respect for others at school, at home, and in the community. We also created a respect chain! In Kindergarten and 1st grade, we focused on and practiced our listening skills, which we connected to showing respect for others.
For all grades, we also tied respect in with being responsible.
If you ever have questions, feel free to contact me at any time! ~ Ms. Jones
Schoolwide Team Update:
We are continuing our schoolwide Team program with a few updates. This program allows our students to develop skills and build relationships with students across grade levels. Students can earn HAWKS stickers for their Team by showing the HAWKS expectations of honesty, attitude of respect, work ethic, kindness, and safety. This year instead of Teams competing for the highest number of stickers every month, all Teams will be working together to meet a monthly and end of school year goal. There will be whole school rewards each month for meeting the goal, and a trip to Midway Lanes for bowling at the end of the year for meeting the school year goal.
Team meetings will be held 1-2 times per month where there is a focus on the life skill of the month and building relationships. This year the life skills will change each month and will feature a culture that values the chosen life skill. We will also be doing Team lunches again most months where members of each Team eat and have recess together.
In August we focused on strengthening our school spirit, and in September we focused on the life skill of respect. Each Team completed their own unique Team chant and pennants and voted on 2 Team Council members to represent their Team.
In October we will shift our focus to the life skill of teamwork, and we will learn more about the culture of Guam and how they use teamwork in their daily lives.
Monthly Expectations Connected to Home:
Developing teamwork within a family will help strengthen your relationship with your children and will provide a good example for teamwork in activities outside the family home. Project Management for Parents has ideas of activities you can do at home to help your child further develop the life skill of teamwork.
