Our Behavior Basics focus this week was dealing with changes in schedule. Changes happen all the time, but if we remain calm, that makes the change easier to deal with. Sometimes we know when there will be a change, and sometimes changes are a surprise. As much as we all enjoy our predictability and routines, we also have to practice how to handle changes. I told the kids that I was surprised to find a big change when I arrived at school on Monday morning. The upper el playground had been disassembled and removed over the weekend. We would have to come up with some new things to do at recess time. Popular choices included bubbles, balls, swinging, and even some dancing. We are all excited to see when they will start putting together the new playground. I love reading the compliments that the kids write each other every week. They each choose who they want to write to and I've been impressed about how they are putting thought into what they write. They have also started reading their compliments to each other and it's fun to see how proud of themselves they feel for receiving the compliment. Enjoy the rest of this week's pictures! Not pictured but also notable- we started our first chapter book as a read aloud, so I am curious to see how that goes. We also started talking about the water cycle in science, introducing four pretty big vocabulary words: precipitation, collection, evaporation, and condensation. We have a 10-15 minute choice time coming back from lunch that helps the kids settle into the afternoon. Most of the kids choose to draw on paper or a white board and I find some of the best creations during this time. I loved this letter from Joey to Ella (he did clarify that it was himself being swept away in the tornado...). Choice time is also one of the only times that silly scripting is allowed and Jack and Sasha collaborated on the white board with a creation of a favorite silly script. I also located some pictures of Joey from the Runathon. I had tossed my phone to my husband to take pictures and forgot that my 5 year old, Oliver, was taking pictures (HUNDREDS!!!) on my husband's phone. Glancing through those, I was happy to find photos of Joey!
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