Is your student a Kinder or Second grader?
This School year Ms. Bassett and Mr. Smith, with the support of teachers, will be facilitating guidance lessons in Kinder and First grades around the topic of Whole Body Listening. The idea behind Whole Body Listening is to teach our children that we use more than just our ears to listen to a speaker. We use our whole body. We use our eyes to look at the person talking, our ears to hear, our mouths quiet, our hands, feet and bodies still, our brain thinking about what's being said and our hearts caring about what the person is saying. Practicing whole body listening can help us all learn to communicate better. If you have time try practicing this with your little one and have them teach you. Acting out the eight skills and how they work together and need each other is a lot of fun.
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Parents........ Meet Whole Body Listening Larry. As shown and explained above, Larry's character helps teachers, counselors and staff visually explain Whole Body Listening to our K through 2nd graders. On the left side of the screen is the Whole Body Listening worksheet the FTE counselors handed out during your child's guidance lesson in September. Please feel free to print your own copy to test, refresh or work with your child to help these skills develop, strengthen and grow. The FTE counselors also integrated the use of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head to make the Whole Body Listening Lesson more visual, fun and hands on. Good luck and have some family fun.
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Second grade students will be flying into the Superflex curriculum.
Superflex is a superhero people have in their minds to help them use strategies to promote self-regulation, social thinking, and related social skills. Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum was first published in 2008, and is a colorful, kid-friendly Social Thinking curriculum created for K-5 students. It’s paired with a cute comic book that introduces the concept of the Team of Unthinkables, characters that represent the different ways our brain has not-so-flexible thinking in social situations. The first comic focuses on the very common Unthinkable, Rock Brain, who gets kids stuck on just one thing and thwarts their superflexible thinking. |
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