Hello Lyme Lower School Families!
After a WISE hiatus, It’s the return of Stanton Time.
The two weeks prior to break, we had our wonderful WISE educators join us to help us learn about taking care of our bodies, who safe and trusted adults are, and how to continue having safe and healthy relationships with people in our lives - as always, students were respectful, inquisitive, and had a fun time. WISE <3 LYME and LYME <3 WISE. Thanks to Izzy and Eesha for joining us and we can’t wait to see you again next year.
Our kindergarten friends started to think and talk about feelings and emotions - how all feelings are ok and how feelings affect our body and our choices. We will be starting an online program called Emotional ABCs. This is an evidence-based social emotional curriculum that was developed with psychologists, therapists, and educators and uses careful step-by-step strategies to help children better manage their emotions. The program closely follows guidelines outlined by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). It is very fun and interactive and I think the students will enjoy mixing this into their Stanton Time!
First Graders are wrapping up their Zones of Regulation Unit - ask your kiddos what zone they think they might be in and if they need calming or an alerting tool!
Second Graders are going to be wrapping up their self-control unity with the greatly anticipated Marshmallow Challenge - They will get to join the ranks of the 2nd Graders who have come before them after successfully completing it!
Third graders are just about to wrap up their Compassion Project and Upstander Ed Units and will be working on a poster for Upstander Awareness that we’ll be posting around school to help educate others.
Fourth Grades are continuing to be challenged by presented initiatives and "conundrums" where they have to problem solve together and reflect on their collaborative Recipe for Success. Class Dojo has GREAT conundrums, or a problem that has no clear, direct, or good solution, that groups worked together on - check em out as a family and have some GREAT discussions. Students talked about how everyone's values, opinions, past experiences all play a part in how we approach situations. Our challenge was to hear others' perspectives with an open mind and see how can agree or agree to disagree in a respectful manner.
Fifth graders started their digital citizenship unit - they came up with their own definition of what “Digital Citizenship” means - their collaborative definition: A community of people who are kind, helpful, and safe on or off the internet while using a device. Couldn’t think of a better one, myself! We’ll be using a platform called Digital Passport where students will work together and play games that will help reinforce other aspects of digital citizenship which online safety, privacy protection, being a cyber upstander, and more!
